not just for the fisherman's wharf, but for the entire city. neil, could you show the multiplier effects on the screen again, so that we can see those numbers? up if we could get with sfgovtv? again, if you see the numbers at the bottom, there is simply a 5% increase in tourism that leads to an additional $3 million per year of city funds that come into this. it is possible that we will see much higher benefits, in which case we did see an additional $13 million per year in revenues coming in. i think that that is a pretty compelling reason that sets us apart from other projects. supervisor chu: thank you very much for your comments. in response, i think that we have many noteworthy faces across the city that deserved attention as well. great highway in the ocean brings two million visitors each year. i think that there are opportunities to be more equitable and do this process across the city, perhaps changing the way the infrastructure looks. clearly, we are not fisherman's wharf, but we have opportunities there as well. before we take public

best to make sure i am a chair that represents each and everyone of you, and the interest of the entire city. thank you very much again for your support. i look forward to working with you. we now move to the nomination for vice chair. if we can have -- are there any nominations? commissioner cohen? commissioner cohen: thank you. congratulations to you. i want to nominate commissioner scott wiener to vice chair of the transportation authority. commissioner campos: is there any other nomination? seeing none, nominations are closed. any comments, colleagues? commissioner kim. commissioner kim: i think it is important we have supervises that have made transit their priorities other legislative agenda. i know supervisor wiener has taken an incredible amount of time and commitment to these issues. it is also a representative of the mtc for the mayor. i think these leadership appointments are prepared for these two individuals and am excited to support both of you. commissioner campos: comments? let's open this up to public comment. >> commissioners, let me allude a little bit to what i think a go

then the entire city, given the supply of createive talent, the whole city could be a revolving workt. that would be wonderful. that is what black rock city is. why not transpose that to san francisco? i think the city is now looking at doing art paths for that purpose. it would not be hard, given the abundance of -- after so many years in the desert, there is a huge backlog of brilliant art. magnificent piece is done by armies of artists working together. so that is an obvious things that could be instituted. i also pulled him that we did not have any trash cans in our city. we did not really continue that dialogue. [laughter] >> the question that everyone in san francisco is asking now, i'm going to ask you as a formality. are you going this year? have you ever missed one? have you ever wanted to? >> no. [laughter] at one time, i was very much needed -- i am still needed, from time to time. although, if i and my partners have done our job, we should not be needed that much. i am like anyone else out there. it is a big place. it is hyperactive. not only are there 100 things, but the

if a group get together to give a gift to an entire city, it is easy to find people who will give to that. and the consequence is, you can learn a lot. talk about a networking opportunity. but nobody ever went there to network. they went out there to give their energy, imagination, their heart to something. >> there is that collaboration, the cross-disciplinary thing that happens out there, but i also feel like there is a bit of a sense of competition. people are trying to outdo each other, try to outdo each other trt impressive thing. >> that is human nature. i read a few years ago somebody complaining, i remember the good old days. you could put up a pink flamingo in front of your tent and it was cool. now with all of these big projects, i feel few tile -- futile. well, they learned the wrong lesson. the interesting thing is, people say that they are connected, but in an environment like that, it is easy to get connected. it is easy to get help. unless you insist on being the leader, you will find something to join. that is what my whole career has been, basically. >> speaking of y

this has been an effort with the entire city family, and today, dpw, and so forth. i will talk briefly about project priorities. for those of you who have not been following the rtp process, it is a many-headed beast. it is establishing the long range vision, as the executive director alluded to, but also serves administrative functions. in some ways, this project was is precisely that. rtp is a gatekeeper. in order to be audible to compete for state or federal funds, to get a decision such as and eir, your decision is to be consistent. our focus would working with product sponsors is to make sure in this rtp to any project that meets state or federal funding or needs a federal decision before the next update is in this rtp. at least your prick phases. i should clarify. in terms of san francisco, establishing our long-range priorities happened to the transportation countywide process. we have spoken about that before. in october, we last came to this committee talking about a call for product of the issue for artificially high targets. it was a $6 billion target tha

the entire city was celebrating and lincoln also was celebrating very important victory and came here to ford's theater to see the performance of our american cousin and loved the theater very much. had been here about 12 times in the previous year. we are standing in the theater itself where lincoln was shot the night he was here on april 14th, 1865. cross from me and behind me is the box itself. the presidential box decorated specifically for lincoln's visit that night with the flags. the original portrait of george washington. lincoln got here around 8:30 for the play. the play begun about 30 minutes before and we know that lincoln was a very humble, modest man. he really just wanted to sneak in here and go unnoticed. just go in and sit down and watch the play. unfortunately for him the moment that he arrived there was a famous actress on stage. she noticed him sneaking by and she stopped the play and instructed the orchestra to play hail to the chief. everybody in the theater between 1700 and 2500 people all stood up and gave the president a standing ovation. people were cheering

only 23 are available in the entire city. three are located near facebook. this is one of them, less than a mile from the social networking giant's headquarters. $410,000. this is the most expensive on the list. it costs $4 million. omar says he expects more calls from facebook employees now that many will have more money to spend on the homes >> we are experiencing a sense of urgency both with buyers and sellers around the buzz around this ipo. some buyers are coming to us and saying we want to buy before this happens because we don't want to have to compete. we have also some complaints who have already raced money from facebook on the secondary market. so there are some people out there who are already buying. we have been told as many as a thousand millionaires are going to be made by the ipo. now you've got a lot of people who want to live close to where they work and have disposable income. >>> an american icon -- >> look out for that notorious soul train -- >> pass away. we'll hear from several musical legends why don cornelius had such an impactful r

as a result, i think my district is really emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective that you could possibly want in district 3. so oftentimes, the interest of my district and the city really are quite a line, so i do not have to think about this difference is probably quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. i in particular want to thank the mayor for his decision to protect our nutrition programs. this is something that i think we all believe is incredibly important at a time when we have seen massive federal and state cuts, for us to hold the line locally and stand up in the city of st. francis for our seniors and our nutrition programs and families. i think we have a lot of challenges right now. we are still in the midst of the great recession. we all know way too many folks who are struggling in a minimum wage jobs pirouette of folks who have been laid off at work. i think as a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and more economic development. i know that all of us

. >> that's the cool thing about the fact that this entire city is covered in ice.ryone is experiencing it. it brings people together, because they're all having to deal with it at once.>>> foxes . ♪ ♪ >>> in case you guys didn't already know, formula 1 is my favorite motor sport out there. this is jane rexal and she is participating in the formula 1 experience. typically f 1 cars are just a single seat. she's able to ride behind the driver in this experience. this is in abu dhabi at the circuit. now, f 1 cars can go over 200 miles per hour, they can get from 0 to 60 in less than two seconds. >> wow. >> in addition to their extreme speed these cars are able to come down from 200 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour in no time flat. >> this g-force of that must be so painful, probably takes your stomach. >> some of the gs in these cars can reach 3 to 4 if not more. she can barely keep her head in one place. and brake. >> oh! >> it's like a roller coaster. >> yeah. >> she needs those side pad things they give you at the roller coaster so your head doesn't bounce around

really wonderful -- probably one of the most spectacular places to be in grand central and in the entire cityvery many people actually get to come up here. but what you can see from here that you can't see from down below -- first of all, you get a sense of the scale of the building, how large it really is. you get to experience the many different kinds of motion that occur here. kristen, behind you is the information booth, which is really at the center of the main concourse. it's probably -- we like to think of it as one of the most famous places in new york city. if you tell someone to meet you at the clock in grand central, they know exactly where to go. it's at the center of 43rd street to east-west and park avenue to north-south, and it really is right in the center of the main concourse, and we like to think it's the center of new york city. even if another train were not to come through here, it would still be an important place in new york city for people to come and visit and to see one another and to treat it as a town hall. >> reporting from the nation's largest train terminal, i'

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legislation as a district-elected supervisors, even though this is legislation that impacts the entire cityn the future of health care in san francisco for many years to come. i think it is possible to do both. it is definitely possible. >> let's talk about budgets. the city is faced with tough budget decisions. including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will he make these tough choices -- will you make these tough choices? supervisor campos: the budget is the most important policy document that the city can pass. it reflects the priorities of city government. i believe we have to be creative in how we look at the issue of the budget. it is important for me that certain things happen. i think that public safety has to be a priority in the budget, the public safety cannot be compromised to save a few dollars. but i think the public safety goes beyond funding the police department and the fire department, as important as that is. it includes funding violence prevention programs, after- school programs so someone has -- and people have something to do after school,

san francisco officials are asking you to stop doing something at noon to honor one man in the entire city, we will explain. stay tuned for more news weather and traffic. . >>> welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 news, most people smile when they see balloons but they are warning that these balloons can get tangled up in the power lines. take a look, there are the balloons, we have a video of a mile lar balloon -- my lar balloon. incidents like this can cause serious injuries and the balloons caused 300 outages last year in northern california. >>> they will show tony bennett, his song was recorded nearly 50 years ago. the city wants you to stop what you are doing and sing along. every radio station has also been asked to play the song at noon. 4:55 is your time. if you are having a bad day, stopping and listening to that song will put everyone in a good mood. >>> speaking of northbound 101 it looks good no major problems and it looks good in oakland in both directions road work was not there overnight so it is doing nicely. if you are driving on san mateo bridge, today is better than yeste

now, while some neighborhoods might be under control, the entire city is still surrounded by the government forces. cbs news, syria. >>> a group of major banks have reached the agreement with the white house to put cash back in the pockets of struggling homeowners. the power point and the leaders have said not quite yet. they will be explaninging why they say that the deal is not good enough. >>> president obama has hoped that the settlement with leaving banks has been wrapped up in time for his recent call for the homeowners. >>> no more hidden fee or the conflict for interest. and no more getting the runaround when you call in the loan. >> and thought harrison, others gawked at the $25 billion nationwide settlement. calling it inadequate. in terms of our settlement, we have been supportive of the attorney general. >> reporter: reports of the deal have leaked out. amonothem, the call for a 22,000 markdown for the principal ofhomes under water. meaning they are worth a lot less than what they were bought and a 2-year-old payment to the hundreds of people that lost their homes to foreclosure

because of all of the smoke and the strong winds, they issued a shelter in place for the entire city of vallejo. that smoke eventually blew away from the city. there were no injuries. and as far as they know, no one was inside. >> some lady said it was just some homeless people maybe. >> that could be an unintentional fire set by the homeless. it snot what we're thinking at this point but nothing is off the table. we are going to look at every avenue. >> the fire chief says that the good news is that the building was already slated for demolition. and the federal government had cleaned toxins, that had been inside the warehouse, when it was part of the mayor island naval shipyard. >>> 6:05 now. and i guess changes are coming. we are getting a big rainstorm tomorrow. >> people who love the rain, are you going to like lawrence. >> and i am getting fired up, guys. probably the most significant storm system we've seen in a while and probably the one, probably the last one we will see in some time. as we've got a lot of clouds making their way into the skies right now and you have to look

entire cities brought to a halt and flight cancellations. a look at some of the hardest hit areas. >> it wasn't winter but, rather, almost springlike around the bay area. i'm leigh glaser. you can see here those high clouds moving inland. we have rain on the way. that's coming up in the >> san francisco supervisors are set to vote on a proposal that would except the city's plastic bag began. the current ban would include all retail stores and restaurants. the current ban only includes large grocery stores. the bill requires grocers to charge customer. >> a nsa can blast of winter weather is causing problems worldwide. temperatures plunged to 36 degrees below zero in the you ukraine. the heaviest snowfall ever in bosnia where helps -- helicopters are being used to airlift stranded people. >> at the other end of europe, britain had its first snowfall of the season. more than six inches. heathrow said only half of the schedule flights were likely to leave today. snow continue to hit coastal areas in the sea of japan. >> nothing that severe in o

we have currently 130 checking accounts spread across the entire city and serving for the different departmentsme of transactions and cash is tremendous. upwards of $12 billion in transactions occur over these accounts. annually, as many as 10 million transactions per year is processed into these accounts. that is a large volume of business. whatever funds come in on each day, they are swept right to that account and each evening deposited into the concentration accounts. this allows the city to take advantage of the deposits and not leave them sitting idly in the hands of our financial institutions. they become part of the county pool managers. the services that we contract for with these accounts are inbound deposit services where these institutions handle cash deposits, locked boxes, bank transfers, and bank wires. they also handle credit card processing for us. constituting 1 million and a half dollars annually, credit card transactions. they also handle many outgoing payments whether they be through direct deposits, paper checks, bank transfers, bank wires. we are in the midst of going thr

serving as an example of being a great city employee, not just for the police department, but for the entire city family as a whole. [applause] >> i want to thank the commission for recognizing chuck. that was a great story you told saying that when chuck knows something is amiss, he lets everybody know about it. when chuck knows anything, he lets anybody know about it. so it was my pleasure to have him admission station. he is fabulous. he does the best job making everybody feel at home. i mean, we talk about stats and crime numbers and all that, people are really as safe as they feel. when you have police officers like chuck and captains like bob and commissioners like yourself, it makes it so much easier for all of us who live in san francisco to feel just as we should. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank you all very much. i really appreciate this. i accept this on behalf of all of the police officers that do community policing. sometimes that's not recognized. we understand that small business is the backbone of san francisco and that's what we're here to support. so going out and estab

the other thing that i wanted to mention was that we only have two homerooms in the entire city for medical respite. if there is an outbreak of influenza in the shelter -- [tone] we have no where to put people. it is a very different picture for homeless adults. we do not have the resources. thank you. supervisor avalos: has that changed, over the years? has there been a reduced number? >> it is a larger number of people. people are sicker. it is the numbers. with the same resources. so, the resources were not adequate before. now, you know, we sat around -- i am a mother of an ill child and i cannot imagine not having a roof over my head. we have to make really difficult decisions. it is unbelievable. in a city like this, where there is so much money. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for holding this hearing. in the political director of united educators of san francisco. made a job for 25 years has been classroom teacher. last week we passed a resolution to get the teachers and professionals of san francisco involved in every way

. >> ever since facebook moved to the peninsula, there are only 23 homes for sale in the entire city. this home and patricia is going for 4 million. thank >>pam: this next story is about a man on the top of the waiting list for a kidney transplant and his wife who is a match. his wrote the surgery came to a stop when they found out he is an illegal immigrant. >> this machine keister cases alive. it is his home dialysis treatment. fleet needs a kidney transplant and his family was devastated when the opportunity for surgery was taken away. he says his world collapsed when he found out he could not get the transplant surgery because he is an illegal immigrant. he was recently let go from his job because of its immigration status. he only has insurance into the end of the month. ucsf will not do this are free because he can't get the follow-up care in the knees and he does not qualify for medicare. >>pam: several organizations have come forward to offer support. >> this story is just one of many. we want to support and change policies that are creating even his potential debt. >>pam: we

i think my district is emblematic of the entire city. u can find every political perspective you can possibly want in district 3. oftentimes, the interests of my district and the city are aligned. i do not have to think about those differences quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. >> let's talk about the budget situation. we have been faced with some tough budget decisions again, including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will you approached these hard choices? >> our budget is one of the very top challenges facing city government right now. over each of the years i have served, we have had to balance budget deficits that were around $500 million. this year, we're facing another budget deficit of almost $400 million. fortunately in recent years, we have had some ability to do some one-time budgeting tricks that allow us to balance the budget that do not exist this year. in past years, we've received federal stimulus money. we received more monies from the state government. last year our labor uni

this is an opportunity to develop the use of land that could have greater economic benefit for the entire city, not just the port itself. but i do not feel confident in what we have in terms of projected revenues that are going to come out of the america's cup event that could help the city minimize its costs of what we are going to be putting in to make sure the event can go forward. i do not give a lot of credence to the revenues that are projected to come in. i always take that with a grain of salt. i would expect that we are going to beat -- one question i have is -- is the 60 factoring in what revenue benefits are going to be as we are doing budget projections, based on what we are going to see in additional revenue? does that obviate the need to do better planning in our budget? because we are going to be seeing added revenue come into the city, but it is going to be paying for the event. it is like a circular phenomenon we are seeing. the money we are

we need to grow the entire city. in our case, we are looking at an economy that has industrial roots, historically. we are rivals for a new, green, and tech industries. at last count, we had 250 of them. when we move forward in these new areas, redevelopment was very helpful in terms of the land, the cleanup of the brown fields. i think there will be some state programs that will maintain affordable housing, the brownfield's aspect, and the transit-oriented development. our redevelopment funds are already set and should be safe. we expect a lot of continuation. some of our stuff has already been ok under the deadline. i think there will be new mechanisms. i think steinberg is looking for a way to keep and save both affordable housing and transit- oriented development. >> with what mayor quan said -- as i emphasized in my presentation, one of the most important things that we as mayors need to do is make sure we create an investor-confidence situation here. what redevelopment has taught us is they had investors depend

this is an opportunity to develop the use of land that could have greater economic benefit for the entire city, not just the port itself. but i do not feel confident in what we have in terms of projected revenues that are going to come out of the america's cup event that could help the city minimize its costs of what we are going to be putting in to make sure the event can go forward. i do not give a lot of credence to the revenues that are projected to come in. i always take that with a grain of salt.