maybe there will be some drag shows, etc.. my clients will answer any questions. commissioner meko: mr. renny, i thank you. no one else supports the idea of pre-application as well as you do. every client or venue you bring before us has done some out reach. let me remind you that the pre- application process really involves meetings with the neighbors prior to submitting the application. i think you know better than anybody the reasoning behind that is that you can learn things in your conversations with the neighbor that end up creating a better application. you can identify problems and structure your application in a way to avoid any conflicts. but i do not see a lot of opposition. you are wrong. i do not see much opposition here. so you have done something right. the problem with the crown was not a problem with after hours. it was just becoming loud toward the 9:00, 10:00 at night. i do not know if triple crown has solved that, but we are not here to judge their application. we are here to judge this one. among the conditions that are proposed by southern st

we have the governor and our state senators and the speaker of the house and the mayor, etc., but we also have some very powerful san franciscans that have been meeting on a regular basis to talk about how we raise roughly $32 million to cover what we project to be at this early stage the city's costs associated with police, transportation, getting the necessary permits, dealing with the necessary organization, and as i say, we are operating under the assumption that we will get selected because we have been holding those meetings and talking to people. we filed for non-profits that is, and we have already had some early commitments of the nation's -- we filed for non- profit status. i have probably spent more that i had taken in, but what i want you to know is that it is with enormous enthusiasm, and as recently as monday, we had a meeting of the acoc, and i do not want to embarrass them, but people like tom perkins, the queen of america's cup racing, resident of san francisco was there. walter and alan newman. pat gallagher, who was president of the convention. alex marron, represe

and that is still on going to arrive at the right mix and match of peers, structures, improvements, etc. the second leg is what is called the america's cup event authority, and that is an entity that has to raise the sponsorship to put on the venues all over the world, including 2012 and 2013 in san francisco. it is an ambitious program by the event authority, and they want to raise $270 million. it has been my opinion from the beginning that that is possible if it is an economic equation where sponsors can see the value of supporting it and that they get an economic return on their sponsorship. we have committed, as the organizing committee, to work with them and introduce them to a number of corporations that are headquartered here, and to that end, we have probably had 20 meetings already, and we have not been selected yet, but we have been working like we have been selected to try to indicate to them that we can open those doors and make those introductions. the burden rests with them to make that argument that a visa or bank of america or whoever this are going to get their money's

. -- equitable land use, etc. they are everything from regional experts such as supporting community gardening in alameda county to employment opportunities for san francisco residents, to local efforts like a project which provides high school students with internship opportunities and connects those young people with public utilities commission mentors. we currently do not have a methodology in place where we are attracting the aggregate financial and non-financial investments of the community benefits programs that are being offered. part of supervisor maxwell, your question around how much is the puc spending, and what is the process for determining those types of expenditures -- what we

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trust technology companies like google apple etc for a specific reason and now they're rewarding them with their behavior as well. you know i think a lot of the points that are being made are really interesting i believe that there is even an appellate judge to be a real we're going to take we're going to do a short break we'll go back to you after the break after the break we'll continue our discussion on post consumers stay with. us. if you want to. bring you the latest in science. since you have heard. the close a team has been to the. way industries are rapidly developing. now wattie goes to the homeland of those with strength of mind and body. to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times and which became a premier destination for nineteenth century political exiles. this is the on screen russia plays out on oxy. if you. want to. welcome crosstown time period remind you we're speaking about the future of consumerism. but before let's see what is important to russians when they are making a purchase. consumerism is often called the home market most the best economies the conc

. -- equitable land use, etc. they are everything from regional experts such as supporting community gardening in alameda county to employment opportunities for san francisco residents, to local efforts like a project which provides high school students with internship opportunities and connects those young people with public utilities commission mentors. we currently do not have a methodology in place where we are attracting the aggregate financial and non-financial investments of the community benefits programs that are being offered. part of supervisor maxwell, your question around how much is the puc spending, and what is the process for determining those types of expenditures -- what we found with the catalog we were able to develop with our consultants is we apart -- we are spending tens of millions of dollars in community benefit efforts, whether it is employment opportunities, partnerships we're doing with the school district -- we have not been as methodical or intentional around that we have a community

liberal we have a very minimum fiscal system or fiscal sorry rate for individuals or for companies etc so it's actually quite liberal from this point of view of the social position it's about russia people think that everything's tightly controlled well yeah it's a myth the reality is that from from an economic and comical perspective the government's really trying very hard to make this country competitive compared to other ones the trouble is that you have other state bodies which have nothing to do about business and don't understand anything about business and that make life very difficult and there are certain that everybody's on the same page that's what alex is saying that everybody's on the same page absolutely in fact. there are some. slow movements. depending on the level so i mean in the higher echelon they want quicker changes so and in the bottom line actually you have some resistance people in regions as we call it they are resistant because probably that me because of internal conflict of interests right now they have a targets monetary targets but in fact when business

outreach here to make sure that the existing thriving businesses there can proceed with their plans, etc. and we're really thinking of this just as a cleanup. the larger portion -- so going back to bayshore boulevard itself, currently it's zoned m-1, which is light industrial. and, again, the yellow line here is this industrial protection zone, which is an overlay. again, the light industrial m-1 zoning is one that is very permissive, and citywide there's been an effort to change that to the p.d.r. zonings, which are tailored to today's needs for industrial areas. as you can see, most of the bayview industrial areas have already been zoned pdr-2, and there was a desire to leave the rezoning along bayshore boulevard from when this economic development framework is in place. so the current proposal for rezoning really ties into the desire for a home improvement sustainable district. and very simply, what the proposal is is to extend the p.d.r. 2, which is the core production distribution and repair area, over to the parcels, all the way to highway 101, and then adjust that with a new speci

the more people we move around by mass transit, the better all of us will be with clean air, etc., thanksupervisor mirkarimi: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, eric byrnes representing san francisco green party and our city. i passed something out to you while you were hearing the beginning of this item that it's one page, if you look on the reverse, it's one full page of text from a report that just came out last month on biofuels and biomass. the reason i bring this up is the underlying resolution here and the report itself are excellent and of course we support it. there is one -- there is one little problem or caveat though and that there isn't -- even though there is some criticism of biofuels in the report, it's not strong enough and there is even a casual reference in the report about the darling facility creating biofuels, the one that just got approved by the port. this report just came out last month, and if you read on the back, the key couple of sentences are not only does this study suggest that ilcu, which stands for indirect land use change that comes f

with the most aggressive alternative fuel program, etc.. we know it works. without taking too much time because we have a lot of speakers coming up, let me try to distill this. this is not democrats or republicans. it is about people coming together. one issue we all come aroutogetr around is the issue of jobs. the state and employment rate is 12%. this is exactly the conversation we need to be having. is not as a celebration and announcement of 2500 jobs and the down payment on that because of what tom and others are doing. if you put $1 billion into a coal plant, he will generate about 870 jobs. if you take that same $1 billion into a nuclear plant, you can generate more than 1500 jobs. it is a little bit better. if you put into solar, it is 1900 jobs. if you put in to win, it is 3300 jobs. here is the game changer. if you want to get serious about jobs and the construction and building trades, changed the way we produce and consume as it relates to buildings. $1 billion invested into upgrading and making buildings more energy efficient generates 7000 jobs

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

these are the same people that eat in our restaurants and purchase in our stores, etc. the last example i just wanted to share with you, to give you a sense of what we have been doing in the direction that the puc is moving is highlighting the first stuart program, which is a collaborative partnership between the sfpuc, the sheriff's department, and the garden project, which many people know about. it engages youth in watershed and horticulture projects. taking lessons from the garden project, which works with former offenders, the earth stewarts program is an intensive 38-week training program for at- risk young women and men of color, ranging from 17 to 25 years old, who had the opportunity to earn a paycheck, continue their education, build life skills, and continued -- contribute to the community environmental project. participants into the trade apprenticeship program. the young people in the program learn horticulture and landscaping through farm and site-specific projects in the field such as organic agriculture. they work with a garden project staffed, puc staff

princeton review, etc.. these contracts here, and also the administratively approved ones, i saw, had a response numbers. one provider with for students or three students -- four students or three students. we at the budget committee said we would ask the curriculum committee to take this up, but i really want the board to be involved in a discussion about the process that we are now using, how we assess the effectiveness, how week -- for instance, one of the things i learned at the committee, years ago, was that there was a pop -- and i should say at least that there is a lot of -- you know, these are services many school districts did not think for a very effective way to spend these federal dollars to help students. it was a process or an opportunity that was presumed to, or known to, largely be the result of lobbying by private providers to the federal government when no child left behind was passed. we were setting up some rules for our own providers and our own schools that seemed logical to me. we ask

how do you rely on contractors, etc.?hat we do and what we are doing, and frankly i cannot take credit for this, the agency started doing this before i joined the agency. is to do several things, senator. one thing is that you need to place a process for actually planning and thinking about in advance what your contracting is, representativwhr saying what contracts we are going to have, etc. yourself, ok, do i have the adequate contractor base? do they have the confidence i need, are they going to be around, etc.? that is the process we are starting. you work at your actual contracts and say, does this contract will people's feet to the fire in a way that makes sense? does the contract require performance and pay them for performing, not for just showing up? senator, we are starting that. in other words, what we are contractors and saying -- some of the contracts do that right of them say we are hiring expect you to meet this standard, but we want you to do better color so we will pay you more if you do better. other cont

the world out by vendors like wal-mart, cbs, etc. -- the rollt by vendors like wal- mart, cvs, etc.his is how we can see cosco des moines. -- see the costs go down. you can go into wal-mart to get your flu shot. some of these new clinics that have been established, they have a nurse practitioners that can swap your throat or your child's throat to see if they have an infection. they can diagnos minor illnesses and so forth. i think that is huge. it is a tremendously profitable undertaking for these organizations are willing to roll these units out. and for american families that do not want to spend a gigantic amount for daily treatment it is helpful. police there are the beginnings of some commercial interest in providing low-cost medical care. not acute care, of course. not for people that are very ill, but for people that need blood pressure monitoring and that's sort of thing, i think the government should be backing this wholeheartedly. maybe that is the middle ground that we should be excited about. host: karen you are on the air with liz peek. caller: i would like to highligh

., etc.she was a woman are not must learn to speak in public. but the combination of that particular story is that probably the second or third month that i was in southwest georgia was the first anniversary of the albany georgia movement, which is the first time that hundreds of people have gone to jail in the fight against segregation, and there were so many people in jail in albany in november of 1960 -- 1961, that they had to ship people to surrounding counties because there was no room in the jails. so we have this anniversary. dr. king was coming to town to speak, etc. etc. so it was a big deal. charlie sherrod selected our coworker, pray theo hall, a woman to the speech and oh my goodness. it had never occurred to me that a woman could preach, but she could preach and even more importantly in terms of who charlie sherrod is, he himself was a baptist minister. any of us who have ever heard him speak now that. there is no reason why he couldn't have just said that he would take the stage

., etc., so i finally get into treatment only to discover that i have hepatitis c." so we want to have that as an integral part because that becomes part of the cultural dynamic. and especially from a religious point of view, because you start feeling that you've been visited by god in a negative way because after all, you finally get your life on a proper course, and boom, you've got to deal with either hiv or you've got to deal with the hepatitides. and when you are dealing with that, that becomes an important part. and the other factors in that sort of i've been doomed by god is also age. as you get older, your body responds differently and what we're finding epidemiologically is that we've got a whole cohort of baby boomers who are flirting with marijuana, prescription drugs and other substances, misuse of alcohol, because they still think they are 25. and they have disposable incomes. and they have the disposable incomes associated with that. so we're finding then this uptick in use of marijuana and other substances. so we need to have treatment programs and pro