etc etc you bring this all together you have the already existing diseases and it becomes dangerous however the there has been is an ongoing response the deployment of the necessary medical kits to the various still existing structures medical teams volunteers being deployed so we hope but again there is no guarantee of course we hope to be able to contain it all together. but there is certainly major risk and again that's why we have a meeting on the highest level bringing all the actors together. to really take and work on an action plan take action work on the action and move forward my last questions and maybe one of the most interesting points that is building dams. government of pakistan has always been in controversy over certain dams especially dams and calabash dams and several times in the northwest and in the south it's a new long term plans did you. assess how you would convince the governments to build such dams that will avoid such a catastrophe in the futures are not up to us to convince the government it is in fact up to the government to in fact review together with its par

., etc. thank you so much for coming back and joining us. elaine has worked for many different from a tiny city, including the san francisco airport finance division, the board of supervisors has a legislative and budget analyst, and most recently, she was the chief financial officer for the department of city planning, so we are extraordinarily lucky to have recruited her to the port, and i wish you a tremendous term, and there's plenty of work still to do, so i did not want to think we did adopt want you to think we did it all in your absence -- i did not want you to think we did it all in your absence. please welcome elaine. next, the project manager in the mayor's office was hoping to be here today to talk about the port of san francisco being able to be the only city in defense of the america's cup, but she is out wooing potential suitors to enhance our bid, so i am going to do my best to give that report. there is not really much to add other than what has already been in the press, but

some of those local suppliers would be a cowgirl premier a., heirloom organic, etc. none of the parties was to protect the site within the park space. this is a nesting site for the blue herons. the selection panel was very impressed with the proposed environment put forward by ortega family enterprises which included certifying the area has an audubon sanctuary. which means that they would follow practices which are designed to limit the impact on nesting and migratory birds. the ira certified a system which is at best managed and practices designed designed to limit the effect of a business operating in a natural habitat. they would have a goal of 85% which exceeds the city's own goals. they would utilize recyclable or other food service products as well as development education programs which includes youth education and nature tours and all work would be done to these standards as well as their proposed to certify the concessions as a cream restaurant within one year of opening operation. they proposed a number of community partnerships that would provide educati

countries in the world etc etc we have the developed economy to do cation etc and then we collapsed and.

many social support services, etc. people are literally waiting months in jail in order to get any kind of bed in a program that might be able to help treat them in the community. >> think you very much. >> thank you. >> i would now like to call miss jennifer freedenbach from the commission on homelessness. >> thank you for asking me to speak tonight. i want to talk a little bit differently from the others. i want to give people ideas of how to get involved. i wanted to start out by talking about the coalition on homelessness and our role. for the past 15 years, i have been working every year on budget work. that is budget justice work. that is calling the budget and looking what the cuts are and what the impacts would be. i also look for potential savings in the budget. i look for expenditures that are harming people or wasteful. and then try to shift those funds over to services to homeless people or to help stave off major cuts. for the past 15 years, whether there has been a surplus or deficit, mental health servic

they had suspicions, they came into facilities where there was fresh paint, etc. so there were suspicions, but they didn't find the iraqis red-handed on it. nuclear in a way was easier, because if you find a, nuclear, you say where is b? if you find b, then where is c? nuclear was the easiest and biological was probably the most difficult. >> can i ask you when you came into your own unmovic position, what lessons did you yourself learn from the unscom experience with regard to what your work would be, the problems and the prospects? >> well, one reason i accepted the task was that i thought that some of the resistance met by unscom was due to the way in which they conducted their inspections. at the iaea we often thought they were too "rambo", if i may say so. they thought that the iaea were like diplomats coming in with striped pants. i thought -- i never thought that humiliating iraq was a very good way. some of the content, i will not generalize, but some of it was i think humiliating. the iaea developed techniques of conversation, of seminars even with iraq,

etc., we're looking at almost $120 million in community benefits paid to the city. ben: the huge projects- i sometimes worry. i've read jane jacobs and "life and death of great american cities" and it seems to me that even the most well-intentioned large-scale projects can go awry. maybe the lots could be divvied up just a little bit smaller? you could have more of a real neighborhood, like you see in certain parts of new york city, where clearly there are tall residential buildings, but they're smaller and next to each other. and it creates more of this vibrant neighborhood with different interests, where you have museums and residences and commercial interests and all different things are right there. that's what keeps a community vibrant. my worry is... what if it doesn't work? what if one of them doesn't work so well? what if it doesn't sell out? what if they end up being kind of empty? what if they're just totally filled up with yuppies? you end up with a very one dimensional neighborhood and that's kind of my great worry. chris: well, i think we're going to ge

, etc., and they have to get everything out of it. i quite understand all of that. but i think the building is not the right building. and for staff to say that the upper tower is now more slender and the amount of square footage has now been transferred lower into the building is just playing with the same amount of square footage without having reduced it one bit from my perspective. so that's my problem is basically that we have a situation from a civic kind of standpoint and a city standpoint that i don't believe this building fits into the environment the way that it's surntly designed. i have no problem with it being 350 square feet. it's just the way that it's massed that i think intrudes upon the area that surrounds this particular location. president miguel: commissioner lee. commissioner lee: i have a little different take on this. i always listen to ms. hester about some of the adverse commute issues that we have is that we're building condos housing from people for google and yahoo!. there are buses to take them down south

etc, etc. i did not cover my face and my hands and my feet. >> she enjoyed being rebellious and distant. i think my generation -- >> in my generation, we had experienced quite a bit of racism in the 1970's an 1980's. we were very aware of the fact that our parents were immigrants and we were not. but we were not accepted and probably would never be accepted. and we look at the muslim world. we were searching for an identity. >> this is what she chooses to do it. >> the muslim identity." these women say they have never been influenced by scholars preaching segregation from western culture, but why did they want to look so different by wearing a head scarf? >> people say it is trying to be different, but the intention is not to rebel against western culture. we go shopping. we wear jeans. we go out with our friends. we go well with our children. in british. i am born british. i am proud to be british. >> i go to work, and the people i work with have absolutely been fine with me. i have been fine

there is a share that -- etc., etc. that share, which for them is a portion of their funding is almost my entire funding so when you say you're going to cut 13% off everybody equally. well, 13% for us is more than 13% of their entire budget than for the other agencies. now the problem is that's the ripple effect we just had here. now they still have their investigators because they have other agencies that provide the investigation. we don't. our investigators are the ones that have to be trimmed off because we can't pay for them. our attorneys, again, they are paid for by the county. we have to cut back our attorneys. meanwhile, the prosecution, yes, they may have to cut back the attorneys. there are a lot of attorneys still being funded by these grant positions. so we're up against a resource that doesn't go down in the same proportional rate as we do. we get contracted further than they are. that's the disparity now. they try find a way to make it cheaper. those ideas are always popping up. you see them all over the

community housing, open space, jobs, etc.hat we like about this development is the very favorable ratio of open space to development. out of the 420 acres, i believe 300 acres are designed, designated open space. wetlands, parklands, and 408 acres of athletic fields. it is from that perspective i speak for the 40 acres of athletic sports fields. our organization has and represent thousands of kids in san francisco and the bay area through our own consideration, the boys and girls club, rhythm and blues c.y.o., ymca, etc. what the kids in san francisco are literally crying out for is quality playing fields. two years ago our own organization was at a crossroads. we were on the verge of dying. so we took an enormous leap of faith and developed 15 acres of derelict lands that was a blight on the island of treasure island and convert it into 15 acres of pristine athletic fields at zero cost to the city of san francisco. but with an estimated cost to our own organization of $5 million. these fields have been enormous benefit to th

that explains the children, in strollers, field trips, etc. it is the fact that traffic volume causes injuries, and district 6, as i mentioned before, has the highest incidence of pedestrian injury in san francisco. traffic is already a nightmare. this project will bring 1640 new workers into the neighborhood. given the fact that the number of children under the age of nine that go to the various preschools i mentioned earlier, that 15% of the 10 buildings have children -- i'm sorry, that 15% of each building has children, each is irresponsible to allow this project to go on. imagine the case that impact on traffic cannot be mitigated -- we disagree. the smaller building, the same height involved as the immediate surroundings buildings will mitigate the impact of traffic. we have said from the beginning we have nothing against anyone building on this side. all we are asking and what we want you to ask is a code- compliant building. -compliant building, the same size as the adjacent structures, would be a much better neighbor for all of us. tha