we are fighting for our city and for our education. everyone in this room and everyone on the board of supervisors believes in equal opportunity, equal access, and equal education. that is who we are. we are san francisco strong. we are san francisco strong for equal education, equal opportunities, equal access, and equal civil rights. we are strong. 800,000 residents, voters, students, and immigrants, faculty, staff, department chairs, we are san francisco strong. our businesses, communities, neighborhoods and our city college neighborhood campuses and programs, we are san francisco strong. and we are against inequality in education, opportunity, access, and limits that political groups outside of san francisco are demanding and trying to force on us. we are san francisco strong and we are against inequality. we are san francisco strong for our city and neighborhoods. we are san francisco strong for city college of san francisco and our students in all our neighborhoods now and in the future. today you heard heroic stories and it's ve

look, the only reason i ran for city council in the first place... was because i got a water bill for $30,000 and i couldn't find anybody to do anything about it. so i decided if no one was available to help an ordinary citizen solve his problem, then somebody ought to step in. i thought that someone might be me. anyway, i know people are tired of getting ripped off. and i don't care if it's by government officials who only care about getting reelected... or by developers who are only interested in making big profits. yeah. tell 'em, jess. i'll only make one promise... and that is to work for the interests of the people in this community. thank you very much. it's too bad, jess. for a while there, you really had a shot. honey ! jess, jess, jess jess, jess ! you wanted to speak to me, hassan ? rosa, i have enjoyed your company very much these past many weeks. i've enjoyed yours hassan. i'm going back to egypt, so i would like to ask you something. oh, yes, i almost forgot. i promised to give you some of my recipes. no, no, no. i have something to tell

again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work but, you know, i don't stand here alone and do the job alone i do it with over 2 hundred folks in the tax collectors office. i want to run detain the great seconds of our office. i want to recognize florence mar who is going to be implementing our gross receipts tax. our bureaucracy of tax she is incredible she's bringing in over $100 million a major to make sure everybody pace what they on the other hand, and sonya thank you for your work. we process numerous transactions through the mail on line and over the phone and it's our cashiers that bring in the money. our office of financial empowerment mayor we're doing great work. our gross receipts project is led by jenny and that's an exciting project the biggest change to our tax system in the city and we're stepping up. our it groping group is led by richar

thank you for standing with city college. thank you for standing. thank you for standing with the students and the faculty and the staff and community and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] >>> there is little that i can add to this. folks know that i usually have something to say. but i think so much has been said today. it is so important. what i will say is that this resolution, as important as it is, is one step in getting back city college of san francisco and we have many more steps to take. what is very, very important is that the administration -- is that chancellor brice harris up in sacramento, is that everyone understand that the steps to saving city college of san francisco are not about shutting out you or the people in this room or the elected board of trustees. they can't have a city college of san francisco without all of us in the picture, without all of us contributing. (applause) >>> so what this college is for this city. city college of san francisco belongs to san francisco. they can't do it would you tell us. a

you have truly be everywhere and raised the bar for city employees and citizens alike. you have a wit and charm that attracted tor est from all over the globe and i want to thank you for your incredible serve frs the city and thank you for keeping us safe [inaudible] that is when [inaudible] was on time. i want to say on behalf of all on the board of supervisors , thank you for everything. officer car pain >> i would like to say [inaudible] acknowledgment from the board of supervisors. they represent the city and county of san francisco, not just the citizens, but world wide. what i strived for in the marine corps, people will recognize i try to be a example for those that become behind me. i always love the city and will continue to love the city and put the city brv everything else mpts it is a great haun toor say thank you for being choseen for this and not only-it black history month, that is fine, but it should be black history year. every year, the whole year. we need to be recognize squd step up and need to show that the black community is up to par with any other

the changes proposed for the city's first source ordinance will give an even greater impact because for the first time it declares our city believes construction workers in the private sector deserve a family-supporting wage. it also calls upon developers to have apprentices from the state approved programs on their construction sites. i could tell you with certainty that there are active construction sites in our community being built by workers being paid next to nothing with no health care coverage and few, if any, additional benefits. on these projects, hundreds of opportunities for our youth, veterans, and ex-offenders to be in a state-approved apprenticeship program are lost since they simply won't use apprentices on these projects. these improvements to the local hire and first source ordinances are not only good for construction workers, it's good for everyone in san francisco because it means tens of millions in wages currently leaving our community will be spent here, generating sales taxes to support the social programs important to us all. i believe a strong economy is depen

like taking i didn't see story the shipyard is our remarkable progress for the city recovering from the great recession. it represents the challenges that san francisco still is a place for working families and teachers our firefighters and our seniors can call home. a year ago i declared the state of how city to be vitality and strong with san francisco moving in the right direction. thought 2013 because of our rent also prostitute for our people all of the robust recovery continues. last year san francisco was the nations number one large community for job growth adding jobs in every sector. yes, from technology to health care to construction and merchandising. and unemployment today stands up at the 5.2 percent down from 9.5 when i first took office (clapping) my fellow san franciscans that means 42 thousand plus of jobs were created since 2011 and resident are back to work. as a result, the height budget refers our cities credit rating is the highest in history (clapping) and at the dawn of this new year 2014 our city is virtually and a strong indeed strong financially and economica

you know, it's not about the city college being popular it's necessary for us to or have our city college. it's necessary for job creation and business and educational goals for all our residents. you'll not find very few people in the city who have not been touched by our city college. the dictating backdrop with 0 trustees and special trustee here and bryce representing the states chandler's office and the teachers the certified union that represents them along with the individual elected trustees we're here to say we're taking care of business. and this relationship that we're building here is not going to end because of the challenge to accreditation. we're actually widening the set a relationship with the city and all the education leader and financial leaders on a course that will continue to support city college forever. so with senator leno's leadership under stabilization it's one huge parole in an ongoing discussion to make sure that the of him challenges that are identified as part of the accreditation is taken into consideration we don't want a self, if you will, challenge bec

for accommodations. again, same time, same location, room 421, city hall. and we will send that to you by e-mail. >> carla, i have one question as well. during the trainings, i was curious if there ever needed to be covered a fourth module when it comes to complaints and request. when it comes to communicating or working with people with disabilities and making sure the communication is effective and understanding between both parties especially when it comes to local government officials. i know there was an issue that arose during a disaster training. i wonder if there is a way to improve upon communication between the both parties between people with disabilities and local government. >> sure. and effective communication with the module is not only about making the coordinator an aware of the obligation but also different resources and it would include some disability etiquette about the proper way to talk with people and to ask people what is it? how can i assist you? thank you for that comment. >> thank you. >> my next item is on the mayor's office wit

alex tweets, cities for culture and cities lead and suburbs follow. lyon writes i love the city but most have terrible public schools. i also love having a yard of mine own for me it's the suburbs with frequent trips into philly, new york and d.c. tweet us or leave your comments on facebook. more people are choosing to live in cities than suburbs. author of the great book "the end of the suburbs where the american dream is moving." lee is assistant managing editor at fortune. >> thank you for having me. >> i didn't really realize that this change had happened where more people are moving into cities. people are still moving to the suburbs. it's not a flight from the suburbs into the cities. what is your sense of what is behind this. >> reporter: your encapsulation was one of the best encapsulation of the trend and why we're here. >> i read your book well. >> reporter: kudos for you. this data is just the latest of data that has come out every couple of months to show you that this is a seismic shift here. some people want to live in the suburbs but th

those stresses make it hard for cities to respond effectively to shocks and it's difficult to restoreunctions in the wake of catastrophe. despite the technology we can't also precinct what it will be but cities can take action to mitigate the disruption when crises are unavailable. this this requires an investment of the resources about money and human capital. the thing about investing in resistance it doesn't just benefit a city when a disaster strikes but when done properly it produces jobs and better social services and other examples of what we call the realigns diversified something that benefits residents everyday per we at the rockefeller foundation have been working over a decade in past katrina new orleans and asia cities across 8 countries black and white super storm sandy and so there the reinvestment go programs we have public-private partnerships that invest in an segregated way on infrastructure. we've been working with the state of california and the 3 other west coast states oregon and washington and british columbia columbia to develop the interest infrastructure cha

, and it is important for everybody in the city. but, it is most important for those who need it most. and my mind the testimony here this afternoon, and then before the youth and i hope very much we could do the low income seniors, and disabled persons as well and i extend this to the people who are 18 and i would add my voice to those who are opposing a $6 fare to the fline as a little guidance here. and as we go, and going forward, so much of the budget is based on the hope and the prediction that we will be able to pass these budget measure thises fall and i hope that several of the organizations have offered support for that and it is really important going forward that the city as a whole, unite behind these because it is good for these programs, and it is good for the system as a whole and therefore, the entire city. so with that, vice chair, we have... >> yes, thank you to everybody who showed up to talk on this issue. it is really good to hear from you all and i always enjoy seeing all of you come down here and so i do appre

i mean, if there's too much to cover in a short term the whole reason for the mitigation is the wrongdoing that the city has done to the community and its community has been eliminate in the opportunity to participate from the technical all the way down to the outreach strategy it needs to change >> thank you for your input and we welcome our input. does that conclude your - >> yeah. i want to make a couple of statements. first of all, i want to make sure it's clear that we are not just we're looking for people to participate and informing on green infrastructure and if someone is an expert no matter where they were we want the best theme we can do not only in the 92414 but all the infrastructure over the city. what's important as of the placement of the green infrastructure is important we'll focus on layers focus in the community. the other thing on outreach i'll recommend you kind of look at the groups we've stolen e spoken with to be educated we've done a lot of stuff and looking at one sheet you probability want to look at all the meetings and talk to espanol and francisco about the technologies i

for football. they said i haven't seen this many cranes in american city for such a long time. it's very exciting. and mayor, i wasn't able to join you in court, but i will join you to our most important city and that is our sister in italy. thanks again for your leadership and in taking this city to a new direction and preserving it's past and celebrating it's presence and making sure it's future is as strong. let's give mayor another round of applause. [ applause ] so now i would like to clues to -- introduce you to my other boss, the board share of the traveling association and the board share of the improvement district and the square, david maeld man. >> thank you joe, thank you mayor lee for all of your support, and your leadership. it's such a great time to be in san francisco. tourism is just coming and that's due to your efforts and your administration's efforts. thank you very much. san francisco travel. as joe mentioned, i kind of wear three hats but i'm standing in the middle of my world. union square improvement districts and tremendous work that they are doing down

. >> item 7, for an additional of 1 year period, not to exceed 167,000 for city built services for phase two of the city of park way project. modifying agreement terms and non-material agreement terms and non-conditions. this is a national item. >> okay. colleagues, comments or questions? seeing none, we'll go on to public comments. public comments is open on item number 7. seeing none, we'll close the comments. and another roll call vote. [roll call]. >> item passes. >> item passes. let's go on to our next item. >> item number 8, amend the adopted fiscal year to increase revenue by 2, 907, 000. decrease other financing sources by 290 million, 23, 510. and amend the prop k strategic plan. this is a national item. >> thank you. colleagues, any comments or questions? okay. public comments? public comments open on item number 8. seeing no one from the public, we'll close the item and have another vote [roll call vote]. >> this item passes. >> item passes. let's go on to our item from the plans and programs committee, item number 9. >> item number 9, allocate 4 million 252 in prop k funds. a

a city for people and a city four for our residents and to stay in our homes >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so that we can live in harm many especially those who are seniors and frail and old. thank you (clapping.) thank you, ms. lee and our last speakers or speaker is in district 8 please welcome jeremy michael's (clapping.) my name is jeremy michael's i'm a senior living with hiv aids i've been fight for my rent control home of 19 years and ultimately from san francisco itself without the protection of rent control i wouldn't be able to live her. two years ago my building was sold to releasing spectators who's wanted to make that a single-family unit. within two months of the purpose they hazed me to vacate along with an ellis act eviction. i delighted those offers one by one i received an ventilation under the ellis act which technically i had one year to vacant. i put up a website site and a joined with the eviction free folks of san francisco a coalition and getting miff a great lawyer steve callingier here today with steve's

for those events four city used the opportunity to get the input on their project and for the go ship a lot of the staff went down to see how it was operating ken from our homeland security team went down and wanted to see the site safety and was impressed by the plan. some of the key license terms with four cities expecting between 70 and one hundred events and they may have facilities on the premiums and they'll pay a $2,400 a month fee for the staff to support of event. the revenues a lot of the expenses will help in the predevelopment costs and the revenues will help to pay back the trees development that will help. and effort city has worked to retain a partner which is peter and george there's the ones that put on the go ship on halloween and run similar events that are highly recommended to the board. lastly effort city will have a permit for entertainment that allows them to take advantage have special events and as part of that securing the place of entertainment permit they need to do significant outreach to the community including working with our regulatory partners includ

city. we've embraced this as cultural and trade for censures and tourism. the most visible influence of fravrns france what can be found in our monument to the city beautiful. it's a movement that was designed by the architect arthur brown who was trained in paris and our city hall was designed. some might say that still isn't france greatest influence in san francisco but might be the legacy of french bakers who brought flour do you get during the california gold rush, you know, do you get is a culinary traditions and the most important french companies were founded by french immigrants who recipe shill lives on today, it's the oldest continuing running company. so mr. president, i hope you'll see how much we san franciscans value our french county to our character and the quality of our city. you have a standing invitation to visit whatever you want and our doors will be open to you. it's with great honor i hereby present to you the key to the city of san francisco (clapping.) mr. president, >> ladies and gentlemen, i know that in san francisco everybody d

in 497 six the city requested rent funding not only for the plant but for the recreational facilities mitigation. epa supported in effort and wrote a letter to the state board that said in light of the southeast expansion we believe that extensive efforts should be made and it will rest in part in the understanding that recreational facilities will be provided to mitigate impacts by placing a play field on top of the clarify fizz consequentially we occur with the state board to require the construction of such facilities. subsequential they were eligible for grant funding for the proximity of the area and the eir processes that has to be mitigated and the epa support. sometime later in 1897 six the city staff determined the cost of the recreational facilities was doubled their original estimation and the proper maintenance would be impossible because of the elevation and form of the bayview hunters point community didn't support this aspect of the project. so for the next 3 years at the city and staff and community members developed a plan that identified mitigation measures consisten

we do work for other entities that exist in the city besides the america's cup >> thank you. bring them back >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i come from pier 23 cafe i've been on the waterfront for thirty years. i support of the america's cup very much we had the best year and had a lot of fun it was a lot of work it was everyday a different day and new excitement and things to anticipate. we had a biggest work staff that we've ever had we hired quite a few of the people that worked the entire time during the america's cup starting with the predicaments. i definitely think that more live feeds throughout the city would expand the enthusiasm for the america's cup if 43 they come back. some people were confused you but it seems like there's an easy way to expand the information. i really was expressed with the fact we didn't have any delivery problems at the restaurants the traffic was taken care of the knowledge bark was closed off for parking but didn't impact our business. so the organization that was put the into the america's cup 34 c

thank you all for coming today. >> madam clerk call the next item, please. city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from droug

entered into an mo u the city agreed to reinforce the port for expenses not renting out property so the america's cup would have the venues. those were the total costs of $4 million the city rshsz the port so when you talk about the ports revenue this subtracts out the businesses what we might have had to pay the port for the increased businesses that's counted in i i don't have the report with me but 1.6 million for the port to make improvements optional peer 29 for the event >> so there are also other costs related to the event i'm not sure their nooshgd in. i know in 2011 or maybe 2012 there was discussion about jefferson street and improvements made to jefferson street. there were different levels of support that gently street would get and the higher level was justified because of the preparation for america's cup. i'm not sure where the city landed on that but other capital projects around america's cup that may have been impacted i wonder where were you able to factor those >> the 4 million is just the number that the port was reinforced they had an additional 5.5 million

unanticipated given how we budget for power. >> and have you made any contracts for the spring already? >> new york city we haven't done any forward purchasing for the spring. we can, we can -- some time we find the published prices for power are pretty low and if you strike a forward deal, they just charge you more for it. so, when we're in that situation, we stick with purchasing on the spot market and not making a forward commitment for the power. so, it's all based on the he economics at the moment. >> and could you share with us, you know, via paper like who you've actually purchased from heretofore this year and also the ongoing basis who you will purchase from? that will be important for us. >> certainly. for who we have purchased from because those are consummated deals that were recorded. as i said, i don't think we have a forward purchase plan. if i'm wrong, we can provide the answer to you. i think the answer is going to be there are none. >> and are those purchases that are made, are they approved by the public utilities commission or -- >> we have an energy trading policy that's been approv

after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price un

i'd like to thank our 2010 and 2011 along with the heads for giving back to the city for the giant team last year. thank you giant (clapping) and in 2013 we brought 3 w if any, to our city thanks to supervisor farrell and in 2014 we'll continue to connect our folks to the cloud. and we'll continue to invest in the quiet machine of our small businesses with our ata assistance program our job squad and on line business portal. we must continue to support our nonprofits they provide vitality in front line services to our resident. and just like many of the clients on low income it's tough to absorb an there in rent so i applaud supervisor kim and supervisor chiu and look forward to working with them for practical solutions. you know, in 2013 president chiu authorized groundbreaking legislation that i was proud to sign to guarantee san francisco as a friendly workplace. we can be at the national forefront by ray's the minimum wage (clapping) folks, you know, how many of us can get by open this town on $10.46 an hour. there's a ingress consensus among liberals that raising the minimum what t

city college. so, i thank you very much for working to get public ownership, public oversight of city college back. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, sir. we will now hear from dr. greer. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much for this much needed bill that we will pass. i just would like to thank everyone who is here today. it is so wonderful to be here to hear your voices and togive real input from experience. so, i'm going to be brief and i hope that the letter that i had written just tells everything i feel, everything i think up to now. and we want to move forward from that position. (applause) >> i just want to make three points, and they have already been made, but i just would like to add just a little bit of more information to it. and look at the pros and cons. if we look at what's happening now with the administrators that are at city college, the pros is that we -- well, if we had the faculty staff and students, we would have recruitment that we know how to do. we would have more students coming to city college and we would even do better in a time of crisis with trying to inc

. >> the city is responsible for what happened in the hospital. the sheriff department said there's disciplinary action pending. >> we don't think reassigning a couple deputies is a full enough price to pay. >> the city has 45 days to accept or decline this suit. >> live in san francisco. ktvu. >> oakland police say a man found burned to death in oakland over the weekend committed suicide. the body of richard fen was found. the police determined he set himself on fire. >> we're treating it as a suicide. we have not indicated it's a homicide. it appears to be a suicide. >> tseng -- feng was the nephew of fong who was killed. >>> 67-year-old larry bringing was found guilty. he will serve six months of probation. he said he was sorry for what he had done. he retired in 2010 after 22 years of service. >>> the former executive director of the peninsula symphony association is facing prison. steven carlson is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands from the symphony. it was almost forced to shut down. two endowments worth $400,000 combined were left wi

last november the voters of san francisco passed proposition d which has now made it official city policy for our city to employ all available resource he he to reducing the cost of pharmaceutical medications. this is a measure that was passed by an overwhelming majority of voters and placed on the ballot with 18,000 san francisco signatures. the resolution we have in front of us, and i want to thank both supervisors wiener and campos for their co-sponsorship, is the next step in moving forward with this commitment. and specifically the resolution asks the city to commit to four things. first, to ask the department of public health to explore the feasibility of using consumer websites to provide cost and price comparisons for specific medications by san franciscans. secondly, to ask our city to pursue the extension of the federal 340 b drug pricing program to inpatient settings in our city's federal legislative agenda for this year. thirdly, it states that our board would support legislation to increase transparency and pricing for health care and prescription drugs. and then finally, the fir

the city expenses includes the environmental review for 25 million it's less than the original estimates of 50 million because the city departments operating costs were less because of fewer speculators - >> i'm sorry, i don't want to cut you off but when you say port expenditures of 4.56 million the port did the economic by the people from the america's cup event. >> that's right i'll go through those. that's the city department costs 89 million were for virile review so in some instances like muni they incurred revolts but those are net we accounted for the revenues. the city entered into an mo u the city agreed to reinforce the port for expenses not renting out property so the america's cup would have the venues. those were the total costs of $4 million the city rshsz the port so when you talk about the ports revenue this subtracts out the businesses what we might have had to pay the port for the increased businesses that's counted in i i don't have the report with me but 1.6 million for the port to make improvements optional peer 29 for the event >> so there are also other costs rela