families ladies and gentlemen, thanks to you can thanks to the people of the great city the city state our state of the city is strongest and getting stronger. (clapping.) it is is a unique moment in our history the city is busing with energy and pride not just because the warriors have the best record in the nabbing or the giant or world champions again and again and again (clapping) you know the ideas that conceived no incubator that microbe to the bayview from south of market to central market has spurred economic prosperity in our city our neighborhoods bustle again with young families and thriving small businesses our skylines 2r06r78d with the commercial towers 5 new hospitals under construction today soon to be joined by the central subway and chanted moscone center for the golden gate warriors a wastewater treatment plant and new neighborhood along the central waterfront that employees thousands of construction workers well, thank you to the hard working men and women to the construction trades the laborers and operating engineers and entertainment and electrical workers all the trade for rebuilding

will come in like that with the city worker raises that the city workers represented by 26 unit including sciu 1021 and 4 thousand workers the reality is that, of course city workers make you know much more of a living go wage and have great benefits and our nonprofit workers should have it, too it's a total inequality another point i want to bring up again private contractors with the city have those awkward increases from the contract and payroll some have a calculation ♪ there to have a for profit in the contract so this is a complete enequality between the nonprofits and the for profits contractors and the reality is the work percentage your members do they serve the hotels and help people find houshdz they're open the front lines of the constitutional rights and our workers what we see our workers really struggling and having to

so i want to say thank you we're n a world-class city a world series champion city and hopefully very soon our nba champion city and the superb 50 next year the arraign we're a world-class city everybody cares cares about our city supervisor kim's is is great champion not only for the beautification of every alleyway as mohammed said one hundred and 50 thousand volunteer hours since 2000 we have some thirty thousand plant that have been 34r5e7bd throughout even though city as a result of clean city 3 million square feet of graft abatement and i know that because i got one million of them and i got it on the same signal box i know a million square feet that's a square block i want to say thank you to the community groups you're helping not only to help clean the city and getting volunteers young people as well as people that point careers and good jobs to work with you dpw and all the associate agency rec and park and all those departments are part of our youth hiring organization we use the most basically teams of respectfully the city to recruit our youths and you'll see many of them grew up into career jobs i

city. a city that's exciting to them that keeps their minds focused on being successful and being integrated and being a world-class city. so, when i say that were not sitting on our success, i also saved we are building upon our success. you know, we raised the minimum wage. that's a excitingly good thing for people really feel that they can't afford to be here. we are investing in transportation. we are implementing a very serious tax reform. how could you have a tax system that was literally taxing jobs when you're saying i want those jobs in our city for everybody? we are investing in our city's youth and families and education system. in unprecedented level. i was with the school district the other night as they swore in the school board members that were just elected and i spent the entire evening with the school district. i wanted to demonstrate how important education is to the entire city. we are building housing. you are going to hear me, this year and any other year, whether i'm elected or not, it's going to be housing housing housing for middle income for workforce housing, convertible income lovers. we are

city and others services the city provides i also want to mention a challenge that i know is maybe beyond the scope of the hearings we receive a number of contract that are federal funding that have been flat funded for lower city contracts if there's something that the city can do to address that city i know there's 09 challenges fits the reality we're dealing with that also does not enable us to keep with the health care costs and all the other increasing costs so really appreciate our consideration without many of our services expensive things will go up. >> thank you, ms. >> i work for the health client we do the go health serviced so 6 years i've been in this work in the city we had support important the hotels people and most at risk for as long as i've been at any of the agrees i have a compre

city. and last night state of the city address mayor don guardian said he's focused on attracting new and different businesses. >> i believe atlantic city needs to make the transition from what was a casino-based city to a city that will be much more diversified. >> guardian promised property taxes will not go up. he says he will slash the budget by $30 million and will press the state for tens of millions more in aid. >>> school and health officials are keeping tabs on a measles scare at princeton university. the school says a student reported having symptoms of the measles. it said the student is better now and no longer contagious. doctors ran some preliminary tests. more need to be done to confirm it that it was actually measles. princeton is notifying everyone who might have had contact with the student. >>> it's now easier to get in touch with philadelphia city officials thanks to the newly improved philly 311 system. the city teamed up with unisys to beef up the system. now you can report problems get important information and find educational opportunities by of course, dialing 311, as you've always been able to do. but now you

finalize the $95 million deal. >>> and atlantic city's mayor says last year was, quote, a terrible year for a.c. and last night's state of the city address before city council, the mayor said he's focused on attracting new and different businesses. >> i believe atlantic city needs to make the transition from what was a casino-based city to a city that will be much more diversified. >> guardian promised property taxes will not go up. he says he will slash the budget by $30 million and will press the state for tens of millions more in aid. >>> and city council is making a move that could draw more families to atlantic city. according to philly.com city council approved an expansion of the steel pier last night. it will include a giant ferris wheel and a zip line. council also approved plans to rebuild the boardwalk and add restaurants and recreational facilities. >>> meantime a.c.'s future will also include stockton university. richard stockton college in galloway township officially took that name last night. the school opened in 1971. enrollment has jumped from 1,000 students to more than 8,000. and the name change comes just months before the schoo

city sadly many of the trees are not in good shape and san francisco ranges low for the canopy coverage this is unacceptable for a city hates environmentally conscious currently of the hundred and 5 thousands street trees in san francisco 60 percent are the maintenance for the property owners awhile 40 percent are maintained we the city we know that the city is now unfortunately flowing a process of dumping those trees on property owners we'll soon be at a point that one hundred percent of the street trees are the probability for property owners that's the case whether or not the property owner own or planted the tree or whether or not they want the tree or have the financial process to take care of the tree they're to take care of that it is radio extremely unfair the property owners have a hardship when maintaining the trees and fixing the sidewalks for the damage and the trees that are massive in nature it is is very, very competitive so the city's policy is an awful one we've worked with the friends of the uttering to create awning urban forest fund so the city can take on the responsibility of taking care of the street trees we don't have a solution but this plan creates a good road map how to have the best pobld urban forest for the street trees it is important to follow up on the creation felt affordable fundi

city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the cityystem like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28 1912 mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the

families we're residents we're part of this city and all residents will benefit in this city through the wealth and the things that exist because we're a cityhat cares taking care of of our residents we care about taking care of of each other i want to thank the mayor he's kept wording and worked tireless to keep public housing starting with the 4. $7 million to help to formerly homeless families they're in those units and the elevator money that fixes the elevators in public housing (clapping.) so this mayor is not just talking the talk but walking the walk that means so much because the way we get it done is work together and make sure that we continue to keep it at the forefront of everything we do in this city no more neglect wire finally doing what we need do to take care of the residents in the public housing development i'm as i said i'll emotional as someone that remembers what it feels like i'm enjoying even though moment and can't wait for the day this place in particular is rehabbed when we do work at west side court and holly court and west point and those elements that have been delipidated for many many years i want to emphasi

city clerk: item 11. real property lease amendment sf foc van ness avenue. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this item passes unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 126789 accept and expend grant san francisco city hall preservation fund. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this item is adopted unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 136789 accept and expend grant hiv transmission cluster analysis to inform prevention for the period of july 2014 through june 2015. >>supervisor london breed: same house same call. this resolution is adopted unanimously. next item. city clerk: item 14. planning code office conversion controls in landmark buildings. to require the project seeking office space in landmark buildings within this district to obtain other conditional use authorization. >>supervisor london breed: supervisor cohen? >> >>supervisor malia cohen: this is unanimously passed by the board of supervisors last year around a proposal designated around to henry adams, an historic building. in that particular case the project sponsor was going to conduct a building of long-term permits terments. during the review of the proposal i asked the planning department to look at similar buildin

city works, how the city's budget is put together. and those really -- that experience has really influenced my decision-making process. >> and speaking of the city'sget, the city just enacted a two-year budget and it seems the city is always dealing with complicated issues including whether or not to raise taxes and fees. how will you approach these tough choices? >> i think that when we talk about raising fees or taxes, we always have to come at it from a very balanced approach. we have a lot of homeownerses, we have a lot of tenants in the city. and, so, again balance is really key. i think we also have to approach the budget and some tough fiscal issues looking at the city-wide budget as a whole and not just looking at specific sectors or issue areas that we real have i to look at the city's financial standing as a whole for the long term. that's really important and that's definitely what drives a lot of my decision-making process. and i think it's also tougher in san francisco because we really are held to a very high standard where we have to balance the budget every single fiscal year. we cannot run into a deficit in the new fiscal year. we

what is so interesting, that cuts across city and suburb, north and south, tech city and energy city, knowledge city and manufacturing, and they seemed to have this. >> i would imagine that the least educated, the lowest income don't have the same choices to do that. the only people that could change this are the rich. why would they. why would anyone who select to live with other rich in a neighbourhood in the inner city, amongst workers of the same sort. why would they choose not to. >> it's actually what we fund. it's driven by the selection of the affluent. nieces and nephews going to school. you can raise if in a lily white pristine suburb. maybe they will not have the tools. the socioeconomic diversity to go out and make it in a real world. what i thing the way around this is diversity not on ads - diversities, mixities are not only more powerful but exposing particularly young kids. the best schools, people think, are in the privileged suburbs. it's the cultural learning, the ability to learn other languages that make a person achieve in a multicultural world. if that lab, that

city boards and city commissions. we are giving formerly tier 2 departments until next fiscal year to comply with the parts specifically regarding interpretation and translation. we recognize they may need to make some budget asks to comply so we want to encourage them to do so. we are clarifying telephonic messages do not include employee mailboxes. we are including -- for complaints received through city boards, city commissions and advisory bodies they will be part of the complaint process. we are adding additional information that ocea will provide specifically on complaints to the irc, and so again i know that supervisor yee has additional comments but we really want to emphasize that our goal is not to overburden our departments with these requirements. many of them exist already but we want to make sure that everyone has the ability to access whatever it is they need with san francisco city services. with that first i will let supervisor yee make some comments and then like to invite up adrian pon from ocea and i know grace lamb will be speaking on this as well. >> supervisor yee >> thank you, chair avalos it's kind of strange to be coming to the rules committee and be a guest since i was on the committee for, like, for two years and feel like it's a part of my dna or something. i guess i miss you so much i had to be here. actually it's about this ordinance that we are going, tha

city's bilingual employees because they are central to the city's efforts to adhere to the language access ordinance and we'd like to discuss where they are located, how much is being spent, who they are and what they do. so the city has two primary categories of bilingual employees. there are employees who have been certified as eligible to receive bilingual pay and that's currently about 7 percent of the city's overall work force and there are designated bilingual positions which are positions that have specific language requirements attached to them. most of these positions generally require spanish mandarin or cantonese. these are heavily concentrated in just a few departments. next is how much is being spent because it's important to note that although a department may have a lot of bilingual employees it doesn't necessarily mean they are being paid for it. employees are only paid for the hours they are actually using their language skills, which are then reported. so of the overall 7.6 million dollars in language expenditures, a little less than one-third of that is for bilingual pay premiums and as you can see again very heavily concentrated. we also wanted to figure out who are the bilingual employees and

city. >> in his state of the city the mayor admitted the obvious but he told residents he's focused on attracting new different businesses and he promised property taxes would not go up. >> i believe atlantic city needs to make the transition from what was akah casino-based city to a city that will be much more diversified. >> to do that there will be more tough medicine. he's slashing the upcoming budget be $30 million and reducing the workforce through attrition and layoffs. he's also hoping for new income pressing for tens of million more in aid from the state of new jersey. it's a lot of moving parts to restore a once proud city. this darkened boardwalk, the shuttered revel and showboat here illustrate the city's challenges visibly tonight. the budget that the mayor presented informally this evening may shrink even further by the time it's officially presented to the council in a few months. reporting in atlantic city george spencer nbc 10 news. >>> the future of atlantic city will also include the stockton university. richard stockton college officially took that name tonight. it opened in 1971. the school now has more than 8500 students. this name change comes months before the school ope

between that time and 1901, and we'll be talking about the city beautiful in washington, there is so much that happened in the city, to deal with the city, from the city, about the city, it was a next-door new and complex change. what i thought i would do, and i would ask you to -- i would recommend that in terms of developing a way of thinking about what is important in this city, in this time of change in the second half of the 19th century, that everybody has this little hand out. it's not an outline but i just want to put down a number of reference points for keywords, points because just so much was going on. if i miss or some don't talk about some of these things, feel free to question me at the end of the program. at the bottom line is the phrase , "justice versus beauty." i shamelessly cribbed this phrase from a wonderful book, a former and longtime professor at george washington university moved on directors -- rutgers and is now retired. the failure of race and planning in the district of columbia. the point i want to make is that there has been particularly once the process of development changed, speeded up so dramatically d

families we're residents we're part of this city and all residents will benefit in this city through the wealth and the things that exist because we're a cityhat cares taking care of of our residents we care about taking care of of each other i want to thank the mayor he's kept wording and worked tireless to keep public housing starting with the 4. $7 million to help to formerly

city to help pay for the city's needs we identify and you identified them i think human resources there's a lot in that question i think what i take it in a couple of different pieces going back to the sort of 2007 report number 3 of the priorities of why we do economic development strategies to make sure that the city has a stronger footing this is not my area of expertise but the city is near the high district is in order for us to be able to fund our priorities the city needs to have a strong economy to fund those things and get to many of the commissioners points of inequality having the resources gives us the ability to tangible those challenges as we face the challenges is there too much economic growth issues having that economic growth gives us the income to tjpa those the cities that don't have the resources to tackle the resources so i think your question about you know other opportunities to bring more money into the fold to tackle transportation i think about one of the housing recommendations and certainly today look at a fund to support affordable housing development in the city i think we're we've seen the type of fwifg that unhappiness within the tech community and other philanthropic community to tangle the fundamental challenges that i see effectively the city's economy i leave the

great world capital the capital of the future greatest empire in the world commercial city, cultural city, political city. no, jefferson said just a political city. build some buildings, plants and trees, don't pave the streets don't put in a water system. washington d.c., is controlled as a colony by the congress of the united states. congress does nothing for the city of washington unless the president takes leadership. washington, adams, jefferson jackson was actually a supporter of doing something. the great hero is going to be ulysses s. grant. but in our own times, lady bird johnson, the kennedys, bringing an expanded smithsonian, all the landscaping to the city. only presidential leadership. jefferson provided leadership. the plan is in the trash. that is the way it is going to stay until s grant -- ulysses s. grant. washington is unpaved dirty. the canal become so polluted methane gas is bubbling out of it. immediately, the new englanders said we only agree to come here, we did not agree we could not leave. in 1804-1809, at temps were made in congress to leave, to go to philadelphia baltimore, or

understand how a new policy might impact the city and counties cities like ours we have a bigger percent of hybrids and electrical cars ask there data on our city or statewide. >> i haven't gotten it but we'll look at that and get back to you. >> ask there any reason we couldn't create our oppose vehicle miles program here in san francisco. >> i think it requires state authorization. >> okay eaten for congestion active management we don't need it for that. >> we can look at as well. >> great colleagues any other questions thank you for the presentation very interesting. >> we're looking to see what happens in oregon and how that goes as and a at the go to the next portion of the project is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 5 is an informational item we'll go on to our next item. >> item 6 introduction of new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues any new items or issues go to public comment is there any public comment on item 6 introduction to new items seeing none, public comment is closed. and go on to our next item. >> item 7 public comment. >> our next item is on for general public comment see

kings. >> after the earthquake and fire city hall was damaged and this was a desire for leadership in the city to create a brand new civic center and brand new city hall that represented the citizens of san francisco mayor ralph said this building was built without a hint of grass and represents a sort of come back for the city of san francisco. >> and master sculpture that seebd the workforce from around the world left messages behind like the messages of strength and, liability and equality and learning that's what you feel when you walk a work in this building. >> for one hundred years all those two came through the braujz doors witnessed the history events it shaped the heart and soul in san francisco. >> it was an amazing place to come to work to report everyday coming bro through those doors. >> up that staircase made you want to do your best work. >> city hall is a jewel in our crown it's part of our culture and legacy like the golden gate bridge it's honored this building in its glorious history and preserve it for generations to come. >> san francisco city hall is criminally unique place not just a symptom of all the things that are uniq

transaction together and greg and others in terms of the city staff it is the whole city that works on this (laughter) federal reserve the mayor's office the city administrators offers and naomi kelly is critical in the task force and the departments of all sort of lined up behind the mayors directive assist the housing authority i know tom from dbi and planning and dpw and the human resources we're all working targeted a common goal this is again, the whole notion that the housing authority are no longer a island in san francisco i want to thank the enterprise list and the other people we're working with the developers and the cohorts and thank our housing developers we're uniquely blessed in san francisco to have 5 eco system they've step up to the plate and it is continuing to be difficult they'll do it t and last but not least i want to thank my staff who have been working on this lydia and others who have been leading the charge (clapping.) again, thank you all we will all do this together and hopefully, all see each other in he 12 months for the groundbreaking for the first one or the completion of the late last - at this point we'll on t

bargaining units will match the city similar city contracts for fiat holiday 4 fleeting holidays per calendar year and additional renovating holiday over the term of the contract city workers in 1021 and ton 21 don't have the benefit of the wellness incentive program that the city flez employees have provided a cash out value for sick time for retirement that's a value of 2 hundred 5 percent unused sick time also city employees don't have a separate beraechlt leave for the death of a family member associated with the employee instead the city workers are provided with the opportunity to use sick time so the proposed agreement before you today provides the wellness incentive program as well as the current beraechlt leave benefit for the ocii employees will continue through the next two years basically until the end of 2016 and it sunsets goes away so that in the future the benefits will more closely corridor to what city workers receive in terms of contemplatey time i'm sure you're aware of is time and a half for overtime work you don't receive paid over time the current city rules require for local 21 place over all cap of one hundred and 60 hours and cap of one hu

city. city officials say truck collisions have become a bigger contributor to injuries and deaths in san francisco. >> they are just so big and oftentimes people get drawn into the tires, the wheel wells, it's -- it's a gruesome situation. >> reporter: in august 2013, mulack cass killed at 6th and folsom. a jury later temperatured the driver of the truck to be responsible for the collision. city leaders say all delivery and construction contracts with the city will be required to take the program that california trucking association says it plans to expand in program to private companies. >> we want all of the private utility companies, whether it's pg&e, u.p.s., fed-ex along with the trucking companies that go to safeway and lucky's to be part of the training. >> reporter: now, if you have been in san francisco any time in the last, i don't know, year, you know that construction traffic is everywhere and the mayor made special notice and mention of construction vehicles and construction sites. the mayor says he wants construction drivers, people who drive to and from the sites to also take that safety program. in san francisco, tori, back to you in the studio. >> all right. thank you, sal. >>> now, in daly city, police are cracking downg on jaywalkers and drivers alike who were breaking the rules of the road. since the operation began about 8:00 this morning, officers have h

cases that did money 4r5ur7bd and face penalty by the fcc and city but then went on to still have city contracts why would you still give city contracts that are worth more than the penalty into effect you've fined them because they were rob the public so it is warned warranted in a number of cases. >> why is the process that the city attorney mentioned why isn't that the way to handle it rather than through the ethics commission. >> well the city attorney has done it to a property developer here in san francisco and told the contractor they were going to debar you and first, it forced them into a settlement of $20 million but that doesn't - that's a process that takes place outside of the public and didn't see the public has an opportunity to make a complaint and have it referred and plus, it's a two-step you have to have a hearing here and something that goes on behind closed donors that's my answer. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> pacific islander berry this proposal adds debombardments from c from for impermissible hides i bids this will debar a contractor from a city contractor for a specific period of time t