we were the first city to that with reference to women. [applause] i don't think there is any of the municipality anywhere in this country that ever matched what we did it in terms of trying to inspire women to become full participants in the pursuit of justice and equality. i am just delighted to present this award. all of you who have been responsible, i am delighted that it will go on my wall. my daughter susan -- somebody thinks i am the man of the year. [applause] >> we have one more quick presentation. before we do, a couple of people mentioned the past women's summit. a lot of women lead that an audience. there are others. if we could just ask you to stand up, because we want to recognize you for the work you did and the history you created. thank you. [applause] >> and we have something else for mayor brown. i'm really happy to present him one of our awards today. for all those years he has been working on the death star. he has done all of the things to support us, and we especially want to give him this award for being the first

but san francisco will be the first city in the 15 -- in the 50 states to develop a national policy for president obama in 2012. i have been using medical marijuana and it has promoted racism. another thing i found out, in bayview, on the 29th, this chicken is so good it can help you get over racism, homophobia. it was so good i started crying. i thought i was at a funeral. if we need more people to eat some of this. j &j fish is good. i am telling you. i want to ask the brothers at bca. we need you to come to city hall this friday and give out what you know about aids and how it is affecting us. we need a national policy on this. i want you to supervise our loved. the fish, good fish that makes you feel godly. president chiu: thank you for that. the next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. and the circus we call the board of supervisors. we do things a little different in the bay area than the rest of the nation, don't we? yes, they rip you off constitutionally. for 165 years, we have horse boarding in the county of san francisco. at its epicenter, it is ground ze

i think we are fortunate to not be the first city rolling this out and we can learn from other cities. washington, d.c., for example, after a successful rollout, the first wave of expansion was not about putting more bikes on the street, but more stations. we can learn from other cities. we will be hiring a vendor that had done this summer else, so they have all the experience that comes with that. a lot of it is just paying attention and acting quickly. >> any more questions? commissioners? thank you very much. a very exciting program. i am looking forward to the outcome. thank you. >> item 11. new business. >> is there any public comment on new business? >> item 12. public comment. >> we do have some speaker currents. curtis lynn. >> i represent some of the pier 38 tenants. we are trying to work with the port for a resolution of pier 38 issues to try to save the largest business and job incubator on the west coast. we would like to become the developer of pier 38. we would like to do the following. we would immediately repair all of the code and safety problems. we would deliver the

about traffic, noise, alcohol use, security and other issues. >>> west hollywood could become the first city in the nation to ban the sale of fur clothing. the city council clouted -- voted unanimously to support a ban after heated debates that lasted into the morning. critics say banning the sale of fur will significantly hurt local businesses. the city council will meet again in two weeks to work out details of the ban before taking a final vote. >>> construction on the new b.a.r.t. connector to oakland airport is causing a road lane closure. a lane to airport drive between ron conway parkway and doolittle drive will be closed until friday. drivers are being asked to drive more slow slip during the construction zone and give yourself extra time. the washington connector should be -- the b.a.r.t. connector should be completed by 2014. >>> we'll tell you how the bay area is bucking a national economic trend, especially in one particular place that you see here. >>> stocks rising tau r, at least the day -- today, at least the day is, carnival corporation is up and also the feds. the dow is up

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravit

we talk about being a transit first city, but everyone has had the experience of sitting in gridlock, waiting for the bus, trying to hail that tab, walking on pedestrian sidewalks that are not particularly safe. as a city, we need to do more to invest in the first-class transportation system. >> what are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> in addition to the local economy that impacts the merchant corridors, to many vacant storefronts, transit issues, in every neighborhood we're having a real conversation about how we change, whether we should preserve aspects of the important characters of our neighborhood or think about building new things. there is also a real discussion we're having in many neighborhoods about affordability. i hear from too many tenants in the process of being evicted, homeowners being foreclosed on. we need to think about how all of us can continue to live in a city where the whole world wants to be. >> it is a great place to be. >> it is a great place to be. how do you balance the needs of your district versus the needs of the city as a whole? >>

this is supposed to be a showpiece city for public transportation. it is transit first and passengers last. >> thank you. >> i'm going to follow up on the comments about bus zones being occupied. it would help if you folks as an agency put out the word to other city departments and the muni staff that you don't parquet city vehicle. that is most often what i see. i've got -- going back years ago, city ambulances parked there on their lunch hour. fire engines park there when they're buying groceries. dump trucks parked there. muni repair trucks parked there and sit when they're not doing work. the vehicles are not occupied and there are no cones out. too often, city employees get a pass and the other problem is with clear channel. when they come to clean, they park in the middle of a bus zone. they don't even try to pull to the back end. because they figure they are there for a few minutes, they figure they're going to get away with not getting a ticket. city employees to often also figure they're not going to get a ticket. but you need to make this known to other city a

san francisco is proud to be a transit-first city.vor using public transportation or walking or riding bikes to get around town. our transit-first policy promotes public health, build community, and because of 100% of our public transportation system is powered by either carbon-neutral electricity or by a diesel, is significantly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. we're also building the infrastructure necessary to put in place state of the air public transportation such as high- speed rail and electrified caltrain system, expanding or subway network and bus rapid transit. high-speed rail, as many of you know, needs to be a part of our transportation future. many of you are already under way with high-speed rail projects in your respective countries. in california in san francisco, we're trying to lead the way. this issue is critical to me as mayor, because our economic future depends upon people being able to move throughout our state with ease on roads, rails, and in the skies. currently, nearly one-third of all of our air traff

first concern. i have been working with the city attorney, the port attorney. we have an interagency agreement between the five agencies i mentioned and a lot of the language in there is about mutual indemnification, holding people harmless. there will be a waiver. really, the city and port will not be a party to the contract with the vendor, and we will not own the bicycles. there will be owned by the vendor or the air district. this is for the duration of the pilot. once the pilot period end, our hope is we put transition seamlessly into a more permanent system, which would be expanded. at that point, we would have to transition into intricate -- different arrangement. we do not know what that would look like, but we have all sort of sign on the line that we would figure it out as it goes. in other cities, it is done differently. in washington, d.c., it is done on a franchise basis. in minneapolis, it is operated by a private nonprofit. >> i think i have seen them in d.c., i thought that they had credit card machines. >> if you are a day member, or a month re

in the city, especially they're inner openable. our police and fire and first responders are able to communicate with each other extremely well. when you get out into the other counties, when you get out into mutual aid situations, we do a pretty good job there. but there are limitations in our voice network because we have what i call a system of systems. each county and the core cities have built their own networks and in some cases there are little quirks and differences in those networks that interfere with the ability to use our radios, say in oakland or for oakland's folks to come to san mateo county and use their radios but we're getting there. we're getting there on the voice side. we're able to -- to achieve a pretty good measure of inner operability in our voice communications today. in the broadband data side, it's a little different story. most of the jurisdictions in the bay area rely on commercial services. your verizon air cards, your smart phones, commercial services that you purchase just like you purchase your smart phone today. so -- so in ma

please invest in open taxi access and make san francisco the first city in the world was transparent have ability. it is accept -- no increase has made the geographic extremes in more appealing. your predecessor removed open access from the table. if the council has recommended it to be reconsidered. please make this google maps of the cab industry and reality. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. firstly, i wish to welcome mr. rieskin as manager. this is an agency -- he said he would fix muni by 2012. the mta board fixed him. that record shows -- joins the record under the heels -- wheels. now is the time to repair the damage that has been done. these thoughts come to mind. mta strike a balance between the needs of passengers, motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. there is no legal reason to preclude pedestrian -- the pedestrian sasafety advisor in committee. in light of the recent tragic deaths, pedestrians must be able to cross the intersection without being run over by many coaches and bicyclists. there is also a strong and irrational prejudice against unnecessary use of automobile

we are, not only in name, a transit-first city. we also want to make sure that, if we are to accomplish that goal that we set out some years ago with my predecessor gavin newsom, a board that we all agreed to, every agency in this city, that we are going to reduce our emissions in our city by 2020 below the levels and be a leader in the rest of the world and keep our status as the greenest city in north america wears -- we're going to have to work that much harder and be very focused and dedicated and i want so much to do that for this city, because we want to be and continue to be the leadership of bicycles and alternative travel on our streets. i want to thank our dutch friends for being here, for having invited ed and board president david chiu and so many other leaders to host their way at the look other cities in the netherlands have been increasing bicycle opportunities for everyone to participate. the last time i was in amsterdam was in 1969, council general, and it was in high school where our high school choir was blessed

cannabis supporters tout oakland as the first city in the country to license cannabis.a few years ago oakland passed a tax and passed a law to allow cannabis businesses. >> it comes to show how far the industry has come that we can have an event in front of oakland city hall that is for the medical cannabis community. >>> for the past few years the expo has been held in the bay view city. major jean quan told us organizers have already consulted for oakland pd. if there's any incidents on saturday, the festival will shutdown. >>> aaa is reporting that 6.6 million people will drive to their destination this holiday week end. aaa says people are still concerned about the economy and gas prices. the average price for a gallon of gas is $3.81 a gallon in california up 8-cents from just a week ago. this is no holiday for the highway patrol, officers will be out in maximum patrol for the labor day weekend looking for drunk drivers. next year more than 1,500 people were arrested for driving under the influence. 21 people were also killed. >>> of those 21 people about 50% may h

san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot of options for transit are not well thought out in places further from downtown. my district is one place where we need to create better options. >> you mentioned muni and the changes that are happening. what about parking, traffic, is the area safer for pedestrians? >> there is always a lot of work to do with pedestrians. making sure the department of parking and traffic is painting along alemany. along balboa park station, geneva, san jose, pushing hard to get a ramp for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street, especially if you are pushing a stroller or are in a wheelchair. you have to go further than you but typically have to. there is so much more to do. we have to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars, speeding through and make it unsafe for pedestrians. sidewalks are not very convenient for people. it takes a lot of money to do that, but it is really about being vigilant and looking at the fund the come through the transportation authority. we have been extendi

we will be when we get through the process the first city on the west coast to be e-map certified and one of the very few in the nation so we're very excited about that. just to piggyback on the mayor's remarks about resiliency. we have been working as part of the clinton global initiative on resilient efforts with the harvard kennedy school and so this year, you will be hearing much more upcoming disaster council meetings about the plans that we're putting in place and we're very excited about that. going to roll it out beyond just emergency preparedness and into the economy and health and transportation and other areas. something that is very exciting, on i think october 15th, we're going to kickoff a new app, iphone

if the ban passes, concord will become the first city in contra costa county to have a downtown smoking ban. >>> it is a recipe for controversy. a group of republican students at cal is planning a bake sale to protest a policy they say is racist. but the student government says it's the bake sale itself that's racist. the increased diversity bake sale will be held tomorrow on campus. now what has people really upset is how the baked goods will be sold. whites will pay the most, while native americans pay the least and women get a discount. college republicans say the bill is meant to draw attention to an w bill that would allow california public universities to consider an applicant's race, gender and ethnicity in the admission's process. >>> time to get a check on weather. meteorologist christina lorton tell us about t are you give to give us flying to diagnosecy cyst for the weather? >> start out nice and mild, the getting the best of it right odgo today, monday, looking . good. look a this live shot. you can see for miles, s ate of san francisco. ye, just breath taking, get a g coupl