coming to you live, san francisco city hall, the indians have all arrived. about a big round of applause for our native american dancers in the house? rocking san francisco. singing loud, dance hard, all right. all right, one more time, let's give it up for our singers, our dancers, kicking it live here in san francisco city hall, all right. good to be here tonight. seeing all these shining indian faces once again. could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. -- annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native american

it is a big part of what i look forward to doing in city hall. >> what are the specific thoughts you have on how the city can deal with budget issues? >> i think of two things. i'm not one the things that we can raise revenue and that is going to solve out of our problems -- i'm not one who thinks that we can raise revenue, and that will solve all our problems. we need to look at what we do as a city and was services we offer. we have 26,000 city employees. our payroll and fringe benefits for city employees accounts for over 60% of our budget. if we are not willing to look at that issue, i do not think we are going to solve -- i know we will not solve our long-term financial issues. that, to me, is the biggest deal. second, it is about job creation. jobs are not just putting people back to work, which i think is the highest priority, but it is all the ancillary benefits we received, whether it be payroll taxes, an increase in property taxes. people who live and work in san francisco also shop at local restaurants, so shop at the local retail stores. it is a huge economic impact in san

-- what will hopefully be forever -- arab heritage month celebration at city hall, so thank you all for coming. [applause] as you probably know, tonight is a difficult night for many people. the world series is going on, and i'm here to report to you aid is 0-0 so far, in the second inning. we will have it on during the reception. before we get started, i wanted to recognize and bring up two elected officials to speak briefly, supervisors avalos and mayor, who have always stood with the community -- supervisors avalos and mirkarimi, who have always stood with the community. they have consistently had their offices open when we had an issue. they're being here means a lot to us -- their being here means a lot to us. now more than ever, we need to be friends with government, and knowing their door is open to us is appreciated. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: good evening. i'm ross mirkarimi. i represent the fifth district, and i'm delighted to be standing up here with my colleague who will speak in a moment. i want to thank mike farrah for his leadership and mayor newsom for helping

having the connections to the committee on, people who want to see people working in city hall, i think he would do great job and we should let him. >> i am urging you to please take a [singing] good candidate for the task force and they up our city life. you give us hope for a better day and light up our night and make it better, all the way. it cannot be wrong. keep the task force strong. please line up our sunshine task force, light. >> thank you. are there any other speakers? seeing 9, public comment is closed. i see at least two of our sunshine task force. i would like to think of the applicants who applied for these seats. it is great to see there is such been an interest in transparency and the open government processes. it is good to see some and citizens who are interested in serving on our task force. we would like to think the current members for their dedication and taking responsibility and representing on behalf of our city. they view. are there any comments or questions on this item? >> i know that several of the members have been fairly active with the sunshine ordinance

that is when the fun began in city hall. who would he be? >> we needed to protect -- perfect the process so that once the board asked us for that process, we could actually have something in place that was well tested that we could provide to them. >> mayor newsom would be sworn in as lieutenant governor in early january. so the board of supervisors had barely two months after the november election to select an interim mayor to complete gavin newsom's term. but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parli

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this 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 stan

-- rocking and a rolling at city hall good golly, miss molly at city hall ♪ [bell] president chiu: feintst speaker. >> my name is eugene jr. the government initiates' capital currency. accumulated wealth and capital currency is involved in government with controls, the conditioning of we, the people, to educate. it is no different than a seed planted in the earth for production. their only difference is that their motive is in reproduction. it is currency and consciences. an already divided people, a sharing, giving. it is equal for its own motives profits. the public leisure performance contest, market speculation, consumer advertising, public participation, and a victory from what is bought in sold. it takes so much effort to convince. a political-economic dictatorship, and exchange for union labor. clerk calvillo: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is dal;e -- dale. i have to tell you, these meetings are born without crests -- are boring without chris daly. these drug buys, 30 or 40 kids on the corner selling drugs. i guess they feel on friday, they're going to get a pa

welcome to city hall. happy new year, everybody. it is an honor to see all of you here. it is a reminder for all of us as public servants that we are here to serve you. the day we opened city hall to all of you -- it is quite an honor to see all of you here celebrating with us. it is a reminder of how we have to constantly keep city hall opened, not just for the folks that have access, but for those that do not. it has been a struggle. as my colleagues have talked about, it has been a struggle for the community. and it is not over yet. we have some high hurdles to face, serious budget issues coming up this coming year. we have a lot of strong economic issues, moving forward, but i know that you know that all of us are working hard every day to solve those problems. again, happy new year. [[s speaking chinese] happy new year, everybody. [applause] >> thank you, phil. i know the general counsel is here. would you like to say a few words now? [applause] >> [speaking chinese] [applause] dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, is truly a privilege and honor to join you tonight to

he helped to change city hall to a place where lgbt people, whether aides or supervisors or otherwise, could be heard. after the assassinations of assassinationsmosconi -- the assassinations of mayor mosconi and supervisor mill, he worked with the budget analyst. he worked as deputy director of public affairs, often appearing at city hall to testify on the air for its behalf. this is -- since i learned of peter's death last week, i have talked to a number of people. he was a really popular guy, and for good reason. i know he will be missed by an awful lot of people, so i asked that we adjourn the meeting in his memory. i am also introducing a resolution today relating to the availability of night life opportunities for youth in san francisco. recall that i had requested an economic impact study on the entertainment and not let industry generally, and that is proceeding, but tonight, there will be a joint meeting of the youth commission and the entertainment commission relating to the availability or lack thereof of safe entertainment nightlife opportunities for youth. it is important

welcome to this lovely part of our city hall. this was always made for this kind of attention because with in this room today, we probably have some of the most powerful women on the plant. so we have to pay our respects. but i want to thank family and the commission on the status of women. i know we have experienced a recent loss, and kaelin was such a great leader among the rest of the commission on the status of women, as well as her husband, who had actually started the state commission on the status of women. i wanted to just acknowledge that history. also, i did not see them here -- maybe they are still meeting, but i know the members of our board of supervisors just announced their honorees for this month when in history month honorees. i wanted to make sure i give a shout out to all of the honorees because the whole city i think cherishes the contributions of women in everything that we do, whether it is a department head, commission, consultants, contractors, vendors. there are women throughout the whole works of the way

they make their way down to city hall. they had a temporary stop at international and 14th avenue where they blocked an interception just for a short period of time. what the group wants to do is stop the city attorney of oakland from getting gang injunctions. they want to put pressure on city hall to stop. we are back here once again, you can see the people are out here hanging out. it's been a pretty peaceful rally. they want the state attorney to stop the gang injunctions where he says nortenos has committed a lot of violent crimes. much of the violent crimes that have happened in that area. they hope that their presence out here maybes oakland city council members and oakland city attorneys stop the gang injunctions which they say are very racist. i'm paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> so far it's been a normal and relatively quiet day. it affected at least a thousand students when 26 classes at wheeler hall were cancelled. >>> eight people were finally let out, about nine khráb 30 last night after being perched on

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

>> city hall. commissioner courtney: when the design phase is completed and workers are arriving at the job site, do you have any estimation about not what classification, but how many workers, how many jobs for each site? >> i can give you a general sense of what we thought after we talked with the most attractive better out of the process that resulted in no award. when we sat down and looked at the tasks, look-alike -- that's the question you are asking? commissioner courtney: the total number of people. >> yes. it looks like it would be around 30. commissioner courtney: and any time from a few weeks to a month and a half? >> the total number was -- commissioner courtney: if there are 60 of them on the two sides, that's less than 40 hours per person. vice president moran: i just wanted general understanding of what you consider -- let's say the work goes out to bid a immediately. what different process these would you be going through in your this time verses the last time or would it be the exa

they're they're really as you can see from what's going on in wisconsin and pretty much there by city hall as true as this happens one you've got in wisconsin for example you know republicans and all over the country republicans obviously doing what these guys want them to do but in michigan governor snyder is even saying that if city hall is having a hard time raising money. or they might think about doing something like raising taxes oh my god we can't have that that they can simply he can simply as the governor simply dissolve city hall dissolve the town and replace it with our burdon blackwater blackwater after all prince came out of michigan i mean could be with with a manager that could be from a for profit corporation so all of this stuff ends up all of it comes ends up being the property of and controlled by big business including democracy which just falls over. still to come in the big picture two very wealthy brothers have been arrested in london in connection with the collapse of the icelandic bank and we're going to do the same thing here at stores next. lindsey lowe and he ha