the nonprofit facilities and how to maintain that as part of our neighborhood and the city's fabric throughout the city particularly for our anyhow vulnerable and low income that makes our city vibrant a second on the hearing of the uniform rules that are being proposed i am sorry and human serves the current reality in our shelter system was designed for temporary relieve for families of financial distress today 50 percent state they've got a disabling condition and 1/5th or citizens they can't have their issues alternated two ways to continue to protect the status quo and deny the services that can't be inadequately served or two to transform the system as colleagues have heard me talk about after spending a invite in one of the shelters i was stunned by the number of individuals that were sitting down older or citizens and also by the number of individuals that had physical or mental disabilities since that time i've been working with dpw to collect the information and pushing for example, for a medicine respite we can add the people that are chronicling homelessness i've heard from our constituents

the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. 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 tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that s

city and citizen, you all, the citizens of cities are the fabric of the cities. it's why cities work. and to empower, the real name for this book wasn't "if mayors ruled the world," but if citizens of cities ruled the world through and with the municipal officials. that isn't optimistic positive solution which not only to provide a new form of global governance but can rekindle the spirit of an to trust in democratic institutions. thank you very much. [applause] >> a few questions for you and then we will discuss all of this with the mayors. you talked about the theory, but there's actually a practical application just ahead because mayors from around the world are about to meet. >> thank you. i will take just a minute with you because i want to get to discussion, but chapter 12 of the book i proposed a mayors of parliament, but since that time i was invited first to seoul, korea, by me or park and than by mayor bloomberg to see the lab last you and your company this year the four major mayors of the so-called dutch g. for mayors of the netherlands, invited me and

understands how these things are important to the quality of life we have here in the city and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part because of is the public works sdooshg which is a great pedigree my own bias i was one, too i was the city administrator amongst among the architect of the capital plan that is institutionalized in the city a process we combifrpt and investing in the city critical assets that's a successful program and it was really does mayors sense then city administers of the importance of the infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed lee accountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation director in a city and the mayor comes and brings together

the city. i want to span the entire 19th century from the beginning of the city as a federal city and even come up into and through the 20th century. one of the things i will be doing at the library is thinking about how to bookend the project. there is a wealth of great material, but finding a way to present it in a coherent fashion with logical beginning and ending points is going to be something that i need to grapple with a little bit. >> how did the presence of native americans change washington? are the remnants of their presence today? >> yeah. that is a really good question. one of the things that i want to focus on in particular with this project is sort of the tension between the commemorative and symbolic representation of native people and the lived experiences of native people in the city. if we want to think about representation, the stories are written all over the walls in the capital building. the capitol rotunda features these giants release over each one of the directional doors, -- giant reliefs over each one of the directional doors depicting these. in the architecture on t

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

so the first item calling for a hearing on pg&e's negotiations with the city with the public utilities commissions a complaint in 9 city attorney's office that pg&e has unreasonably denied service to the city because pg&e has a monopoly on power and distribution in san francisco they're required to be an open access provider they've transferred hetch hetchy power to the terms of interconnection that's power generated by the city but transported on per diem lines it exteriors next julia year ago the city requested a new negotiation but per diem has refused to negotiate in good faith they've trying to force the city to put in several new equipment that's been in place for decades technologically e pg&e is trying to get the city to pay for services the city paid for years ago it appears that pg&e is trying to undermine those negotiations or trying to take advantage of the city last month the city attorney filed a complaint a complaint that alleges that pg&e has unreasonably denied service to san francisco so i'm calling for a hearing to hear an update on the complaint we've received help if the deputy city attorney on thi

exists the employers set an equal pay by asking the employees to report compensation to the city we're asking city contractors to unconscious take a look at how contemplation works for them i'll give you an example something that was pointed out during the meeting of the commission status of women merna who is the executive director of jamestown community center testified on the status of women upon hearing about this piece of legislation she asked her home sharing employee to prepare a report to understand whether or not their disparity of pay between men and women and we're talking about a pretty open-minded equal organization and even in that organization merna was surprised there's paid discrepancies she couldn't provide but for this law this was something she wouldn't have looked into we believe it will be the 88 same truth, in fact, the enequality exists by something people are not unconscious thinking about that will benefit not only san francisco workers but insure that san francisco continues to lead the way the same way we have on a number of issues we take the example of the domestic pa

now francine is going to present the old city within the city. with ruins. ins of an ancient stadium. i love how your city combines the future and the past. and what a superb idea to use the colosseum for inspiration. a perfect touch. (crowd cheers) this is awful. lefty's getting crushed, and this hot dog doesn't have enough mustard. what do you mean? this game's a blast! how many home runs have we seen? you don't mind that lefty's not pitching a perfect game? i'll see one someday. yoo-hoo! over here! we need more peanuts! (sighs) you can never get those vendors when you need them. wait a minute. that's what this stadium needs. a light that flashes over your seat whenever you need something. (groans) francine: the buttons could be on the armrest. it will be perfect! and now... my name is tyler, and this is second grade, and we're working on cities. what do we need to make a city work? a city hall? fire station? the hospital? we started with a whiteboard, and then we put some roads on it. we need roads in our city so people can drive. are there other forms of

well, it's great to be in the city lecturing on the city that you wrote about in the very place in the city that you wrote about, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. i like that better than power point as a term. i'm not good at power point. it's not that i'm a luddite. i'm just not good at technology. i'm just a technological idiot. well, this is not -- "the supreme city" is not the book i originally set out to write. the original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was -- i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and it's an untold story actually. it's been told in bits and pieces, but it's never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the -- the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an ur

transportation joins with the san francisco transportation authority and other city agencies in thanking the voters of san francisco for supporting much-needed investment in our city's local and regional transportation system. we look forward to rolling up our sleeves to help to deliver the improvements that will support our city's visioner zero, to drive the traffic fatalities to zero and, that will support reliability and improve traffic management and in the bikes and the walking grass across the city, in order to assure, broad based benefits i have also been seeking the sfmta assurance that will apply to the equity policy and analysis to propositions a and b, programs and i am hopeful that it will be supported i have actually called for a meeting or a hearing at the board of supervisors, to cover that very topic. election night marked another major milestone for transportation in our city and it was 25 years ago, this november, that voters approved the first half cent tax known as proposition b and also created the transportation authority to administer the program and the local transportation sales tax that was reauthorized in three and renamed, proposition k,

city, sro collaborativive. and just a couple of take aways that i had and i know that norman is going to share some of his i was impressed by their work on the city drivers in particular and both are the large vehicles, but any city employee that drives in new york city. and it is something that i think that san francisco should model itself after and use some of their curriculum, and they have the tracking devices on all of the vehicles and the tracking devices, which will track how hard they accelerate and whether they are wearing seat belt and a number of things and the driver, education course is definitely, a whole other level and with mta which is a separate agency from the city, they have now made it their policy that it does not matter whose fault it is, that the driver should always be driving defensely, and i think that those shifts will impact the ability to achieve vision zero and we got to hear from one of the chiefs in sweden and he talked about how they were able to cut the number of deaths in half by 50 percent and actually have the speed limit has been key to that and what they have been able to do to enforce the speed limit is what they, and what they don't call them speed cameras they call them

we put up the wifi projects in the 32 different parks and open spaces throughout the city delivered to the cityh a gift in kind with a five-year maintenance program and no strings attached and we are lucky to partner with google and sf city and all of the work that they are doing throughout san francisco and this is a great testament to the projects here that will deliver the real results to the residents of our city and that will make a difference to everyone living in our neighborhoods which this is all about. to the person, or to the family, that use our parks that sun bathe on the lawn when it is sunny in san francisco or at our ball fields and it helps them get on the phone and surf the internet or e-mail when they need to more important than that, is the tender loin rec center has free wi-fi to be able to enable the staff to conduct the operation and able to communicate in the department and sign up the children in the leaks on the internet that they did not have access to before, and the community groups and the people from the neighborhood that perhaps did not have wi-fi access where th

city. the reason why the legislators picked this location. anison is a very rare city isthmus. relatively narrow surrounded by lakes. very few cities in the world have this distinction. the man who laid out madison have seen washington, d.c. many times. one of his goals was to try to copy the street design that he saw in washington, d.c. he did. all of the streets came together and focus on a public building, such as the capital. that was the key idea. the fact that madison was laid mus surrounded by two lakes have profound implications. people who came here, visitors from the east, people who wanted to settle here, said, my goodness, this is beautiful. because it is beautiful, we have to keep it special. as i have studied madison's probably played a larger role in the history of the city. they not only wanted to build on the natural beauty of madison with the buildings, the human products that we create. there is no question in my mind that the natural beauty placed a high standard on the human construction, and that has been a theme throughout madison's history. the relationsh

kolb: we've worked with the metropolitan transit authority in new york city that runs about a third of the city's buses, to determine which types of buses emit what kinds of pollutants. so one can take the mobile lab and follow the buses as they go about their routes in the city. and as they stop and start take on passengers accelerate, slow down, one can see how both the particle pollutants and the gaseous pollutants they emit change. then you can take the same type of bus and put some emission-control technology on it -- maybe a trap that traps and burns the particles -- and you can see what effect that has on the particle emissions and also what effect it has on the gaseous emissions. narrator: when kolb's team tested these buses they found some unexpected results. kolb: the diesel buses with particle traps did, indeed, emit only about a quarter of the particles that normal diesel buses emitted, but they did emit a large amount of nitrogen dioxide, which is, again, a gas that is a toxic air pollutant. so you have to be careful, when you're trying to solve one pollution problem, that you don't

the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have

various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmenttcity clerk: [administrative code - catastrophic illness programs] ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to designate another city department to carry out various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmentt city clerk: [administrative code - catastrophic illness programs] ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to designate another city department to carry out various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmentt >> 1234 okay. ron. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm had -- the human resources director for the department and i have laura marshall, senior performance analyst

i'm going to encourage you not to make this the only day you walk or get out and enclosure the city i want the city to be your classroom because of the efforts of people standing behind me and your paraprofessionals we're creating the city to explore as their classroom get out and enclosure and bike and run and breath fresh air and eat good food don't eat junk food eat good food to get out and run and bike and enjoy the fresh air so betsy have a great year congratulations on bike walk and roll bike and roll day and make everyday bike walk and roll and rock-and-roll too have a great day (clapping.) all right. thank you strthd next up i want to highlight some of the folks in the community that are getting walking and rolling and bilking to school 0 on a daily basis how many of you walk to school on a regular basis this is incredible so i know that supervisor kim talked about this and at bettingcy i carmichael the community has worked for several years to get the signs; right? and to get the improvement to 7 the and fulsome when you cross the major streets they're safer i want to talk about betsy carm

can get to all of them i thank the mayor for being here not too many buildings in the city are built for those in the city who can't afford the high rents bus this building is for those without i know for mayor ed lee he affordable housing is a high priority in the city and we'll be appreciative of that you gave me ed lee the great mayor of san francisco (clapping.) good morning good morning all right. this is fun to be here leader peel thank you for your your combination and leadership michael and the board of directors and the entire staff and the volunteers that are here everyday thank you, thank you very, very much if i may say on behalf of the the supervisors that are here and the city agencies our chiefs our construction family their workers i want to say thank you to stoimz st. anthony's for providing united states the opportunity to help more people you're right berry and father harding define and michael we're building brand new permanently affordable low income housing in the tenderloin in san francisco and we will do more and more of that (clapping) i just want to say that it's more than just a

there is no fiscal impact to the city in this transaction. the city will not be a party to the loan and it is not an owner of any of the property at issue. however since the city is a party to a 2003 cooperative agreement made with caltrans which transferred certain sfait-owned properties in the area to the city and tjpa and since the city is a party to the board-approved 2008 option agreement for the purchase and sale of those properties, including state-owned property own you had by the city, tjpa and the san francisco redevelopment agency, agency, pars3 now ocii the city has to approve any amendment to any agreement including the option agreement. the city does not incur any indebtedness or approve the structure of the tjpa loan. rather it approves certain conditions which allow tjpa to move forward to obtain the interim financing and the loan it needs to allow the transbay center project to continue construction. the proposed resolution authorizes the director of property to execute the first amendment which permits, among other things, ocii to su

the hud agreements that cover all the yerba buena properties because of the city for the construction work overall moscone the city wants sole control of the site they've agreed to make the financial payment by the off and on fall give the city control of the moscone north side of howard and where the children's are on the south side of howard this is simply an informational action for the commission and the city is honoring it's responsibilities we've identified this process as part of property management plan unfortunately, the complete building and parks and cultural facilities we can't keep them forever we have to transfer them either to the city or another third party this is what we're doing now the oversight board the dissolution law says it is to be transferred with the state department of finance likes to take a second and third look this will be an action item to the oversight board that concludes my report. and i want to acknowledge director heinecke necessary is here to answer any questions on any relied item. >> before i entertain comments from the commission on the executive director report counselor

initially opposed to the idea of home sharing until he heard how it helps people stay in the homes in our city city of meant a lot to me to be a participant to speak on protective that changes that will have a tremendously positive and life changing folk for home sharers across the city we thank commissioner hur for peterson thank you to supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor tang and especially supervisor wiener who chaired the land use committee thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all (clapping). >> again there are so many people to thank but we have a person that representatives thousands of people in san francisco nancy (clapping.) good morning mayor ed lee and supervisor chiu and keep in mind guests i'm honored to tell my story on potrero hill as we sign the mayor select short-term rental activities in san francisco seeing our democratic process in action and participating in that process had not been an sxrirgs i want to thank our board of supervisors for their thoughtful deliberations on this complex legislation their attendance to all our e-mails and hundreds of stories how sharing

city. the city is remembering what happened 25 years ago. >> that autumn, a growing crowd of people took to the streets commanding freedom and political reform. 70,000 marched through the city on october 9. henrik was there, but he was watching, not marching. >> it was a great fear which stopped me from taking part. stopped me from experiencing what my father was doing. to know afterwards that i should have joined them is an internal conflict which i'll never be able to resolve. that's just how it is. >> this is the nikolai church in the old city. it was here that the pastor helped to form the resistance. of course the government focused its powers here, too. >> the police vans were on the side street and body bags were stacked there. it reminded people of china. tiananmen was not so far away in terms of time. there was hope, but also fear. >> the marchers made their way on the nikolai church through the city. his father was with them. two men climbed the church tower to film the now famous images of the demonstration. a couple of hundred meters for that further along, the former head corne