league of cities. think how many more are not members that have no. >> next we are going to joey garrison of "usa today." >> a couple of questions. the budget shortfall that cities are experiencing, said largely a result of the smaller sales tax intake or what is the revenue stream that is falling short that is resulted on this pandemic. >> let me take a stab at that and if someone else wants to add. >> i will jump in mayor when you get done. >> the mayor and i have visited around 15 different states. it depends. in ohio it's an income tax issue. when people are working that affects cities and places like new orleans it's a sales tax issue in the north carolina because they just cut them off. a lot of their funding goes to states and cities. each place has it different unique situation on their taxing structure but at the end of the day 10 million americans out of work, those are front-line workers that maybe her buying anything and they certainly are paying income tax or they are not staying -- paying

city department? also to know that it's a complicated system. some of the city departments also have commission oversight and with expertise and jurisdiction all under the umbrella of the administrator's office. i have the opportunity to really get some support from our budget analyst office to provide me a memo to navigate the concern about the city administrator's office. not just under city administrator but over the years, how it's really structured and would like for you to talk about that in terms of this role of how do you envision the city administrator's role overseeing the city departments along with commission and accountability and oversight? thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan. big question, for sure. i think a few things. when i think about the role as city administrator, it is certainly different and much more expansive than my role as assessor. i think in every single public service role that i've been in, my ethos is really that, there's always more we can do to do better to make

city department? also to know that it's a complicated system. some of the city departments also have commission oversight and with expertise and jurisdiction all under the umbrella of the administrator's office. i have the opportunity to really get some support from our budget analyst office to provide me a memo to navigate the concern about the city administrator's office. not just under city administrator but over the years, how it's really structured and would like for you to talk about that in terms of this role of how do you envision the city administrator's role overseeing the city departments along with commission and accountability and oversight? thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan. big question, for sure. i think a few things. when i think about the role as city administrator, it is certainly different and much more expansive than my role as assessor. i think in every single public service role that i've been in, my ethos is really that, there's always more we can do to do better to make

cities are people. working from home doesn't spell the end of urban life because cities aren't merely a collection of jobs. cities are people. cities are passion. culture, vibrancy and change. look, we san fransiscans have thick skin. we'll show the rest of you how we bounce back. when you get restless and want to come dance to live music or see steve curry do his thing on the court, eat at the best restaurants, drink at the best bars, start your next business, host a convention right here, or just watch the giants from your kayak, we'll be happy to have you. san francisco has always been and will continue to be a magnet, a destination, a place that draws people. we are the city of pride. today, with hard lessons learned and so much yet to do, i believe we are at the start of an incredible recovery. we aren't just going to repair. we're going to reinvigorate. to come back even stronger. we will put people back to work. our businesses will flourish. opportunities will expand. and as we do all of that, ou

and ladies and gentlemen, i am so honored to introduce the next city administrator for the city and countycisco, assessor recorder carmen chu. >> good morning, everybody. first off, i just want to say thank you so much, mayor breed, for your confidence in me. i am humbled and i'm honored by your nomination, so thank you so much for this opportunity. >> thank you. >> if confirmed by the board, of course, i look forward to working not only with you but also with the board to make sure that we continue to move san francisco forward. i want to speak a little bit about my parents as i start off with the this. my parents were immigrants. mayor breed spoke about this a little bit ago, and my parents had a small restaurant and we all grew up, my sisters and i, working in that restaurant. i tell you this and i share this with you because so much of our service and so much of what we do in life is grounded by our life experiences. how we were raised. the people who loved us. those who supported us. those were part of our lives. and what they taught me was the importance of making sure that we provid

which is happening in a coma city and other cities in stockton and other cities in the country. i think what we have to do as mayor said, i am sorry mayor lincoln for cannibalizing the beginning of the interview because i have to leave early but he said we have to reinvested quality of life and make quality of life investments, this is not a virtual background. it's wonderful to have a great weather, we obviously highlight, but you can have great parks you need have a tremendous art scene, we have one of the largest art festivals in the world, tremendous private galleries, we have all thes sports venues we will be one of two cities in the u.s. that will have major league soccer, hopefully in miami in the next year, we have all of the major sports but we create a quality of a life dynamic as mayor said that makes us attractive and what you alluded to which is true in the virtual world in a world where everyone is working remotely, you can live where you want to lively not like where yu feel like you have to live and i think miami is doing very well in that tradition particular in

and ladies and gentlemen, i am so honored to introduce the next city administrator for the city and county of san francisco, assessor recorder carmen chu. >> good morning, everybody. first off, i just want to say thank you so much, mayor breed, for your confidence in me. i am humbled and i'm honored by your nomination, so thank you so much for this opportunity. >> thank you. >> if confirmed by the board, of course, i look forward to working not only with you but also with the board to make sure that we continue to move san francisco forward. i want to speak a little bit about my parents as i start off with the this. my parents were immigrants. mayor breed spoke about this a little bit ago, and my parents had a small restaurant and we all grew up, my sisters and i, working in that restaurant. i tell you this and i share this with you because so much of our service and so much of what we do in life is grounded by our life experiences. how we were raised. the people who loved us. those who supported us. those were part of our lives. and what they taught me was the importance of making sure th

cities are people. working from home doesn't spell the end of urban life because cities aren't merely a collection of jobs. cities are people. cities are passion. culture, vibrancy and change. look, we san fransiscans have thick skin. we'll show the rest of you how we bounce back. when you get restless and want to come dance to live music or see steve curry do his thing on the court, eat at the best restaurants, drink at the best bars, start your next business, host a convention right here, or just watch the giants from your kayak, we'll be happy to have you. san francisco has always been and will continue to be a magnet, a destination, a place that draws people. we are the city of pride. today, with hard lessons learned and so much yet to do, i believe we are at the start of an incredible recovery. we aren't just going to repair. we're going to reinvigorate. to come back even stronger. we will put people back to work. our businesses will flourish. opportunities will expand. and as we do all of that, ou

simply expelled from the city.they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before next . day and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise. which is why it's called noise or new it's noise plots. above the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at $95.00 plots took 3 years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big mess on send the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't let that scare you off it's really worth it. for. some time to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our globe trotters steve hanus he's been visiting colombia's caribbean coast off we go to got. to start things off here in qatar we take part in a free to work to get an overview of the old town and all the things he needs to see except. contessina was founded in 1533 by a spani

the new generation mayors and cities i am excited because we have mayors literally for weeks on the job just got started a mayors doing interesting things dealing with challenges during this challenging time with the pandemic and urban unrest and other challenges that flow from those things. i want to dive right in and hear from them and what they are doing for public policy and the future of our cities but let me do a quick round of introductions. the mayor of miami was selected in 2017 i guess the longest-serving mayor of first-term mayors and previously served as the commissioner for district four at the age of 431 of the youngest in the country the first miami born mayor of the city and has a lot going on we look forward to hearing from you mayor also serving as mayor of oklahoma city since april 2018 the youngest since 1923 congratulations on that the first native with more than 500,000 residents and he served eight years in the senate and oklahoma the newest member to the merrill lynch on - - branch to the most diverse city in america january 2021 he famously served in the marine

so my city of dayton, no money. and many of the cities didn't get it from the states either. estates kept most of it, governors had a different plan. so the direct aid is really, really important to us. that this is directly distributed. and we supported the house plan in the heroes' bill that had the formula for this money to be the cdbg formula. just the formula itself. and as julie mentioned earlier, this formula works very well because it get to those communities and folks most in need. it is a way to get it to small and large communities but gets it to where the need is. have you had a chance to look at the formula for dispersing funds? what are you thinking about that ? mr. deese: thank you for the question. and we are definitely aware of the formula issue. our focus right now is to work with congress, make sure we have your input, and get that balance of state, city, county funding right. we definitely recognize each level of government has these different needs. we also want to work on getting support that actually empowers you all to do what you need to do for your c

cities are people. working from home doesn't spell the end of urban life, because cities aren't merely a collection of jobs. cities are people. cities are passions, culture, vibrancy, and change. but look, we san franciscans have thick skins. so we'll show the rest of you how we bounce back. when you get restless and wan to come dance to live music or to see steph curry do his thing on the court, eat at the world's best restaurants, drink at the best bars, start your next business, host a convention right here at moscone center, or just watch the giants from your kayak, we'll be happy to have you. san francisco has always been and will continue to be a magnet, a destination, a place that draws people. we are the city of pride. today, with hard lessons learned, and so much yet to do, i believe we are at the start of an incredible recovery. we aren't just going to repair. we are going to reinvigorate. to come back even stronger. we will put people back to work. our businesses will flourish. opportunities

our city emergency operations center, or eoc is fully activated to support city-wide coordination, awareness and resource management city-wide for inauguration day. as you've heard, me and many other law enforcement professionals say in the past if you see something, say something. please call us. as always, we remind san franciscans, help protect our city. report what you see, and remember, if you see something, say something. if you witness criminal or suspicious activity, call us. we will come, we will chat. we want everybody to be safe and we want everybody to feel safe. 911 call is an emergency center, 24 hours a day, you can call at any time. and if it's not an emergency, call our nonemergency line at 415-553-0123. 415-553-0123. and as a couple reminders, i want to reiterate what mayor breed said about covid. although we know there are no public safety threats at this time, civil unrest, protests planned in our city, we cannot forget the serious gravity that the covid-19 pandemic has caused in our country. covid won't be taking tomorrow off, so please listen to the mayor, stay at home,

so, i'mjust expecting fourth year running, manchester city. so, i'm just expecting it to bea city.pecting it to be a good and tight affair tonight. it's not just be a good and tight affair tonight. it's notjust the three in a row, it's it's notjust the three in a row, its five in the past seven years or so, they will equal the reports record if they go all the way tonight and then beat the spurs, amazingly considered the league cup for the size of city stature, it should be very low down the list of priorities but it is right up there with the truth is they've got. and she is always been very firm on this, they are determined to win every competition that they are and and this happens to be the first competition that is available to win during the course of the season and so, it is quite a high position for manchester city and that is always reflected in the teams that pep guardiola chooses in this competition, they are not short of full strength and that is helped by the fact that manchester city has got such strength and depth as well. enjoy the game and the final score on bbc ip

cities. looks nice doesn't it of living in a 247 lit up city causes a huge problem especially to those whose health and well being depends on getting a good night's sleep. sky resplendent with stars. something many people around the world are sadly no longer able to enjoy. and. artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in 24 team the skies over hong kong were already 82 times brighter than they might be naturally. we suffer sleep deprivation from too much artificial light including that committed by smartphones. it also disrupts the orientation of nocturnal birds and insects. our energy consumption could also be cut drastically by ensuring responsible outdoor lighting. for starters it would help if advertising signs and building facades weren't to limited on my lawn. and if nighttime lights were used only for the places where it's really needed. some cities have already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fulda in germany it's among the $29.00 places so far

in my city and i suspect in many of yours. now, many of us today are going to talk about things we've had success in the past and hope to have success in going forward. in cincinnati a couple of key things. one, years ago we embraced police community reform and in 2002 we had a collaborative agreement that we call a consent degree that changed the culture of our police and as the biden administration takes over i'm out reaching and hoping to talk to the justicedepartment to encourage them to play the kind of constructive role that the justice department played in cincinnati back in 2001 and 2002 and i say that because i was a city council and the time . my point though is that improving police community relations in my opinion is a predicate to good policing that will in fact reduce violence. second, once that is in place , community engagement, relationship building,reduced arrests , from repeat violent offenders, engagement with things like cease-fire and initiatives to reduce violence that many of you are familiar with, we

they lived in the city for 500 years. then that they were the end of the middle ages when reagan's work was an offer and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews began to increase. their 1st those. that all culminated in 1519 when the approximately 500 people living here were driven out. simply expelled from the city using real. bertha they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before next . day and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise. which is why it's called noise or new noise. of on the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at $95.00 plots took 3 years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big mess on sen the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't let that scare you off it's really worth it. i. tend to hop on over to the other side of

city department? also to know that it's a complicated system. some of the city departments also have commission oversight and with expertise and jurisdiction all under the umbrella of the administrator's office. i have the opportunity to really get some support from our budget analyst office to provide me a memo to navigate the concern about the city administrator's office. not just under city administrator but over the years, how it's really structured and would like for you to talk about that in terms of this role of how do you envision the city administrator's role overseeing the city departments along with commission and accountability and oversight? thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan. big question, for sure. i think a few things. when i think about the role as city administrator, it is certainly different and much more expansive than my role as assessor. i think in every single public service role that i've been in, my ethos is really that, there's always more we can do to do better to make

and safe cities are kind of an extension of smart cities and smart just means basically connected to a network. our technology can recognize the license plate in the car in case there is a criminal in the car our company has employees facial recognition technology in case you have criminals in your city there are cameras that are basically connected to a network and what they do is they allow police to project. police protection essentially. leshin you know china is obsessed with controlling society and one of the tools needed to do that is to see every. things like this 5 years ago there were already quite a few cameras but it was an excessive but in recent years in every chinese city you can see them everywhere everywhere all along the sidewalks there are posts with cameras to capture every pedestrian addictive and some are fitted with lights to take pictures at night to do yanno so these are clearly cameras for the facial recognition of citizens. we help city governments use digital technology to manage the city's better one aspect of the better management is safety. while white o

but also all over the city. so i appreciate you, i look forward to continuing to work and partner with you and i could not be prouder today of this appointment. you, again, are just a phenomenal being and you -- >> clerk: may we have the next caller. >> caller: good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for the time today. i am john anderson, the general manager of the marriott there in beautiful san francisco. just want to call in to say congratulations to the newly elected members of the board as well as the re-elected members. you know, also thank you for your leadership in 2020. i know that it was a very unusual year. we look forward to your leadership as we emerge from the pandemic when it's safe to and then return, obviously, you know, to some of the businesses in san francisco. it's been one of the hardest hit industries in our city is the tourism and hospitality. as, you know, my business is in district 3 so i thank supervisor peskin for your ongoing support. and supervisor walton, congratulations, we look f

david holt, mayor of oklahoma city since 2013, the first native american mayor of oklahoma city and one of the youngest mayors of the city with 500,000 residents that he served eight years in the senate in oklahoma. the newest member of the bench, kevin lincoln just assumed office which the census bureau calls the most diverse city in america, four weeks ago, january of 2021. previously served in the marine corps and during that time was assigned to marine one during the george w. bush 10 year, worked for the community of stockton in a full-time ministry. in our cities, look forward to diving right in. it would be great to hear a little bit about why you ran in the first place, what got you interested in this job and you can address that in due course when you have a chance but i thought i would start with you, francis suarez, something will take you from a set to:30 so hope we get to you first, and deal with questions after the fact, even after he leaves and get back to you but i want to start with you, talk a little bit about what it is like to pursue a dynamism agenda in the middle o

to the twin cities. i think that is a critical thing for our economy. ultimately, all of this, as you know, is about making great places. i hope that you will continue to hold that close and to work, not just within d.o.t., but continue to partnership with holiday and epa across the federal government to focus our efforts on making great places. because i think that is what all of us as mayors are focused on as well. thank you for the opportunity. we are so happy to see here, pete. >> thank you. let me ask the secretary designate. we have come up against the hour. i want to make sure you are ok. we have a few more questions. if it is not ok, it is all right. we just want to check in with you. mr. buttigieg: i can take another three or four minutes and then i will have to excuse myself. that last note was a good one to begin to wrap on in the sense that when you are mayor, you are a walking whole of government approach. you have to think about transit land use, economics come up poverty -- you don't get t

the city attorney that is? >> thank you, member larkin for the question. you're right. we do see this as a global issue that we need to address to have a unified and consistent response to contractors so we are very much in contact with the city attorney and public works construction management team to have a unified response that addresses similar cost issues that come up from the contractors so we are working closely with city city attorney as well as our internal public works staff to make sure we have the same response, consistent response to for all projects. >> great, that's going to be a large exposure throughout the city and it can wind up being a lot of money one way or the other. can you tell me who in the city attorney's office you're working with? >> sure. most construction related issues we work directly with one of the many city attorneys on the construction team. >> say her first name again. >> y-a-u-r-y-a. >> that's a good response. sounds like you're on top of things. that's all i had. have a g

in bavaria the city was founded over 2000 years ago and is one of germany's best preserved medieval city. book was a political center for the holy roman empire. the city landmark is st peter's cathedral it's one of the most important gothic cathedrals in germany and was built in the 13th century. seadrill is famous for its medieval stained glass windows. district and stuck on hold is part of the world heritage site it used to be an independent city before it was incorporated into irgens book in 1024. we are off to our next stop. so this day these modern and social housing estates have been hugely influential in architecture and city planning this world heritage site consists of 6 ensembles designed by architects like. horn or volga glorious in the 1920 s. . the housing estate. it's were well proportioned had modern furnishing and were affordable marking a historic turning point and city planning. the wotton see as one of europe's largest ecosystems an area of 11500 square kilometers connects germany denmark and the netherlands. will. rule. this world natural heritage site is a unique hab

>> deputy city attorney. so as you know, the committee's authority with respect to contracts is to approve them or to reject them and not to impose any amendments to the krotz. -- contracts. that said, if you're looking to change some aspect to the contract, you can give your intention to reject the contract unless the changes are agreed to by the department. it's not clear if the amendments proposed to the contract are ones that d.p.h. feel are feasible and whether they need to go back to the contractor to have a conversation whether they can readjust the contract in the way you're suggesting. that is a question for d.p.h., whether this is a fundamental change that they would have it give some thought to. >> i hate so sound whiney, but we need the contract approved in order to pay the vendor who is not interested in providing services unpaid. that's on us that we could not get everything together, plan for the pandemic, estimate and get here before they overspent what we're able to pay them. but i'm very cog

those cities. i'm giving you three suggestions that weren't discussed and should be just as viable and used here too. >> thank you. any other public comment. please raise your hand if you would like to provide public comment for this item. i don't have any other public comment. anything further from the commissioners. >> it's not often that we do go on record for topics. i think that it might be appropriate in this case to express our feelings based on what we've seen and see sg seeingshortly on the agenda. i guess my recommendation would be somewhat general but express our concerns about what has been happening and to state that we would support the dep in efforts to create deterrence so we don't continue to see these matters. i for one would not want to get into specifics about numbers and particular approaches. i think my recommendation might be to ask that or the director work with mr. short and buck on a drafter to come back to us. i'm assuming it would be sent to the board of supervisors beca

city you. traced it is continuing to invest in a car free future. my. way. the latest mega project cost more than $30000000.00 euros. the main railway station is now home to the world's largest by kharaj. and plans are underway to remove even more cars from the city center. like fun is you trace deputy mayor responsible for transport and mobility we built this kind of beautiful parking space where are you going to go to psycho just because the facilities are there so it's it stimulates the mobility to be like. the treasury is growing and doesn't want to be overwhelmed by car traffic in 2017 the city invested $130.00 euros per resident into cycling infrastructure bilin invested just 4 euro 70 per resident buttressed hasn't always been a world class bike city. like in many other countries in the 19 fifties and sixties the automobile was at the center of urban planning a large canal in the center of the city was even filled in so that a freeway could be built on top of it. for the past 20 years ha

everywhere in our city, like on the west side of the city which live. we should put this change through our regular process and making zoning changes so we have this full report on the other callers. let's encourage more housing and do it with carrots, not sticks. thank you. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> caller: good evening supervisors, corey smith, again on behalf of the housing action coalition. we absolutely like where this legislation is going and the intent of this legislation. we often talk about ways that we can create intensive to maximize the homes and whether it should be a car ot weather it should be a stick. and we absolutely do believe that it would be most effective to try to figure out ways to insensitive activities or behavior that we want as opposed to disincentivize behavior we don't want and however we can be helpful in doing that and we make ourselves available. but to chair melgar's comment to open the fact that this is creative, this is thinking outside the box, is something that we greatly appreciate and we would ask how

at least 100 cities in glascow so it's kind of you to join us. you've been somebody working up a global level but we know those interactions whether it's specific cities or p or pressure of big cities around the world how are you looking to help our department of state and your role as a global ambassador to integrate american cities into the foreign policy work that we do to help push these global agreements that at the subnational level ? >> it's a great question and thank you for your leadership . gina and i have talked about this because and i mentioned it a moment ago when i talked about the power of our example. you guys are the example and i know that in paris, set a floor not a ceiling for where we are going and in 2017 are only 33 cities that had committed to reaching 100 percent clean electricity. today 165. and the independent climate disclosure project named 88 cities around the planet as a list and more than a quarter of those are american citizens so that gives me bragging rights. that gives me leverage and when i go out and i've sa

when he settled in kansas city he started a church on the hill, he was part of the city community in the 1850's and trying to expand. you have these 150 bluffs along the river, on the little shelf of a town, in order to expand you have to go through these limestone bluffs. he put out a call, father donnelly, put out a call, and advertisements in boston and new york and the irish papers and he advertised for experienced laborers and skilled tradesmen to come to kansas city, and pay your fare and guarantee you a job in place to live to cut the those guys made a dollar a day to carve the streets. sometimes 80 foot deep through these bluffs. that was the genesis of the irish population in kansas city, which hundreds of immigrants responded, mostly from baltimore, boston, new york, along the coast. the irish they came to kansas city in the 1850's, and there were hundreds of them, they were mostly male. women followed. kids followed. but they were brought here for a simple reason -- to wield the pick and shovel. to cut the streets. , foundationserns for buildings. latrines. they put up bri

you can get quinces of the western side of the city through -- glimpes of the western side of city through trees. the lake is ada accessible. it has a peaceful atmosphere where you can enjoy a warm day. walk along the lake and watched many ducks, and swans, and seagulls. it is a tranquil spot to stroll, enjoy each other's company, and sail away. many couples come here to take a ride around the lake, floating under the bridges, past the pavilion and waterfall. for a quiet getaway, it makes for a memorable and magical experience. located on 19th avenue, this grove is the place to wear your hiking boots, bring your family, and bring the dog because it has so much to offer you and your loved ones. it is a truly hidden gem in the city. the part is rich with eucalyptus trees. long paths allow you to meander, perfect for dog walking in a wooded environment. >> i enjoy this base and the history behind it. the diversity that exists in such an urban city, the concrete, the streets, cars, we have this oasis of a natural environment. it reminds us of what san francisco initially was. >> this is a sect

they lived in the city for 500 years. then that they were the end of the middle ages when reagan's book was an offer and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews began to increase. their 1st. something this community. and to be often fit all culminated in 1519 when the approximately 500 people living here were driven out. simply expelled from the city using real. bertha they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before. and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise. which is why it's called noise or new. plots. above the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at $95.00 plots took 3 years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big means on send the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't let that scare you off it's really worth it. time to hop on

city or l.a. county, chief velo told me, but whichever one it is, they vaccinated 75% of the members and their covid positive numbers have just dropped dramaticcally. i know ours have as well of late. and that's great. some of that is also because it's dropping within the city as well. so we're working on getting more of our members vaccinated. right now we have 25 people in quarantine. out of those, 24 are covid positive. we're waiting on the 25th one. we have had 93 people return to duty for a total of 118 of our members have tested positive with covid-19. not all of them have been sick, clearly. very few have been hospitalized. in any case, we need to remain vigilant until we have the full vaccine rollout, so we will still be masking and cleaning and all that kind of stuff that we have been doing. and the covid positive and quarantine was much higher last week in the past couple of week. we're going in the right direction. i went yesterday and i know others went today to get training so we can

that's the biggest migration in the city of san francisco out the city. we should be doing everything we can to keep people here and keep residents in the city and also attract other people to come to the city right now. this would help small businesses a lot by providing customers. we should be looking at ways to sell and lease city-owned land to build housing and to make housing more affordable and bring poem book to san francisco. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments. operations. send through the next caller, please. >> caller: yes, good afternoon. the war game just started so i'm glad i get to speak now. i want to wish hilary ronen a happy birth date i hope it was worth while being here today for everyone. i want to say that i hope that the office of economic opportunity and vemmen developmn work with the taxi staff to find out if any of the police forces presented today would be able to taxi force and i encourage you to ope.some have enclosed them t your environmental health inspectors out there and get those places opened up. we serv

in the mirror also laid out that we also know a number of cities, and a number of cities there's a number of guns that have been stolen out of cars that i've used for crimes, how we pay attention to that? and how to be use any state and local laws that we have to hold those folks accountable were not locking those guns up and stopping those guns away safe. there's a lot of things that we can do but it starts with all of us paying attention to and focusing in and paying attention to her history and understanding the structural and historical racism that we have to address. but we also need to invest and pay attention to new models as we move forward and as the chief said i look forward to the questions in a q&a parts. is now my time to turn it over to mayor white from chicago. thank you all. >> good afternoon everyone. again thank you all for being with us. thank you mayor cranley for your leadership, and i am grateful for the conference of the leading on these issues. thank you tom as well, i'm going to repeat some of the things that you have heard because the threat of public safety and

the city is not laying off and he firefighters. the cuts do not require city council approval. but councilman noel guyot is opposed to the plan. the need is extremely great and karen oakland for public safety, and i s an elected official public safety's of priority and any neighborhood for any family, the fire department said it. this statement. quote as we prepare to implement this temporary flexible deployment model, the fire department is confident we have the personnel in technology and data driven decision making model in place to maintain it in here to the standardized response times for fire and medical incidents. we treat all covid patients and i don't know of any other fire department in the country that is reducing their capacity to respond in this time of pandemic. the firefighter's union says it's planning to go to court to secret rouz. training order to block the plan from going into place. rob rob ktvu, fox two news. to east bay women announced their joint bid today to unseat the alameda county deputy or district attorney and the sheriff. civil rights attorney. pa

with the city. they asked us to model our m.o.u. after the one the city made with san francisco state university. we have worked with the mayor's office and significant input from supervisors yee, president and more recently melgar to develop the m.o.u. over the past year. the community investments memorialized in the m.o.u. were developed through our comprehensive community engagement process that has spanned two years and has included 28 well attended community meetings. these community investments will pour millions of dollars into the neighborhood. including a commitment to quadruple housing for our parnassus students with 1,263 met units 40% will be uc affordable units and 20 million-dollar contribution to sfmta to improve pedestrian access to parnassus heights with a focus on increased capacity of the street scape improvements to make the streets safer, better lit and more beautiful. we also will make significant contributions to the local economy including thousands of union jobs and permanen

city leaders can't seem to agree on distribution plans. emily turner is live from city hall now where the battle continues between the mayor and board of supervisors. emily, let's talk about the major sticking points here. >> yeah. it's all about the roll out. the saga continues and it's all about plans here at city hall for how we are getting vaccinated. it's the who, the when, the where it'll happen. those are all question that the board of supervisors has also. so far they say that the mayor has been vague about the specifics. the supervisor said that the city and county of san francisco is shirking its responsibility by punting the distributions to private providers instead of rolling it out. in fact just yesterday city health officials said this is the approach that will work though because 95% of people have health insurance. they are calling for more direct approach. much like how the city approached testing and how other parts of the bay area are distributing the vaccine. kind of a direct consumer type thing. they want to see a web

testing city, city test s.f., which puts san francisco at the forefront of providing testing in this country. but in an expensive and complicated system that we built from scratch. with the vaccine, the federal government has purchased the vaccine and is distributing them through established networks of state and health care providers. so the vaccine rollout is a lot bigger than the city and the department of public health. but we do have a role to play, and one of those roles is to distribute the vaccine to our city-run facilities. that includes laguna honda hospital, where over 715 vulnerable residents currently live. the good news is that starting yesterday, working with walgreens, we started vaccinating the resident of laguna honda, and by tomorrow, all residents who want the vaccine will receive it. this is in addition to the over a thousand staff members who have already been vaccinated and more to come. now, it's important, for a moment, to take a step back. often these press conferences, we talk about numbers, we talk in data. we talk in concept, like infection rates and i.c.

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karen asked, how many "troop 6000" are there, only in new york city or has it expanded?> "troop 6000" has expanded and the others have program similar to ours and so i think we have maybe seven or eight other councils, it might be more but what i've heard of a seven or eight that have adopted similar programs as ours. >> that is awesome, this might be for karina, joann asked what badges most meaningfully and why? >> probably one of my badges for completing my own cadet. >> my cadet journey. >> it was a lot of work for reading the book in answering the questions and working together. >> that is really cool. >> and maybe this project, did it affect how you view poverty in new york city, what are the lessons you want readers to take away about our city and any quality or other lessons. >> i don't know if it changed my view, i think arity came in with a perspective of someone who did not grow up wealthy in someone's family who had been on food stamps and had free and reduced lunch, this was not foreign to me but i think it reiterated what i wanted to get it crossed as i thin

this is a world class city. overall it's a safe city. and we have to address the crime of the day is the residential burglary and we have to deal with it and get it reduced. and whatever it is, next month, next year and when the community is engaged and the community call police and they have the cameras and are involved in prevention and coming to the meetings and we're hearing their voice and we're a safer city. that is what we have to do now. >> i really appreciated that and with the sense of what the larger picture would be like. and a lot of anecdotal evidence and the stories of what is happening like what happened to commissioner dooley is not the only person in the whole city who experiences that. and to hear it from merchants who have gotten broken into repeatedly. it's tough n. our neighborhood, we are trying to work on preventive measures. i totally appreciate that if we can systemically kind of get through this base layer of protection for the merchant communities, that would be a huge help and i am totally supportive of makin

it does speak to the city, impact on the city. we need to do and we are doing steps and processes and plans and work as we speak to improve, not just how we do investigations but how we prioritize. that is not going to be enough. we have identified that the staffing level we need to do this, status quo is not sufficient. we have looked at the proposal to increase enforcement staff by three additional enforcement staff in addition to the four investigative positions we currently have to reduce the length of time to resolve investigations. also to increase capacity to be handling the complex cases that come forward to us. this also would have some professional services funds to enable us to have a straightforward online case management system. [please stand by] -- communicating with us at this point and again, we know and hope this is just the start of the conversation, that we would very much welcome further input about, and reaction to some of these ideas, other ideas that have not been discussed and with that, i'll just take down