that tends to contract the city's economy. so, the net economic effect that we will get to is really the relative weighing of these two factors, the expansion of spending and the contraction of employment. there has been a lot of interest in san francisco's experienced in its 2004 increase of the minimum wage. it was quite a large one year increase of the minimum wage of about 26%. however, if you look at the employment numbers, and i'll go through both the employment and wage numbers right now, some of the low-wage industries in the city which would have been expected to hit hardest by the minimum wage increase like retail trade and restaurants actually declined more slowly than the city as a whole in 2004, were actually added jobs despite the minimum wage increase. san francisco as a city was still recovering from the recession in 2004 and across the board there were job losses. but as you'll see in a moment, the job losses he were either slower than some of these industries or these industries actually added jobs despite a

as with all residential bond issuances, the city will need to comply with city contracting provisions as well as standard loan cd affordable housing guidelines for the affordable unit. and i'm not sure it's related -- not? okay. so, matt wood of related california is available to answer any questions you have as well as you can answer -- ask any questions of me. this concludes staff reports. and i'm so sorry i had to run. >> no worries. thank you for being here. much appreciated. we have no report on 25, right? okay. no questions at this time. we'll open this up to public comment. anybody wish to comment on item number 25? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> so move approval of the resolution. >> okay. we can take it without objection. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item 26, please? >> item number 26, resolution approving an exclusive negotiation agreement and letter of intent with related california urban housing, llc, for the potential city purchase of an office building to be developed at 1500-1580 mission street at an estimated purchase price of $253,000,000 an

mexico city was one of the dirtiest cities in the world. but the environmental policies of the last 25 years have led to a significant reduction in pollution. the good news is that this trend is set to continue. and that, despite the fact that the city's still growing. >> but another solution is taking root, too. biologist jerÓnimo reyes works at mexico's largest public research university, the unam. he's planted an 800-square-meter garden on the roof of a private school. the building is located right in the city center. rooftop gardens like these have become increasingly popular in mexico city. >> there's no space down below for parks or gardens like these. mexico city is overpopulated and there's nowhere to plant green areas like this. but they're just what the city needs, because the plants produce oxygen and capture pollutants. >> in summertime, the layer of vegetation helps cool the buildings down. and in winter, they provide some insulation, so that less heating is required. most of the plants here are succulent, meaning they store mo

of the major cities. this picture here is a barnstorming picture. you can see the towns' teams they knew how great the monarchs were and most -- a ball player can recognize another ball player, no doubt about it. so when they saw the kansas city monarchs they recognized how good these players were. and this picture right here, this game was played in blue rapids kansas. that's the 1939 and that shows how popular they were, teams were willing to pose with the kansas city monarchs and this is at a time when racial divide could be pretty tough. but the kansas city monarchs were welcomed almost every place they went. so because of his great innovations, j.l. wilkinson we have pictured here is now a member of the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york. one of his pitchers -- i might mention wilkinson also when they organized the negro national league he was the only white manager in the league or white owner in the league and how that came about was because in 1911 he organized a team called the all na

city was not in compliance and the city to comply with state law. i put this on the monitor to address the second point the city wants to address that somehow at&t explicitly waved its rights to comply with indicting can. the first is snauflt you can't explicitly wave a law you have in writing. the second point sfauflt you can't explicitly wave statute rights i can't wave my right to council rights that are granted by statutes have a high-level of protection the city wants to argue we waved our right to have state law they don't provide legal citations that support such an argument. the next point? city's brief i'd like to address it is important for the way the board conducts business occurs on page 10 with your permission i'm going to read the paragraph. the brief states at&t argues that dependings denials for the excavation permits vicinity public utilities this argument is not before the board the board lacks the power to declare the ordinance unconstitutional or to refuse to regulate a statute ordinance. this statement of law is half correct. s

hall thank you favoring and to our own city attorney's office john gibner, deputy city attorney andthe mayors other team and staple jason and the entire team that works closely with the board of supervisors. thank you all we're all proud of the budget two years running we passed it this year earlier and on time and passed consensus on time thank you and thank you to all for being here (clapping) >> and let me add my personal thanks to harvey i asked for the county of los angeles we question got it. this is just a budget document i know it reflects a lot of what we worked hard at planning for. what we do do outside this budget document can challenge the dedicate balance but i have faith the people that carry out the budget most of who is standing here are going to do us proud i ask not only celebrate the budget but the people who are going to carry out the budget to the city departments you're going to make sure we carry this out. are we ready to sign. all right. let's do it (clapping) want up close? (laughter) all right. and today is july 23rd >> 23rd. there you go done >> good morn

deputy city attorney. i wasn't here for tonight's sunshine referral but was it represented during that matter that they had weighed in on that issue? >> it was represented that the deputy city attorney at the time with the task force advised the task force to name the particular underlings in the department as being the responsible ones for the violation, and that's what they did and i see in the language itself of the ordinance it says specifically that the underlings cannot be held to be the responsible parties. it says that. that the responsible party is the department head, so then at some point it's understood with this well, we should really name the department head and the representatives of that department come here before us and say you're violating due process. our department head is just named now at this stage of the proceedings after the task force has already made a finding of the violation relating to those underlings and he was never named so we had it twice. we dealt with this tonight but

it was just adjacent to the mayor's office in city hall. and the mayor in those days said, i want the station that's right near my office to be the most beautiful, and show what civic pride is able to produce when you're doing public works projects. so this station had beautiful ornamentation. it has vaulted ceilings. it has beautiful colored tiles. it has leaded glass skylights to bring natural light into the station. it has a beautiful oak token booth with an ornate brass grill in front of it. and it has really, even though they're simple railings, there's a really nice design element to these, they are quite charming. the city hall station was closed because as the trains got longer and longer and there's a very, very extreme curve on this station, which you can see from this photo, and when trains expanded from six cars to 10 cars, there was not enough room for that train to come into this station. and it was not safe, because the curve was so strong, so between those cars there was a big gap to get to the platform, plus the entire trai

you're here to hide stuff that you do and other city agencies do. this ethics commission is a waste of the resources used for the operation. it's nothing that the citizens of san francisco could have imagined when voting for the establishment of open government. anyone that wishes to put a minimal effort can examine the record and see that this body has absolutely nothing over the course of its existence to open government and as done everything possible to hide its secrets including illegal actions from the public. three commissioners -- commissioner hur, renne and commissioner hayon are political flacks answerable own to those that appoint them. that is not a personal attack. it is my personal opinion and i base it on years of watching you. you do nothing but protect the people and in my case that was heard without my presence commissioner hayon participated defended the person that was on the opposite side of the case. talked all about the reasons why they were right and why i was wrong and then at the end recused herself to avoid the appearance

they have about 87 state the state gets $0.02 and the city and county gets about one dollar gets maybe about $0.75 per cigarette package according to the health people in atlanta the costs of short end life executivecy and welfare costs from hospitals from cigarette smoking is high about 7 times as much as the county gets san francisco the city and county from the sale of a package. the care of the local homeless corresponding committee in san francisco on the face of it requires the people unless it's a strong excuse who are on the commission to live and or be employed in san francisco. but for about 2, 4 year terms through the city of or county controller this position has begun to a person who lives in berkley and is employed by the children's hospital in oakland. and is h head of one of the numerous grants to the children's hospital there for preliminary care of the person. and it's highly funded to her employer and she's been on the homeless coordinating committee in san francisco and the health department >> thank you, ma'am. >> appreciate our time is up. >> i'll finish a couple

and an b and b i found the mart is a great example of how people in the city come to the city to endure that makes the city great >> george good evening. i'm a tenant in the hate ashbury neighborhood i recently became a single mother and it helped to keep us in our rent control the city that i moved from in 2345067 the city and only apartment he's leader to walk and talk it's starting preschool walking distance if our home and my job from the states judicial council getting accepted into that and off the record a good preschool is only rivaled by getting into and affording a home in san francisco. without the extra home i'll be enforced to live in a studio apartment and sharing an apartment in the destakeholder part of the city and find a new home and surface quality time for a much longer ride to work. awhile home sharing might not be an affordable thing it's a short-term god sent why i wanted to live in this city. the home sharing makes it better for the families across the world to be able to rent a room that is furnished with baby gear and an center bedroom makes it better for famil

so the history we see here is very basic to what new york city is all about and to how new york cityeloped. >> the new york transit museum is a nonprofit organization administered but not funded by the mta, or metropolitan transit authority. you can view this and all other american history tv perhaps at c-span.org/history. cspan.org/history. tvjion american history tonight as we feature archival footage of the new president. we will see his swearing-in in ceremony and his first white house press conference. watch richard nixon's presidency end and gerald ford's begin on american history tv on c-span 3. >> while congress is on break, primetime features a wide range of political views on topics. this week the debate on america's greatness, veteran health care, and detectives from the centers of disease control and prevention. we visit the atlanta press club. and we take a history toward the civil war.t c-span primetime at 8:00 p.m. eastern. let us know what you think. call us at -- us.yoyou can email join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. you are watch

of the city and county for the central city neighborhood; northside publications/marina times to be the neighborhood outreach knew paper of the city and county for the northern san francisco neighborhood; west portal monthly to be the neighborhood outreach newspaper of the city and county for the west portal neighborhood; and potrero view to be the neighborhood outreach knew paper of the city and county for the potrero hill, dogpatch, bayview, soma, mission bay neighborhoods to provide outreach advertising for fiscal year 2014-2015. >> okay, thanks. we have our office of contract administration here. thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman farrell and supervisor mar. thank you for hearing me. my name is deirdre darling. i'm representing the office of contract administration and i'm here requesting your recommendation and approval for a resolution designating certain periodicals of the city's outreach periodical for the upcoming fiscal year. outreach advertising is intended to meet the public information needs of those communities and neighborhoods which may not be adequately served b

out like so many others are because of our economic and wealth gap in the city. lastly i want to say i authorized along with the coworkers this is an issue where workers are not only living paycheck to paycheck but hour to hour and this measure the worker bill of rights will help with the stability of low wage and part time workers in the city. the last point i want to make in my introduction before president chiu gives comments this is extremely good for listing the low wage workers out of poverty but many workers are offered high employment, however, the overall trend in the growing san francisco service sector is employers are looking at to cut costs and that's the low road type of employers we're trying to alter their ability to do that. when they do this that pits the pressure on the good employers to encourage in the same allowing low road cost cutting this drives down a motivation so that's why our workers should be offended full-time hours. i want to say this matter is urgent for our city s it will help us to lift many of the part time and low wage earner

>> the city does. the city has a major commercial paper program. we do not. we issue long term debt. >> yeah. >> we don't issue paper -- >> i just saw the reference there in the policy for commercial paper. >> i don't think the department of finance would [inaudible] get too creative -- >> the reason i know that is because the airport, especially after september 11, commercial paper program was very useful, but that was very different -- >> yeah, we will be exploring financing options in the future if we are unable to sell bonds for our major projects and transbay and we don't have enough money as a pay as you go basis. we have been talk with the city about some sort of relationship and using their debt issuance possibilities if we can get the of to agree to a loan agreement between the city and us. it's just something we're exploring if we don't have other financing options available. >> thank you. okay, i have no other questions. >> commissioner singh, anymore questions? >> no. >> no more questions. >> i move that. >> commissioner singh moves. >> second. >>

they played in more than 90 cities. i'm going to 90 cities. that just scratches the surface of all of the places the kansas city monarchs went. they were great ambassadors for the game. for me my journey started a long time ago. as a child i collected baseball cards an i kind of went nuts with that. so i found out about baseball and i just collecting, collecting, collecting and the collection kept growing and growing. my knowledge grew. so not only did i know about the baseball statistics but the thing that captured me the most were baseball stories. i'd like to read the backs and whatever stories they had andat kept growing. finally this kind of brings me home. here is what happened. i got my first full time job working for alko retail stores. i was out of bounced me around to a few places. i was in colorado springs. al about a kirk albuquerque an up in topeka kansas. someone mentioned there was a kneei negro leaguer who played in topeka. his name was carol ray matho. through that association, he later passed. i decided to do a little tribute

city. >> we are a coastal city. we are also the world headquarters for oil and gas. a significant portion of the u.s. refining capacity is in the greater houston area, and we are in a hurricane zone. we are america's fourth-largest city. we have a direct population, and a regional population that we have to provide resources for. the city of houston is the largest municipal purchaser of electricity, as the headquarters for the oil and gas industry. we understand that it's not incompatible to be concerned about greenhouse gas emissions and reductions and making sure that we have a thriving industry that promotes energy independence. cities across america are doing similar thing, we are increasing the side of electric and hybrid vehicle fleet. we are converting street lights. we launched a programme to convert 165,000 street lights to l.e.d. lights. when that is down we'll save about 28 million a year in direct energy costs to the city of houston. i usually make the saving money argument rath

heart of atlantic city. it opened more than a century ago and is nostalgic and it's fun like this that was the original driving force of this city's economy. based on the crowds you see here, you might never imagine that other aspects of this city's economy are thoroughly in big trouble. [ music ] >> it's late afternoon, and hundreds of casino workers have just finished their day shifts at the trump plaza. in july the famed resort shocked everyone here by announcing it would close at the end of the summer. sales are down 26% from a year ago, putting it in last place among the city's 12 casinos. adding insult to injury, the man who founded it, donald trump, announced he was suing his own partners to get his name removed from the property as well as what used to be the crown jewel of the boardwalk, the trump taj mah mahal. dawn england has been a cocktail waitress at the trump plaza for more than 30 years. since the announcement she's a regular at the rallies leading fight to save more than 1,000 jobs. >> you

and actually, i was and i happen to be here at the city hall to pay my taxes. and i just thought about something and since i am here, and i am coming to tell you, because there is something that i want to share with you. because it was appropriate. and i, in my years, 30 or 40 years in business and government and the city, now, icon included that as when i shared that viewpoint, that it can be obtained by everybody immigrants, all, and everybody, except the african americans and the native indians of america, only. and now, i have a discussion about this with the... and we argued and we did not think that was okay. (inaudible). >> are there any other members of the public that would like to make the comment at this time? >> seeing none, the public comment is closed and i just want to make a few comments, and i grew up in this city, and i have been

streets responsible for 60 percent of the fatality in our city. what we're doing here is a step it's adding up to more than $3 million investment we made along sunset boulevard to make it safe as the mayor said we've been working with the police department and the department of public health to really understand where and judge our collisions happening in order to address the other 6 percent responsible for the 60 percent of fatality collisions and bring the improvements out to the city sewe need the investments in order to do so we're lucky to have as representative of the people felt sunset district as a member of the county of the transportation authority and a member of the board of supervisors someone that understands the importance of making the investments focused on transportation and pedestrian safety and works on the board and the blue print for the district and emerged for the board of supervisors to get this 5 hundred general obligation measure into the ballot so, please join me in welcoming district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a sp

louis city. st. louis city used to be republicans. and then with the political shift it turned democrats. so municipalities you'll have upwards of 65% african-american in population. >> let's talk about the big city to the south and east, has st. louis will had these kinds of politics, these kinds ofens counters because of the difficulty in changing power structures in the place even as the population was changing ? >> yes, that is actually true. st. louis city is 52% in minority population. the current mayor has been there at least the last four election cycles. we have there in the city several elected offices and it's the unspoken rule that certain of them are to be held by non-african-americans and certain of those offices to be held by african-americans. but at a 52% population you would think as a voting power they could control whoever their candidate of choice would be for any office in the elected office of the city of st. louis. >> we have to take another short break. when we come back we'll take a look at the situation in f

her daughter said she is resting comfortably at a new york city city avenue. she experienced cardiac arrest during a threat procedure. she was placed in medically comma for observations and is in stable, but critical condition. >>> tracy morgan's lawyer said it may be months before the comedian can walk again. morgan has been spotted using a walker, but relies on a wheelchair to get around. he had a friend who was killed in the june collision with a walmart truck. morgan filed a lawsuit gains the company. >> a state-run university in pennsylvania is being criticized for allowing student coupons for legal counsel to be offered on campus, a lawyer nearby is offering ten percent off for drug and alcohol offenses. college said the coupons are >> welcome back you're taking a live look there across the delaware into the aquarium there in camden, looking for something to do with the kids on this long weekend. him there's an idea, 5:55, 62 degrees,. >> we may never know what happened to aaron sofer. he was found in a shallow ditch yesterday. there were fears that ther

city we visited you can see more from cities -- c-span city to her on c-span or c-span.org. >> c-span's american history tour continues next friday with stories from the western expansion. see historic sites and hear from authors who have written on the subject, starting at 90 4 p.m. eastern on c-span. 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. lifee native american closes off with a trip to palm springs, california. in the 1950's. womenwas the first all tribal council. about indiansbook in palm springs. >> it is an interesting thing after my father died, there was a meeting that she wanted to attend and palm springs. i took off work and drove her down. i don't know, i guess i spoke up and said something. the next thing i know is we have not election, a yearly election. call the next day saying that i had been elected as a member of the tribal council. i was floored. i couldn't believe it. in our localtart politics. >> she transformed this tribe in a way that no one can deny. the ramifications of her efforts and palm springs have many impacts across the country. what she was doing here was setting in

fourth the collection of all taxes relevant to this activity that is a source of new revenue for the city as well as enforcement itself. now our proposal the genesis of the legislation the underlying value of the legislation to address the city's affordability crisis how can we live in our city of 7 by 7 miles it addresses it in two receptors first of all, we know that the status quo of what we see with sharing housing is pushing san franciscans out of your city we've seen instances of landowner ellis act the full building for rental i want to agree with the city attorney those are situations that need to be pursued under the law. but on the other hand, i note we know there are xrirg tenant that have entered into multiple units and they lease out other units for a bed people's 3 and breakfast those are not doing activity i that support that will establish an enforcement structure if you're using a shareable housing to allow housing to be used aren't year as vacation rentals or bed-and-breakfast i could be fined that's one of the portion. on the other hand, it's any prospective and i think

to date, you don't see no i mean that the people are coming into the city from out of the city, getting the jobs from the residence here and i don't think that there is a compliance officer, looking at the employment of how you assign the people to work on these jobs. i know that is not concerning this matter but i wish that you would look like that too. >> are there any other members that would like to make public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. >> colleagues, any other questions? >> all right. so, can i have a motion to continue this to the call of the chair? >> so moved. >> okay. >> without objection? this item is continued to the call of the chair. >> madam clerk, could you call the next item please? >>hearing on equity and inclusion in the hospitality and travel related industries including the recent report released by the working group on african american inclusion and diversity in travel and hospitality. >> >> okay, before i turn this over to supervisor cohen i just want to make it clear could you silence your cell phones and could you please cut down

chicago much all cities which is a hyper-connected city connects data on all its citizens, you have tok in to do good against evil doers. we asked our community, is all this good? daniel says, the use of metadata only helps communities and people. but the concern here is privacy. >> yeah, we're going otalk about it. the city of chicago may soon be able to sense what's happening in some of its busies areas. 50 sensors to downtown light poles to aggregate data ranging from noise to other conditions. track things like pedestrian movements. researchers say the information will improve city planning and while it will be available to the public via an open-data website some are concerned about the scope of the collection. and broader implications when with it comes to privacy. joins e-joining us is charlie, a scientists working on the chicago sensor project. john, currently president of the engineering firm positive energy practice, which promotes environmentally responsible design. and here in washington, d.c. justin brook little, center of democracy and technology. charlie, about 50 sensor

i am so excited to be able to have this role here to serve the city and i have two daughters. they are 12 year old and five year old and we have been using the park a lot in san francisco for years so i want to be here to make sure in the future so you can enjoy it. thank you so much. >> congratulations commissioner wei and welcome to the commission. i would like to read the mayor's address on attendance. this is for all commissioners. in an effort to set standards for board and attendance i would like to take the opportunity at the beginning of fiscal year 2014-15 to remind you of the attendance set forth in my office which is the mayor's office, all of which are consistent with the expectations of the community you represent and serve. i believe that consistent attendance by commissioners allows each appointed body to function effectively and advance department goals as well as to reflect your commitment to the people of the city and county of san francisco. therefore in an effort to remind all of the standards to which they are held i ask that commission presidents share wi

i'm really proud proud to thinking be in a community that love the city who love sharing the city and making experience for your vufrt visitors a great thing and wanting them to come back again and again we are about creating great experiences. the long term versus short term this didn't seem to be the issue we create wonderful experiences for people whoa whether they stay for 39 days or less or more. the aspect of this i get refused if you do a poor job you get reviewed as a guest if you come in and are a nuisance no one wants you. and the problems i see railway happen. i think it should be fair to hear in the future. thank you >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm a resident homeowner and property owner landlord for the last 22 years in the city i own who did you police vehicles is in the valley there are private tenants and innovate duplex in hate ashbury. i have rented my unit to young people for the last 14 years. when my children two of them who went to the public schools to the east coast i having had an empty nest to support their tuition and housing and other competitions s

many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can t

center city right now 62 degrees. katy zachry is watching a bit of a mess this morning in some areas. good morning. >> good morning. we're keeping an eye on overturned tractor-trailer affecting drivers from route 1 southbound trying to get on 76 westbound. you can see a live look at the scene right now. i'll have the alternate route for you coming up. first, jesse gary is live at center city at the made in america music festival. >> reporter: traffic impact here too. road closures for the festival coming up this weekend and also some security concerns and instructions if you happen to bring a certain item. i'll tell you what that item is coming up after the break. >>> breaking traffic news this morning. a live look at i-76 and the boulevard. a tractor-trailer carrying eggs overturned. the driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. crews are trying to clean up the mess before the rush begins. >>> labor day weekend is here. the unofficial end of summer. hard to believe a live look at cape may where many peopl