i told oppenheimer it would be a great mistake to use the bomb generals cities of japan. well, don't you think that if we tell the russians what we intend to do and use the bomb in japan, the russians will understand it? they'll understand it only tool well, jilad replied. brigadier general clark, who was the military intelligence officer preparing for preparing intercepted japanese cables, quote, when we didn't need to do it and we knew we didn't need to do it, and they knew that we didn't need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs, unquote. this is quoted in "the decision

seismic upgrade to the general city facilities. we achieved a 2.7% rate for a 20-year bond. 38.4 million was sold this morning in addition to $252 million for san francisco general hospital. just short of a million dollars a year would be savings for taxpayers for the auxiliary water supply system. it is very big news and a continuation of what you have heard recently. happy to answer any questions. >> this will have an impact on the rate issue? >> this is the one unique part of the capital plan portfolio that is covered by the property tax bill. voters put it on the property tax bill as opposed to the water bill. >> we will have a comparable study to see where there have been some incidental or other savings by implication? >> this one will show up by allowing the property tax payers to have a less expensive property tax bill. what happens in the case of general obligation bonds -- >> i want to make the connection so the ratepayer knows other areas which benefit the ratepayer. >> every year, there is a one- page pamphlet to show h

the scope of our engagement is found on page 3 of that audit plan, and it includes the general city's audit, the retirement system, the former redevelop the agency, two hospitals. we will have six teams augmented with professionals from two small local businesses assisting us with those audits. included in the audit plan are a summary of upcoming accounting decisions for the upcoming years, and those are found on pages 17 through 19 of the report. fiscal year 2012 is a relatively quiet year for new accounting standard implementations. this will be helpful in that there will be submitted changes in accounting and disclosures related to the dissolution of the city's former rebel the agency and the creation of its successor agency. most of these new accounting standards are technical in nature. however, there two summarized on page 19 that will require time for the city to plan and to evaluate its potential impacts, and those are statement number 67, financial reporting for pension plans, and statement number 68, accounting and financial reporting for pensions. those standards will be re

. >> in fact, there is a citiless policy in the planning, general plan of the city that says keep stuff off the sidewalks so people can use sidewalks much the more we put stuff on the sidewalks the more we have to consider is this keep nothing the city's general plan. its a big issue. here is an old one. a lot of times you are taking utilities that were previously under ground in a vault where they get on their knees and work on and putting them in a cap net because it's easier to service. is this worthwhile for the city to give them this long-term opportunity to occupy city property for the convenience of their service people? you had a question? >> this was one owned by at&t could you require other companies to share it or once its at&t's they keep everybody else out. >> that's an issue we are exploring not only cabinets but the conduits downtown. we are looking for potential subway and they are doing a utility relocation study. you can't imagine how many utilities are under there. on some streets you could take off the pavement and walk on the street on the utilities. we are working

today we have before us the city's community safety element which is part of our city's general plan. the community safety plan has a overawe for actions and response and recovery from a major disaster and protect san francisco with natural and human made disasters and maintain community resiliency after the disaster happens. it includes lessons learned from recent disasters like katrina and the sunamma in japan. this is the first in the general plan since this time and represents a collaboration between agencies. we focused on seize mic hardards and the risk of life is from the ground failure and impact and other impacts. this includes the initiative under way and this makes sure these initiatives will continue. implementation of the community safety element will be carried out through a number of city plans including the city hazard mitigation plan and the program's developed under resilient ss initiatives. state and grant funding is contingent on having updated safety element which we currently don't have and the legislation insures that san francisco is eligible in the future. and

redevelopment agency and the city attorney's memo regarding potential increased liability on the city's general fund, we did bring this item to the board of supervisors without recommendation so that colleagues could take additional time to read through the items and to feel comfortable with supporting these items which we actually have been routinely bringing before the board over the last 15 years, i believe. we did also request hearing just because there has been new news potentially radiologically impacted sites on treasure island. of course there have been concerns amongst residents and we want the board to have opportunity to learn more about these reports and also ask any questions as necessary. so we have the director of the treasure island development authority here to present on both items before us and to answer any connective questions that we might have regarding the navy which is the party we are contracting with, as well as questions about liability. so i did wan want to introduce merriam from the treasure island development authority. >> president chiu: supervisor avalos. >> sup

city those economic sectors that we consider most of valuable for our future. especially in the areas of health care, hospitality, biotech, and the technology in general. we have become dependent on city college for their ability to prepare the future work forces and because of the outstanding training that the college of fords, our economic future is directly tied to the success of our city college. so it is with that that i am presenting today a very important decision. in recognizing the importance of our city college to us as a city, i also want to make sure that we recognize as a family the serious challenges that are before the trustees and before the interim chancellor as we would care to meet them. there will be very difficult and important decision that will need to be made in order to address the recommendations that are set forth by the accreditation committee. there will also be a lot of good faith negotiation that will have to happen in order to protect our city college. but tough decisions and reforms are what city college needs at this time. and we must first protect and serve the students of city college and make sure they remain have ou

of accepting sup standard utilities and how do we invest in those, whether it's the puc or the city's general fund and that's the question we haven't answered yet. >> supervisor avalos: so we could very well have a significant impact to the general fund, and if not, how -- what constraints are there for the puc to be able to take over such utilities, and have the financial wherewithal to do that? >> right. that's one of the issues that we need to discuss, especially on the water and sewer side because we're constrained by -- unless the city actually owns the utilities about capital fund on the utilities because of state law. we can't have our ratepayers subsidizing other ratepayers thp they're not puc ratepayers. >> supervisor avalos: so that's still being worked out. >> that's correct. to supervisor kim's questions there are two federal ent itself, department of labor job center and coast guard and they're starting to engage on some of these discussions about how they will get utility services in the future which may affect o how we discuss capital needs with them 16r789s. >> supervisor aval

as well as the general plan referral, the department planning staff does mrao*ef that this project is compliant and consistent with the city's general plan and there's a next step of approvals in this process, we were in conversations with the san francisco planning department which will give a planning referral prior to future approval for this project. hours in operation would have proposed to operate a high quality, affordable seafood restaurant seating for up to 25 people indoors and 50 people outdoors, it's from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., they have the option to open for breakfast at 7 a.m. should they determine a demand, the closing hours will be reviewed at the first six month of operation when the department can analyze the effects that this operation has on the surrounding area, they will measure the impact of the surrounding community, that's failure to follow hours of operation, impact of lighting in the surrounding aria, garbage from the restaurant and any health violation that is are reported. the department has been meet witching -- meeting with the community and there have been a number of issues that have come up, am

city kid. it's the tax regulations and the regulations that break the backs of the small businesses. when they talk about tax receipt versus employee receipts and they say it's going to generate $40 million but cost them another $8 million, i can guarantee it's going to cost three times that much but what it does is drive businesses out of the city. i am against all tax increases period. >> thank you sir. mr. yee. >> >> so this answer to me is several folds. number one, we got make sure that the government is efficient, so first thing i will do is ask for an audit of the departments and programs and see what works and what doesn't work. if it doesn't work we will get rid of it. we need to support small businesses and i could go through several things why we should do that. they create 50% of the jobs in san francisco and we also need -- i would support giving business incentives like twitter and create the company here and create more jobs for san francisco. by increasing the jobs opportunities and the business of revenues the revenues will increase without taxes. >> mr. bye. >> thank you. i do agree that efficiency is something that really can increase the way money is used

i became interested in it because of various issues surrounding city college at the time. and just in general's a great idea that we all, you know, have some oversight and some look-see at transparency and making sure that the public and the city family has their just due in making sure everything is clean, and moves forward smoothly. i have pretty extensive research and background in studying constitutional law, and in construction, and in these areas. and i really enjoy serving on it. it's not a political position for me. i enjoy being there. i have no aspirations of moving in anywhere else. and really that's about it. i'll be open to any questions. i want to say one last thing. considering what the past issues have been around my appointment, i just want to say that i've -- you know, in hindsight, it would have been probably much better if not just me, but maybe other members of the task force, also we agreed to bring some of these issues forward to you much more ahead of time, so if there were any red flags or anything like that, i think that would have been prudent at the time. thank you

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generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. >> welcome to city hall. thank you for joining us. thank you for coming out. i want to thank members of

. >> every penny of the proceeds from measure m would go unrestricted into the city's general fund. >> reporter: that's chuck finny, the no on the campaign spokesman. this is a city ordnance proposal. and it says it will go in the general fund and will be available for any purpose. t the councilman said there's a reason he didn't allocate the money. >> we don't want a small minority to derail this. >> reporter: richmond people have faith the politicians will go the right thing. >> i think the money, if used right, can do so much good in the city of richmond. >> reporter: and others, the women at this salon aren't so sure. >> i don't think one city should be singled out. >> that doesn't make sense to me. >> educating the community on the dangers of sugary beverages is better than taxing people. >> reporter: the city coalition is doing what it can to defeat the measure, including donating hundreds of thousands of dollars. and more could be spent. >> it's probably the majority of what we're going to spend. but i can't say that for sure. >> reporter: the american beverage association, whi

gross revenues last operating expenses in any debt services and its net revenues would go to this city's general fund. on page 5 of our report, we point out as summarized in table 3 -- on page 9 of our report, the capital improvements total estimated cost are $107 million, over a 20-year time frame and those are further itemized in an attachment on page 21. by golly, we point out on page 11 that because of various unknown factors -- finally, we point out on page 11 -- this includes how much revenues at the city would receive which is still an unknown and we consider approval to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. supervisor chu: thank you. just a final question -- with regard to the revenues that would come in, from my understanding, the revenues would accrue to the city or accrue to pay for debt service is is generally as i understand that net revenues. what effort expenses the produce market incurs would be netted out of iran collected from folks who do not participate in that area. a key to maximizing how much revenue the city gets is making sure expenses are low or reasonable so

generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with

city. you can see the new hospital is going up and is already beautiful. [applause] that is more than a building. it is the future of our hospital. and the general has always been a big part of our city, our past, present, and future. the story of san francisco general started in 1851 san francisco started the board of health. the hospital moved here to potrero avenue. the hospital was rebuilt over the years, offering children's and psychiatric services to respond to the needs of children. in the 1998's, the current hospital was -- the 1990's, the current hospital was built and was one of the first hospitals to open there doors to aids patients. we became famous around the world for that, helping to break the stigma of hiv/aids. the mayor has just arrived. welcome, mayor lee. [applause] we continue to lead and care for the most vulnerable. just last year, the general became the first hospital in the nation to -- program. the hospital will be crucial in improving the health of our city. we look forward to coordinating all of our services, from primary-care clinics to hospitals, according mental and physical health care. this is what our patients

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this major milestone for all of the work that he has done to serve as commission and the city, not only as general manager but as city controller for the last 27 years. thank you for your leadership and your commitment to this city and to this system. >> i want to thank everybody else who has worked on this project. not only the commissioners that are here, but our incoming general manager and all of the staff. i know that there is a lot of staff here. the engineers, the planners, the operators, everybody that has been involved. you can't take on a project like this or a system rebuild without a lot of effort and help. and i want to give a heart-felt thank you to everybody who is here and everybody who is not here who has worked to make this project a success. so thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you, very much. commissioner. and as you can see, it is not just about this reservoir, today. it really is about all of the things that we have accomplished together and we appreciate that so much. one of the groups that we obviously codn't do without is labor. who builds these things, we just anno

everett, and miss johnson, if the city needs to generate new revenue to balance its budget, what new or increased taxes or fees should it consider? çk w miss breed, mr. everett and mr. johnson. >> london breed. i think part of what i see is a lot of waste and i also see a lot of very high salaries. i think we need to start by making sure, for example, when not going to pay for bottled water and that saved the city millions of dollars. i think we need to start looking at things, like cutting the costs on the number of vehicles we use, gas and some of the basics in order to save revenue in that capacity. we also need to look at the salaries. i know that we, as members of the board of supervisors, that is a little bit more difficult, because we get into potentially micromanaging. but in terms of fees, there are a number of ways to look at new fees, but i do think that we need to manage what we have now in a responsible way before we start to open the door to new opportunities to increasing revenue for the city. >> thank you. mr. everett. >> what we need to do is stop raising revenue of

. >> every single penny that's of the proceeds from measure n would go unrestricted into the city's generalund. >> reporter: the no on the campaign spokesman. this is a city ordinance proposal and it says the proceeds of the fee will go into the city's general fund and will be available for any lawful municipal purpose. the councilman says there is a good explanation why he didn't earmark the money specifically toward anti-obesity measures. >> if you stipulate you need two-thirds majority to win. we don't want a small minority to derail this. >> reporter: so richmond residents have faith the politicians will do the right thing and support the measure. >> i think the money if used right can do so much good right here in the city of richmond. >> others, the women at cutin' up hair salon, aren't so sure. >> i don't think one city should be singled out. >> that doesn't make any sense to me. and what are they going to do with the money? >> educating the community on the dangers of sugary beverages is a better idea than taxing people. >> reporter: the community coalition against beverage taxes is

ask for approval of them so we can continue to generate money and to provide those services as spelled out in those co-op agreements with the navy and the city. >> so, in the past, the revenue generated was under the redevelopment agency as it related to tida, now tida doesn't exist as it did in the past so now we see that it's general fund dollars, is that correct? what's generated there in terms of revenue will be considered general fund dollars, what's the new consideration for funding that's generated there? >> general fund dollars, we've always been self-sufficient and we haven't had any monies from redevelopment to take care of any of our expenses on the island, so for that redevelopment discussion, again, i will turn to michael time off to explain for it. i think from what i understand, tida used to have redevelopment-like authority and power and the key difference between what we are in now versus what we were before when there was sort of a redevelopment type distinction, it operated as a quasi city type entity but it wasn't a city department. once that dissolved, the liability became different because we accepted in essence the res

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we are handing it off to generations of youth in the city to understand -- make sure they're prepared. go to our website, it tells you all the things there. iti is about having those items prepared.w we will survive. that is how we get ready and celebrate and honor the people who left us and make sure our city is ready. thank you for being here. congratulations to our survivors. >> very nice job. behind me is a good friend and a great firechief. you go back 106 years. braxton morning. -- good morning. one of the survivors could not be with us. those are amazing changes. it does give us the opportunity to remember what happened. we commemorate those who suffered losses in their lives and hardships. we also celebrate the city that was nearly swept from the map. the fires raged for three days and caused rates -- great devastation. we take the opportunity to educate everyone. it is a pleasure for me to work under the direction of mayor lee. he is a public safety championship. he is a prepared as champion. he lives it. i have seen his kids and his workplace. it is all about teamwork. i am