city hall, a historic building. we have beautiful access with the exception of the board of supervisors chamber. we know that the architect at the time recognized the need to make accessible, but they were unable between the disability community to come up with a design that would work during the actual renovation of city hall. we assembled a team of experts, both historic preservation and access experts. those familiar with the renovation -- there were 18 formal separate designs that involved a number of options. the process from 2004-2007, it was to the rules committee of the board of supervisors with options we were able to find. those options were viewed as the next year with the joint session of the disability council and the landmark preservation board. we narrowed it to the two best options interview that formally with important stakeholders. and the board of supervisors staff narrowed it to option 10, that was lowering the podium. in 2007 and 2008, the committee approved the project, and it was appropriated

to come in the city hall struck. that's you know i'm saying he don't you know i'm saying that's why i started this program and started the other reason with the. verse three of the murder of his brother tracy schoen visits his great who woke me up as my brother got back to me in a major way and. it opened a law and it made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why these days because he was trying to look up to me pattern up me follow up to really. showing richard is also was some of the good so violence and drugs were once his world when i first seen a shooting when i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know say these kids used to be right smack in the middle of shootouts. i have a good shout mangal life you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was they but give me what they want to i wanted more and that's out all. you know you start off you know. you start off hustlin and then you sta

now let me introduce to you someone from spain, someone who played an important role in city hall, in barcelona, his job as a counselor of international relations is to represent the city of barcelona throughout the world. ignacio? >> good morning. i will set a couple of words in catalan the end of the speech. mayor newsom, officials, it is a great honor to share this moment with you. on behalf of the mayor of barcelona, i would like to say this ceremony is very important and emotional for every citizen in barcelona. we share a path on certain routes. hispanic history that we can see. we admire san francisco day. during the last century's, barcelona and san francisco were considered harbor cities. for many decades we have been receiving populations from many different countries. you are in western get me to the united states and we are the capital for the in mediterranean region. we are both seen as open cities, for many european cities the word of san francisco for barcelona means open minded cities. this is important for us. we have many things in common in the past but also the pre

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. is building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands

ann. >> reporter: the question, how do you fight city hall when it's not in your own city? and that is the question that people in walnut creek are asking. they live right there on the border between walnut creek and pleasant hill. i just stepped into pleasant hill. and here we are where they want to bill an in-n-out burger restaurant and some people doesn't want it. >> we love them but not here. >> reporter: in-n-out likes this pleasant hill location because it's visible from 680 but it backs up against a walnut creek neighborhood one without sidewalks and two street lights and white pleasant hill might get up to $50,000 a year in taxes, there are dozens of walnut creek neighbors who are saying, what about us? >> the benefits going to come to pleasant hill and that's good for pleasant hill and the trash and the traffic and the congestion is going to walnut creek and our neighborhood. >> reporter: the neighbors have banded together attending meetings explaining how they don't want to be overrun by the smell of fast food, the potential for garbage, the exhaust from cars lini

nasra and family partnership, california general partnership, and city hall low created at 1 dr.lton b. goodlett place. commissioner avalos: welcome. >> welcome back. members of the committee. assistant director of real estate. so i want to give you a little bit of background as to how we arrived at what's before you today. back in early 2007, mccall, who is operating a mobile cafe operation in the north light court terminated their lease. following that termination we decided to pursue a social enterprise and cafe operation in the north light court. and this board approved a recommendation to have juma ventures operate that which lasted from spring of 2008 until, unfortunately, spring of 2009 when their financials were just not performing at all. so they elected to affect and early termination. there was a penalty associated with that early termination in terms of forfeiture of their security deposit. which actually made the city financially whole until currently. now it's in agreement that results from a competitive solicitation process an offering of one operator for both the

and fighting city hall, like i'm sure all of you are probably engaged in doing, we had--and i must admit it's a luxury-- the ability to get away with not fighting city hall but in a sense creating our own city hall without all the bureaucracy, and just going out and-- and establishing an ability to do what we wanted to do. and for some reason, we got away with it. i have no idea--i always say that if i had been born anywhere else in the country than san francisco, i'd have probably been executed by now. or--and in so doing, it caused a lot of people who do the fight that-- the normal a.c.l.u., and the people do get involved in got a little resentful of us and called us sort of irresponsible hedonists and that whole sort of thing. but that there was a real-- what would be the word? commitment to establishing our own place with our own laws and our own rules. and we somehow--i don't why to this day--got away with it. you talk about the band as being apolitical, but-- not apolitical, but we didn't deal in the normal political spectrums and submit ourselves to congress and deal with ci

world's most important artists, but as my 4-year-old daughter who goes to day care in the basement of city hall said here, that is really could. and i think we can all agree. i am going to ask the artist to speak next. a city is only as great as its people. san francisco is a great city. and its cultural life is only as great as its artists and the creativity, inspiration and things they bring to the life here. we are glad to be able to call him one of our own. [applause] >> good morning, my friends. [speaking chinese] >> i'm really honored today to share this moment with everybody here in san francisco , to actually have this ceremony of this giant god from the orient to san francisco today. [speaking chinese] >> he wasn't expecting that the mayor is so young and handsome and has such good taste of art. [laughter] [speaking chinese] >> he was hoping last night that the mayor can honor him as an honorable citizen of france -- san francisco. [speaking chinese] >> in about five years ago, i actually spent more than 10 years to go performance art, and i was really young and energetic. and i have a

jade hernandez has discovered the opposition both inside and outside of city hall. >> reporter: a strawberry shortcake doll, these toys are a sweet deal for little ones. but it pushed this san francisco supervisor -- >> why is the city so afraid of this measly ordinance? because it cuts into their billions of dollars of profits from the disney, to the other characters. >> reporter: santa clara has already adopted a similar law which only covers unincorporated parts of the county and aonly -- and only affects four businesses. this man owns 19 of the mcdonald's in san francisco. >> it's about a choice. parents can have apple dippers instead of french fries. instead of a coke, they can replace that with a milk or juice. >> reporter: opposition is also coming from inside city hall. mayor gavin newsom says eliminating a toy like this one isn't necessarily the best way to get kids to eat healthier. >> i don't really think most parents are going to make that the major determining factor. i don't see it as much of an issue. and i think it would be better if the cities didn't weigh in on it. >> repor

>> it is at noon in city hall. it is on the third floor. i can get that with -- to you. >> [inaudible] i second question is, how far in advance to know which applicants will be appearing before us? do we have a calendar? >> the commission? how far in advance the staff now? the applications come in. there is a 30-day notice period. quite some time elapses before it goes to you. i don't necessarily communicate to you until you get an agenda. you don't know. if you want to change that, we can talk about it. >> i would like to know, maybe in an advance -- may be in advance. i would like to visit the neighborhood and see the environment where applicants are coming from, so i have a personal reference. that might be helpful. i am also attending the neighborhood outreach thing, if they have such a thing, i would like to be able to go. >> ok. >> if there is a way for you to communicate to was who will be coming up front -- >> at this point, the number of applications is not that large. it is not too much of a problem. there is no problem letting yo

improve things on our own but we could use the city resources to get things done. >> i hope that city hallegins to see what they need to do to help us, and be a bit more -- not just approachable, but responsible for the entire city. >> i think we are making great advances with the parks that have been neglected over many years and still we have a way t go obviously and the other is the planning process and we are on the verge of permanent controls for the mission district and the dot com boom and whatever form it takes in the future and will not result in that di displacement and particularly for families here long time. >> the mission brings wonderful memories and to me i see hope every time i walk down the street and think about the mission and think about the wonderful things here and the growth and the sustainablity an the families and the culture an so many wonderful things and they shouldn't wokous focus on they see the mission is. >> they seen the carnivals and the high rent and poverty faced by the residents and we met som of the committed people working to make things better in sa

first responders say it's a message to city hall and the citizen. >> despite what city hall has done to us, we will continue to keep our prom mess, the oath we took when we became police officers and firefighters to protect the city. >> reporter: police officers and firefighters have filed a lawsuit against the plan. it's unclear if the city will be willing to talk. i'm kai jackson. now back to you. >>> thousands of workers at at steel mill face being laid off. according to our media partner the baltimore sun, between 1,000 and 1200 people could lose their jobs. >>> in sports it's sure to be a september to remember for the orioles who picked up another win. brad bergesen pitched a complete game. they sweep the blue jays out of town. the orioles get a day off today. >> ravens tightend todd heap says he's not sure if he will be able to take to the field. he said he lost the ball and had to make that dive to get the grab. he said he's taking his injuries day by day. when the ravens are on the road this weekend, you can watch the ravens and bengals in cincinnati sunday afternoon at 1:00.

response when one operator has the ability to capture the entire marketplace for food service in city hall. it's a pump in our revenue. there's some, i think, efficiencies that are gained by sharing the furniture and fixtures that drive both operations. so there's some efficiencies by the operator. that's reflected in the revenue paid to the city. commissioner mirkarimi: there was also an attempt a few years ago after the remodel to restale san francisco-only frod -- products in also north light court s there any discussion about resurrecting that as well, too? >> i would simply say informal, we have tossed that idea around over the last couple years since city store ceased to exist on that area of the north light court. this begins to bring that concept back in terms of having a little bit of retail beyond the existing cafe operations. i think this gives us perhaps a chance to test some things out. commissioner mirkarimi: the current operator in the basement, were they not able to provide, i think, what would be the hopeful sort of answers to running both ground floor and basement operati

. >> it's unfair, wrong, illegal and what's happening now is you have a bunch of thieves at city hallod. >> reporter: has insisted that the changes are fair saying the pension system insures retirees have a secure plan and one that the city can afford. >> this is the second billboard put up by police officers and firefighters. union leaders are banking on this in your face display of frustration. >> reporter: the first one showed just as much frustration as the second. first responders say it's a message to city hall and the citizens. >> despite what city hall has done to us. we're going to continue to keep our promise to protect the citizens of the city. >> reporter: the firefighters and police unions have filed a lawsuit against the city at this point but there seems to be some willingness to talk. it's unclear whether that's going to happen. >>> and wjz will keep you posted on the outcome of the lawsuit. >>> thousands of local jobs are on the line tonight as workers wait for the outcome of the steel mill. >>> the president of the steel workers union says the russian owner of the pl

live at san jose city hall, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, george. stay with nbc bay area for continuing coverage of the san bruno explosion. >>> we also have a special section in our website at nbcbayarea.com. >>> new tonight at 5:00, san jose police released a sketch of a man suspected of trying to rape a jogger on a popular trail. the suspect is described as a hispanic male in his mid 20s, 5'6", 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. he was last seen wearing a grey hoody. the woman was running down along coyot coyote trail and she kicked and screamed until the attacker ran away. >>> new at 5:00, four years after a san francisco police officer was killed in the line of duty the jury found the man guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstances. the officer had parked his cruiser hoping to stop a suspect leading officers on a high-speed chase in 2006. but steven patrelli drove the stolen van he was driving into the policeman hitting and killing him. his emotional family members say they are satisfied with the verdict. his father says, w

i went to city hall, and two cops were blocking the door out front, and they got me down on the ground, and retired captain newlin keeps me from getting killed. that shows even more compassion. i've been running around the city for 40 years. i know people at every level of government since even before -- not before, about the time that captain newlin joined the police department. this man has as good a reputation in the city as you are ever going to find. you need a cop on the entertainment commission, and you are not going to beat john newlin. supervisor campos: thank you. what any other member of the public like to speak? >> i'm going to go away, but item six, is it okay to throw him in? darcy of there, same thing. -- garcia there, same thing. this guy is fair. supervisor campos: thank you. what any of a member of the public like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion by supervisor alioto- pier. can we take that without objection? thank you very much. >> will you be sending this item for? supervisor campos: if you could send it to committee report. please call items

as the winds of change blow through moscow city hall the former leader of the u.s.s.r. mikhail gorbachev reflected on eighteen years of luzhkov city rule. if you will be in the first years of term as mayor and those were the most critical years when industry collapsed when the situation in the cities across russia was terrible he did a lot of moscow here to size firm controls for most of those resources and distributed them in the right ways he supported women children and war veterans in those years i myself used to say that moscow was lucky to have such a mayor as good as you really school time passed and law school started to change these he had a billionaire wife by the authorities began to look more attentively at private activities where she was a rose whether the mayor had a room to wall to tackle moscow's problems a lot of things have now come to light it turned out that funds allocated for the reconstruction and expansion of my school street in routes were invested in some enterprises from which someone received a huge profit of sanctions in recent years have be

when will i see you again when will our city hall be together. are we friends, let -- yes, we are friends? this is not the end. when will i see you again? precious moments. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i just want to say thank goodness for district elections. i want to speak about the recreation and parks department commission and the need that they have through the parks department commission. there has been several instances where there has not been what i believe it is legitimate public outreach. i believe we have a happy outcome. what he realized is downtown, south beach, our open spaces are rare and cherish. the changes impact all of us. i and stand -- i understand that we have constraints, however we should not be selling our public spaces without a good discussion. i'll encourage you to pursue having the board of supervisors appointed commissioners not reparations and paris, along with other commissions. thank you. >> thank you. >> i work with the inner-city adolescent network. we provide programs for the use

it does matter what happens down at city hall and the state capital. it is about leadership. it is not just the elected folks as much as it is the people in the trenches. they have driven it with the business leadership you see behind me. >> what impact with those people becoming unemployed have on the city social-service is? >> two things can happen. mayor newsom: is very important. you have heard about the 99 yea'ers who will lose benefits m the federal government. they end up on county welfare rolls. those of the county assistance programs. we already saw when the unemployment debate occurred and there was still a question of the unemployment benefits being extended, you saw substantial increases, and double the number of applications on the county program. underbudgeted, subsidized by the county. two things happened. people go on the federal rolls. some may have already had experience on the rolls before and did not get the natural extension benefits. then they go on the county rose. the county has to subsidize it at a time when the counties are already financially strapp

as far as i understand the private sector being the government and city hall and public jobs and so forth so you say it's not for that because the private sector, which is corporate and private businesses, us, might only lose about, i heard a number of 50 jobs and so party, will these people be able to get jobs at city hall, then? it doesn't seem possible to me. and then the last thing was that i don't really get what this whole fee is for. as my fellow people said, some are killing the goose that's laying the eggs. that's all i wanted to bring forward for you to think about. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joshua. i'm with the youth leadership institute and i'm also part of the program from the youth leadership institute. i'm here again today to say a few words on why this fee will be beneficial to the youth. it's known that the youth are the most influenced in the community by the messages they say. and, therefore, they are the most vulnerable. this fee will help fund some services that the youth need, such as prevention services an

with one idea in mind of what we do and what can happen, and in talking to all the departments in city hall, and understanding all of the little pieces that go into every day and how difficult it can be tedious things in the city, and that, for me, was a really good lesson about how each side -- all the participants, ourselves included, we came in thinking we knew the way to do it, and when you hear all the other pieces, everything that goes in, you just have a greater understanding, and it helps you come to decisions that make more sense. even my friends in the transportation average is the world, we do not always see eye to eye, and i probably will not see eye to eye with everybody on issues that are in front of us, but i do know that i am willing to learn because i have learned so much in my years just with liveable cities and my work with sunday streets. i know that i'm open to listening, and i know we have a job in front of us. i understand the concern about all of the members being nominated by the mayor. i can say for myself, i absolutely have an independent voice and an independent

park in front of city hall now have t park >>> city of fremont has a new parking policy. drivers who park in front of city hall now have to back in and park diagonally. kiet do shows us it's supposed to be safer for drivers on both 2 and 4 wheels. >>> reporter: in fremont, it's simple, unorthodox and it just might work. diagonal parking spaces that you have to back into. >> you make it look so easy. >> it is. >> reporter: the city has put in a few dozen of them on capitol avenue in front of city hall as part of a pilot program to maximize both parking and bike safety. why not parallel parking? it takes up too much length. perpendicular parking takes up too much width and head first diagonal parking too dangerous for bikers. the law doesn't allow bike lanes because drivers can't see cyclists when they back out. >> so how hard is it to park in reverse? let me just say, it's going to take some practice. >> i should turn to back in. people may -- as you turn to back in people may not expect you to back into diagonal parking so there might be some fender-benders initially. >>

city hall heard about this and yanked the buses at the last minute. they went and found suburban school buses to rent. they got the parade under way, and they got half way downtown and they were met by a string of chicago policeman across what is now martin luther king boulevard. they had machine guns and shotguns. they said you cannot go any further. but we had an escort of four or five black police officers, and it looked at that moment as though something terrible was going to happen, and in the lead car was a wonderful priest. he leaps out of the lead car and gets between the two and gets these white police officers to get hold of themselves. they backed off. downtown, city hall is surrounded by cops, again with machine guns. in the midst of this, there was a ward committee man. i remember getting out of the bus and saying to marshall, are you crazy? these are your voters. marshall said he was talking to marshall said he was talking to upstairs and they did

. >> they started with aerobics at city hall today. fall by the western high school dance team -- followed by the western high school dance team. all to support healthy city days. >> we live in a city with the best health institution in the world. we should have the healthiest citizens in the world. we will make that happen. >> those in attendance got some exercise, taking a walk from city hall down to the science center at the inner harbor. donna hamilton and her daughter were here for the walk. >> i think the rates of diabetes in the city is disgraceful. we have to do something about this. the journey starts with one step. it is time for baltimore to take that one step. >> on pratt street, deanna cook and her daughter were making healthy smoothies. >> these will keep you going all day and help you lose weight and make your skin great. asteor those taking the test test. >> it tastes pretty good. >> it is better than i thought. >> i do not like it. i tried the banana barry. it is a little better. >> there are healthy activities every da

either man plans to indeed make a run for the top office here at city hall. but today there is confirmation rahm emanuel and jesse jackson, jr., met privately last night in washington. it's no secret the white house chief of staff is interested in succeeding mayor daley. but he is telling those around him to focus on federal business and avoid speculation. jackson, jr., has been quite open with his hopes to run chicago, too. in a statement this morning, jackson said both he and emanuel agreed that, quote, every possible contender should conduct their effort on the moral high ground. that means both are still seriously considering a run and one political analyst says that's no surprise. >> it is so wide open. i just think that if emanuel and jackson meet, fine. but everyone is meeting. everyone is trying to feel out the other person how serious they are. >> reporter: now green believes that with race and geography, likely factors in this mayoral election, he believes that all contenders should not daly on a decision. quite a few people have expressed interest

which i said were ivcnqáxgçrdajñ=o3'3i%e incidences, came to city hall to show their faces to be in aith each other to say it is time to do something different, and i felt really good about that. ok. so, again, i just wanted to reiterate that our issue remain sort of outstanding. with respect your materials being given to you, in terms of asking the city attorney about how we can use an internet base or a web based document processing system, and i do not have a final, final answer, but they are investigating as to whether we can move documents that may or may not be -- anything like privacy concerns are issues that might be related to that, wrote so any impact has been small enough, and we will keep you informed as we go forward. iÑie now, he will begin when he returns, and i am still excited about it, even though it seems like a little thing. corrective actions on items. we, as you know, are trying to be responsive to in particular as it pdj of security plan review or limited suspensions, and thankfully, i have not had to do any of those, but -- it some reports around that issue. i