but san francisco is a very expensive city for construction.ead that it's the second most expensive city in the country for construction, second only to manhattan in new york. so you have to be realistic. but if you have a design professional working with you we usually can meet most of our -- your goals and budgets. >> and i just want to emphasize to everybody, work mcgahee design professional, as you know if you've been watching our brown bag lunches, working with a design professional or an act dr. architect or engineer, someone who is trained and knows what's going on, it will be in your best interests. a lot of people say it's a kitchen, i'll use it, i'll figure it out myselfful to be successful you typically do need somebody who has a broader range of understanding the what would make it successful? >> well, obviously, you know, good planning. it's also investigating the existing conditions so you can anticipate problems. for instance, people will place a sink there or a stove there, not realizing we have to put ducts and pipes so if you

this is an expensive city to live in, both for the dog walkers and also for the clients. the more we lower the number of dogs, the more expensive dog walking services will be, so this is one of the things in determining the number. no matter what you do, there are going to be people who are unhappy with it, and there are some very divergent and an irreconcilable views on this. seven or eight would be a reasonable number. supervisor mar: thank you. so, colleagues, if there are no further comment on the amendments, without objection, the three amendments? [gavel] supervisor wiener: i would move that we move this forward with a positive recommendation. supervisor mar: for the january 12, 2012, board of supervisors meeting. january 10, 2012. this is sponsored by the mayor and president david chiu. we have jason elliot. >> i can speak briefly on the mayor's position. i was coming up to talk to emory -- ann marie from planning. let's take a few minutes as people are leaving. we are joined by president chiu. president chiu: thank you, colleagues. we're considering a piece of legi

expenses. do you expect that will be greater than 20%? >> we would try to keep our costs in line with what the city's 2% mandates. leelanwe would track our time bn hours and expenses. it would not be our policy to create all level of these structures. >> does it matter if we put that back in? >> i have no objection. i don't think the commission would. it is consistent with the art enrichment ordinance that is over 40 years old. >supervisor chiu: i would add that. >> the art director will say some -- some words. >> thank you. this is my first day as director of cultural affairs so i am catching up to speed with the legislation. i do know we work closely with the planning department and community partners to vet the amendment so we could keep in the spirit of the legislation by providing additional flexibility but not adding additional burden to developers. i am -- in the spirit of the amendment would increase the flexibility to benefit local artists and enhance expanding the benefit. also by increasing the area of the benefit district. i also wanted to relay on behalf p.j. johnson, he expresses his support to the s

news has compiled an updated list of the world's most expensive cities. at the top, oslo, norway, for the 7th year in a row. it's followed by zurich and geneva, switzerland where salaries are high and the swiss franc is robust. new york city came in at number 14. >>> elizabeth, got to avoid those cities. i don't know if we can afford it. >> i'm surprised san francisco wasn't in the topp 15. >>> everything looks great on the golden gate bridge. the stall on the span, they couldn't locate it so everything is good between marin and san francisco. no delays there and no major roadwork to slow you down so here's a live look across the south bay. coming out of downtown san jose on 280 a few headlights. the guadalupe parkway looks great. 101 so far no delay heading into downtown san francisco. kind of a similar story everywhere you go. we're off to a quiet start on this monday morning. here's live look at your conditions. these are live traffic sensors and you can see from this color- coded guide that speeds are over 40 miles per hour right now through livermore

children, but also a lot of the single mothers that are here because san francisco is a very expensive city. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. muchas gracias. i'm going to read a couple more names. [reading names] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm really angry because i have the opportunity to look over the statistics and to seek where the funding -- see where the funding in spending is going right now. i saw that a lot of money was being spent to pay police officers to scare the riders in the city. i feel like it was made to teach us a lesson, and i encourage you to use that same level of vigilance to go over the measure and use that vigilance so they can stop scaring us in our community. they were treating us like criminals. i feel like criminals are here, the people who are not managing the budget well. i'm grateful for the opportunity to be at this hearing because i was able to open my eyes. i want to encourage you all to look over this budget. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. muchas gracias. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. supe

a big raise for low-paid workers in one of america's most expensive cities. >> mitchell: minimum wage workers in nine states will get pay raises. at 5.15 an hour, georgia and wyoming have the lowest minimum wage. but of as john blackstone tells us, san francisco is topping them all. >> reporter: low-paid workers in san francisco were already getting the highest minimum wage in the country, but for those at the bottom of the pay scale, the boost to $10.24 an hour breaks a barrier. is that a ridiculous sum for a minimum wage? >> no, because the cost of living is very different in different places around the country. in san francisco, it is very high. and so a minimum wage of $10 an hour is not at all high relative to that cost of living. >> reporter: well, former labor secretary robert reich has been a longtime advocate of higher minimum wages, many san francisco employers say this is no time to be forcing a pay raise. this restaurant owner says the increase will come right out of his bottom line. >> you know, especially in this nickel, dime economy. it's not as though we can raise our

new, amber lee is live in the city to show us how expensive smart phones are putting a new twist on an old problem. >> reporter: many bars have put up signs alerting people to keep all personal items with them. now police and those who enjoy the night life are saying pick pockets are on the prowl. many bars and nightclubs packed and patrons prime targets for thieves. one man showed us the new smart phone he bought after his first one was stolen. >> i turned my head for no less than ten seconds and a 500- dollar phone was gone. >> reporter:a at 440 castro they have taken measures, putting coats behind the about and providing a coat check. >> easy to loose track of whereyour things are. we have cracked down and been a lot more aware. >> reporter: at ruby security guards reportedly caught a pick pocket on monday night. he stole five cell phones for a value of $1,700. police are urging women not to hang their purses on the back of chairs. >> i can put my hand in here. >> reporter: police describe the rash of thefts as crimes of opportunity. >> they are looking for the moment that someone l

>> we live in a very expensive city. >> most important getting credit card machines in cabs. >> we have a lot of customers coming in that want to pay by credit card. there are very few that offer that opportunity. >> it is a modern amenity that i think is coming. >> the head of the taxicab commission said the bill does not satisfy the public. >> they can use credit cards come see where they are going trust the driver, get help when they need it, the cabs will be clean. >> the also talked about making all of the cab's the same color. if the measure passes, they expect to see drivers installing credit card reader machines by early summer and to have completed the process for all d.c. taxicabs by the end of the year. reporting live view from the john wilson building, sam ford, abc7 news. >> still had come in a place for your junk up the garbage dump? think again. turning rags into riches. >> three teenagers driving in a car the wrong way along route 50. they hit another car and that man >> you are watching abc7 news at 5:00 on your side. >> there is a two-car accident in anne arundel count

new, amber lee is live in the city to show us how expensive smart phones are putting a new twist on an old problem. >> reporter: many bars have put up signs alerting people to keep all personal items with them. now police and those who enjoy the night life are saying pick pockets are on the prowl. many bars and nightclubs packed and patrons prime targets for thieves. one man showed us the new smart phone he bought after his first one was stolen. >> i turned my head for no less than ten seconds and a 500- dollar phone was gone. >> reporter:a at 440 castro they have taken measures, putting coats behind the about and providing a coat check. >> easy to loose track of whereyour things are. we have cracked down and been a lot more aware. >> reporter: at ruby security guards reportedly caught a pick pocket on monday night. he stole five cell phones for a value of $1,700. police are urging women not to hang their purses on the back of chairs. >> i can put my hand in here. >> reporter: police describe the rash of thefts as crimes of opportunity. >> they are looking for the moment that someone l

those are not big expensive cities but i pay altogether. >> we would be better off with more jobs or fewer jobs that pay more? >> the president of san francisco chamber of commerce says the wage increase could result in layoffs and end up costing consumers. >> let's remember the san francisco businesses to have charge more when we're doling out for products and services. >> reporter: wean een with an increase a minimum wage employee working full time will still only make about $21,000 a year just below the national poverty level. >>> you are wake go up to some new laws and regulations this morning. up next, we'll highlight the changes that affect your changes behind the wheel including one that is aimed to keep drunk drivers off the road for a very long time. and byob, bring your own bag >>> nationwide some 40,000 new state laws take effect today. in california, several of them involve driving and parking. starting today, drivers convicted of three or more indictments can have their driver's license suspended for ten years. child safety seat law will require to be used to a child of

it's an expensive city. >> give it time to adjust. ew orleans and it was a big and scary place. you realize the city is divided up into neighborhoods. you'll get to know your newspaper delivery guy. all within the three-block area don't be overwhelmed by how huge it is. >> that is great advice. >> next up john from chicago. >> how you doing, kathie lee and hoda? >> hey. >> how do you feel about "snl" skits portraying you guys? >> if only they were funny. we don't mind being parodied, but make them funny. unfortunately, everybody who plays hoda gets fired. >> i like the last one. i think she is going to make it. >> thanks, sara. >> thank you, guys. >> still to come, those amazing transformations, our ambush makeovers are coming up. >> another story of reinvention proves you can do it. you can start today. >> if you're having those post holiday blues, we are here to party! >> if you're in the move for a funny "saturday night live" guy, fred armisen is back. but first, these messages. >>> we are back on this try day friday with our first

reporter: it's a strug toll survive on less than ten dollars an hour especially in one of the most expensive citiescountry. she works at mission pie that pays above. >> they started me at $13 which was nuts. it was incredible. >> reporter: while mission pie is able to stay profitable other loyers say breaking the ten dollar barrier may break them. peter gill helps his family manage 20 employees at their three grocery stores and wore worries if business sours he won't be able to afford the higher wages. >> companies won't lower prices just because of higher wages and the consumers won't expect higher prices. >> reporter: some saying having the highest minimum wage isn't the only problem. san francisco is also the only city with a payroll tax of 1.5% and requires nine paid sick days per employee. in san francisco, patty lee. >> tonight banana sam is back behind locked doors. his adventures started last friday when two cuts were found in the mesh and no monkey. then on new year's a man said that he spotted the monkey and lured it back -- into his backpack. police son know if that man or someone else i

reporter: it's a strug toll survive on less than ten dollars an hour especially in one of the most expensive cities in the country. she works at mission pie that pays above. >> they started me at $13 which was nuts. it was incredible. >> reporter: while mission pie is able to stay profitable other loyers say breaking the ten dollar barrier may break them. peter gill helps his family manage 20 employees at their three grocery stores and wore worries if business sours he won't be able to afford the higher wages. >> companies won't lower prices just because of higher wages and the consumers won't expect higher prices. >> reporter: some saying having the highest minimum wage isn't the only problem. san francisco is also the only city with a payroll tax of 1.5% and requires nine paid sick days per employee. in san francisco, patty lee. >> tonight banana sam is back behind locked doors. his adventures started last friday when two cuts were found in the mesh and no monkey. then on new year's a man said that he spotted the monkey and lured it back -- into his backpack. police son know if that man or someon

city with the waterfront. this does not do that. this is a wall, fenced in community. when you think about who will be living here, these are going to be the most expensive condos in the city. you have to keep in mind the fact that there is a growing one% movement of people becoming very aware of this. this is a very important site in terms of accessibility for the waterfront and the environment we want to create that makes people want to come to the waterfront. i do not see this doing that. i would like to mention that i was one of the original members of the golden gateway chess club. we have no other facilities or other sites where this could be duplicated. the tennis courts were eliminated without warning. thank you. >> i am speaking as a reporter on waterfront matters going back to the 1950's. the waterfront has always been very important to me. i am echoing what nan and others have said. if this project is built, it will open the floodgates. developers will line the waterfront with a wall of high rises. thank you. >> good morning. it is usually good afternoon. i am one of those engaged people who seems to show up. i am also involved in green buildi

there was a counsel suggesting they should raise the city's sales tax bite a penny to help pay for the expense. the city sales tax would then be 7%. the states would remain at 6%. this decision comes as school superintendents made their pitches before the board of public works. >> a caver is recovering after being stopped for nearly five hours in a cave in western maryland. one of three county departments that were from 5:30 last night until 10:00 a team to free the man from the jaws of rocks that were to agree feet deep. amazingly the man was not badly injured. crews were on hand from washington and frederick county. the man had been keeping with others at the time of the incident. >> a high-risk mission carried out along the coast. and the navy's seal team that killed osama bin laden was the one carrying out the mission. to come in a statement, president obama hailed the extraordinary courage of the special operation forces involved in that mission, saying he could not have been prouder of their effort. it happened in the cover of darkness, paratroopers going down into somalia to rescue this

the question is, if it is a matter of up front loading of cost, expenses for the city, do we have an opportunity to reevaluate how things get paid for past phase one of the project? >> yes, i think we have an opportunity to really with the payment sources. if the city were to issue debt with the port in a cop, we could look to other sources of payment in the general fund, should these other sources come in, become certain. supervisor chu: thank you. if there are no questions from the committee, why don't we go to the budget analyst's report. >> on page 4 of our report, we report the phase one budget of the pier 27 cruise terminal project is $62 million. that is shown in the attachment on page 7 of our report. table to on page five of our report provides details of the funding sources for this phase one, including the subject requested $8,450,000, which was previously placed on reserve by the board of supervisors. on page five, we point out, as shown in table 2, if the board doesn't approve 9,000,500 to $4,457, that would include the release of reserve of $8 million as well as $603,00

you put all these other cities through the motions of putting together these expensive proposals? rich abandon -- the site is already own the by the uc, university of california berkeley, there's earthquake research going on, wood products, labs going on there. it was kind of an obvious site and it was always put out as sort of the default, quauts i don't, the site against which other sites sort of had to distinguish themselves. >> belva: we're going to stay on site business here. let's talk about a site for this fabled team that had so many hot, on a high, and fell. >> it was sad. but yes, it's proving to be a lot more difficult to get a stadium for the 49ers than you would think. in the glory days when the 49ers and the nfl and so forth were really able to put these things together, every neighborhood, every area, wrs able to build a stadium. now it's kind of like when you want to buy a house and the housing market's fallen apart. you can't put these things together. they're unbelievably expensive. the one in santa clara is $1 billion. they don't return very well because you don

city. since the protests began last year. and she says it is an expensive bruise for a city already in financial distress. reporting from oakland, gill diaz cbs 5. >>> another occupy turf war is brewing in washington, d.c. park police plan to enforce a no camping site where protesters have been living for nearly four months. the move follows complaints about trash and rat problems. occupies are vowing to defend their encampments. >>> and a man walking near the airport was hit by a car at dolittle drive and haggenberger road. the victim has not been identified and was pronounced dead at the scene. the car driver did stop. no one else was injured. >>> and an oakland teen has confessed to killing his adoptive parents. police found the couple's bodies friday in their car outside their home in lake merit. investigators have not released a motive but according to the chronicle, co-workers say that the couple have been having arguments with their son about him spending too much time in the occupy oakland encampment. >>> a man at stanford university has been harass

by offering help to quit, and by making smoking difficult and expensive, new york city has cut the numberf smokers by 35%. taxes here make a pack cost $14. and where can you smoke in new york? i couldn't smoke here in this restaurant. or here, even at the bar. in this office. or in this public park. or even here in times square. 25 states now ban smoking in businesses and restaurants. and that may be even more effective than patches or gums, in turning us into a non-smoking nation. also key, tell your friends and family that you're quitting and get their support. it turns out that quitting takes a lot more than nicotine substitution alone. >> does the patchwork? most people, it takes more than one try. but as we saw in new york city, they're making progress. >> and you seem to say that the most effective thing is making it difficult? >> if you make it hard for people to do and give them an eadsier way to quit, those things together seem to be effective. >> thanks so much, rich. >>> still ahead, as we said, that lullaby everyone's talking about, it is new. we decided to look back at other

those are other big, expense civics liberal, pro labor cities. i hey what they pay together. >> are we better off with more jobs or fewer jobs that pay more? >> the president of san francisco's chamber of commerce, says the wage increase could result in layoffs and end up costing consumers. >> let's remember the san francisco businesses have to charge more when we're doling out bids for products and services. >> reporter: even with the increase, minimum wage employee, working full time can, will still only make $21,000 a year. just below the national poverty level in the newsroom. abc-7 news. >> plastic bags are gone in san jose as of midnight, and consumers will start paying for paper. only restaurants, nonprofits and social organizations will be able to hand out paper bags and they must recycled content. retailers must sell single uses paper bags for ten cents each. >> leigh is here checking on the weather for new year's eve. >> leigh: hard to believe this will be the second driest december on record for the bay area. second driest for san fran

to come up with a range that is, over 12 years, a little less expensive -- a lot less expensive and better for the city in the long run. briefly, the second slide want to talk about is a slide that described the direct cost of this particular legislation that you have before you today. again, we have divided it these costs of into wide and we will do this fiscal year and then over the following 12 years. this fiscal year, we have planning to permit review. that is the $5,800 charge from planning. that is already paid. that has been paid out of dem's current budget. we have estimates of staff time for the department of real estate to work on at the police this. and for the permits that we will need to get from dbi for the work. in this current fiscal year, we anticipate $92,000 in additional costs that we would be to cover. over the following 12 years, we anticipated additional permits, $150,000 for staff time from the department of technology to work with motorola while doing the construction work. and we will have electricity costs for the city-owned sites that we would incur, about $288,000 over 12 y

city, which we do not have. this is more important than an expensive condo that caters just to the wealthy people in this city. it is an architectural disaster. there is no set back. it goes right up to the sidewalk. talk about supply and demand, there is an oversupply of condominiums on the waterfront. the demand is for affordable housing. come on, people. this is unnecessary. you have ferry park right there. you have the club. now, they are going to wreck the club and take away what we desperately need? that is what we need. district 3 does not have enough recreation. we are the worst in the city as far as this is concerned. discouraging cars in major cities, this is what we should be doing. golden gate center, where i live, has empty cars spaces, which they are offering to the ferry market, so there is no complaint about that. there is no merit to this proposal. this is a crazy intersections with traffic. incidentally, spur wanted to put a 600-car garage and there years ago. he does not have a clue, and i defeated that garage, and the same circumstance is taking place right now. it would cause gridlock to t