discretion to allocate them otherwise and there is about a billion of that 4.2 that goes to pay for general city responsibilities which is things like retiree health subsidiaries , health service administration costs and those dollars that we must spend keep city services running and we're obligated do not have a policy choice to make to reduce them without other action and that leaves about $2.5 billion that is available that is truly a matter of policy addition correction so in that light our $715 million is much larger share puts us at about 30% of the total discretionary dollars that are available to allocate and so that is a big portion it's a much bigger portion than when you look at the higher level numbers and that is one of the reasons that our budget is a major factor for the citys general fund balancing plan and vice versa when the general fund is in trouble we're in trouble and when we're in trouble the general fund is in trouble so that's why we're always working very carefully to coordinate with mayor's office and controllers' office on our financial planning so that it alliance wi

discretion to allocate them otherwise and there is about a billion of that 4.2 that goes to pay for general city responsibilities which is things like retiree health subsidiaries , health service administration costs and those dollars that we must spend keep city services running and we're obligated do not have a policy choice to make to reduce them without other action and that leaves about $2.5 billion that

design guidelines in general are implementation documents for city-designed policies and objectives. they partner with planning code to shape new development. they consistent of general principles of design excellence and neighbourhood compatibility to improve the way new projects will look and work. this specifically t san francisco urban design guidelines are intended to do three primary things. to reinforce the general plans urban design elements and as it turns out we have guidelines under the commerce and industry elements also and existing policies, goals and guidelines. so, all the guidelines we have right now, there are about 30-plus guidelines in the city are not affected by this project. those all remain or are in the same neighbourhood they are right now. and it's really a sort of pulls together from the general plan, the urban design element, the commerce and industry element. these essential practices, essential policies and puts them into an implementation guide. so, it is a way of using and implementing that policy. it helps unpack and explain those principles by showin

all this requires an amendment to the city's current general plan. city council h e go- ahead to >> it just shows that there's a huge possibility of what can take place on this property, but it's the beginning of the process and a lot of things have to be answered before we can come up with a specific development plan. >> the city council has given the company the go ahead to study the potential impacts on transportation and existing businesses in the neighborhood. >>> a cafe on the peninsula that's a favorite among locals is shutting down after 35 years. we're talking about the depot cafe at the san carlos caltrain station. the owners say development of a new apartment complex called the transit village has already shut down the restaurant's parking lot and now forced the cafe to close its doors. >> as a loyal customer here for decades, i feel really bad, not because i can't get my good food anymore, but because the people that had this restaurant enjoyed it. it showed on their faces. they enjoyed coming work. they enjoyed serving. >> the depot cafe

that is capital investment that will payoff over the long run and lastly the general fund we talked about there is the city's general fund reserve and this has been the work of the city and the controller and the mayor 's office and over the last many years the city and the board of supervisors adopted the policy to increase the size of the city's general fund reserve it used to be $25 million total for the general fund and that reserve has grown overtime to about 8% of general fund revenues from a fraction of 1% that puts us in more of a standard range where we have re serves that are more proportion at to the size of the city's revenues so that should provide some question with one of these big changes. and then let's see of course revenue generation is our other strategy for mitigateing any of these issues and the more self reliant we have on our revenues and the less we rely on general fund dollars or we're reliant on good news from the state or federals, the less susceptible to those changes so that that's got to be our policy for in sul eighting ourselves from the swings of the financial world so that

the city charter imposed debt limit on general obligation bonds is 3% of the total assessed value of the property in the city. the city's outstanding general obligation bonds equal approximately .88%, if the board of supervisors were to approve the issuance, and the debt ratio increased by .1%, in the limit. additional, the ten-year capital plan, places a policy constraint to ensure property tax rates which fund the city's bond program would not be increased above 2006 levels of 12.01 cents, and proposed sale of these bonds is still consistent with the policy, and we are expecting to price and close the sale of these bonds in february. we have also submitted forms of the financing documents, including the notice of sale, notice of intention to sell, preliminary official statement for the board's approval and review, any questions regarding financing, i can respond to those. >> no questions. thank you very much for the presentation, and miss campbell, presentation? >> in terms of the use of the appropriations of the transportation bonds, we do have a summary on page 16 of our report an

cost though to remove two tons of marble is an estimated $12,000, which would come out of the city's general fund. live in san jose, sandra osborne, kpix5. >>> the state's high speed budget -- the high speed rail is over budget by billions of dollars. now two state lawmakers want an audit. that story coming up. >>> we're tracking a new accident that will make this slow ride even slower along southbound 880 heading into hayward. we'll have all the details and ultimate routes coming up. >>> we are less than 24 hours away from highly anticipated lunar trifecta and what to expect as far as warm weather for today. >>> the growing cause for facebook to shut down new messaging app for kids. over budget.. again. as kpix 5's jessica flores reports: two lawmakers -- a democrat and a republican-- are calling for an audit. jessica.. "we can't ignore the cost , the contract . >>> two lawmakers, a democratic, and a republican are calling for an audit. jessica. >>reporter: the project is supposed to be completed by 2029 but the project has faced delays and it's even almost been derailed completely and face

audit and these look at effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operations throughout the city department and generally we're doing several large audits across the city from an operational perspective. with the city wide audit program, we're assessing the various key business processes across the department for compliance and effectiveness. generally that's really around contracts and are you doing what you say you're doing. as it relates to it and system audits, we look at system, security, design and controls regarding that work and helping around resillancy. we have the whistle blower program and provide audit related services to various departments such as the police department as they're working to resolve audit recommendations from the blue ribbon committee and other regulatory organizations that look at them. we're also looking at the police department, helping the police department accountability program set up their audit function and helping the ethics commission with some audit work as well. at different times departments ask for assistance to shore up in their operational areas and we do so

we're still growing and i think vcu is a driver of that and young people in general moving to the city. >> how did millennials respond to richmond's history? >> i think the folks who are moving into the city, just like i did about 13 years ago, you are surrounded by history basically every single day. but history also means some of the history we're not proud of. it's confederate history that is i think a stain on the city's record, you can say. but if had stead of being stuck in the past and using history as an anchor, we think it should be our foundation to build from and we're writing a new chapter in richmond's history and that's a chapter of being a welcoming, open inclusive city that's tolerant of all cultures and all walks of life. we're head hed down monument avenue. one of the most iconic streets in all things of america. a monument created around 1996/1997 towards arthur ash who is the international tennis star born and bread right here in the city of richmond. right now it's the only monument, statue to an african american on monument avenue. beyond that you'll see statues t

we generally charge the lowest rates of most of our peers. we're getting efficiencies with the city in that function when we're the issuer. so it would be more challenging if you were doing one project every two or three years to cost effectively issue bonds that would have to cover a large amount of time. i think that would fall in the category of things you're colleague was asking about. are there ways we can efficiently do all parts of the transaction and since we are a major part of financing of the housing we would certainly be looking at that. we haven't done exactly that to date but we are always looking for ways to get the money out the cheapest. both our own and the private money. >> and then i think the city is in the process of exploring the idea of creating a municipal bank. will that impact our financing capabilities? >> i will be frank. i have no idea. >> commissioner: and similar to linda's question about the pie chart you provide. from what i understand it sounds like you're anticipating the federal funding section to basically be reduced over time because of the 4%

still growing and i think vcu is a driver of that and i think that just young people in general moving to the city. >> how do millennials respond ton richmond's history? >> you know what? i think the folks who are moving into the city, them just like did i about 13 years ago, you are surrounded by history basically every single day. but it's -- but history also means that it's -- some of the history here we're not proud of, right? it's confederate history that, you know, kind of is, i think, a stain on the city's record, you can say. but, instead of being stuck in the past and using history as an anchor were we think history should be our foundation to build from. i think we're rewriting -- we're writing a new chapter in richmond's history now and that's a chapter of being a welcoming, open, inclusive city that's tolerant of all cultures and, you know, all walks of life. we're heading down monument avenue, one of the most iconic streets in all things america, i think. the one of the first monuments you're going to see on your left say monument i think that was created around 1996, 1997 towards art

thefts, chop shops, burglaries">a press conference was held monday to announce that the general crimes unit is the city'st is described here as an auto burglary epidemicsotthe city's sunset district is one of the locations that has been hit hard by these property crimes sot these park smart flyers with information on how to make your vehicles less attractive to auto burglars are being placed on cars. it is a part of the auto-break-in prevention effort. will it be enough to deter theives? this shop owner says...sot right now any property crime valued less than $950-dollars is considered a misdemeanor offense...

drive from the syrian border, and has acted as a crucial import hub for syrian cities such as nearby homs for generationse live from trade and we are very flexible to deal with any situation. >> reporter: fawaz hamidi runs the special projects department in tripoli's chamber of commerce. the city's businesses, he says, are poised to enjoy a boom from syria's reconstruction. >> we have a long history of trade in tripoli. effectively tripolitans are traders and our historical role used to service syria, iraq and even the gulf, through the mediterranean. in the region we are different in the way that we can create a link between east and west. >> reporter: small businesses in tripoli are also hoping to benefit. in the ancient old quarter of the city, khaled halepi runs a curtains and fabric store. he is a proud, third generation shop-owner, and is confident traders like him will be in high demand once reconstruction starts. >> now all the factories in syria are gone. so they will take their products from tripoli. we are the gate. >> reporter: you feel that way even for yourself? >> yeah, even for myself. cu

of marble, that'll be a little costly and estimate that to be about $12,000 to come out of the city's general. live in san jose, sandra osborne. >>> coffee drinkers in tokyo are getting a teammates of the future. >> the -- taste of the future. >> robots opened up today and robot called sawyer can make up to five cups. last year a cafe opened up in san francisco also featuring a robot bris tailgate party. what do you guys think? >> they're getting better. >> will they bet my name right? >> order your coffee and chitchatting. >> it is. i like that. >> sometimes a way to kill time. >>> we're tracking two motorcycle axes right now. this one is from 238 approaching 880 and has traffic backing up along 580 and we see speeds dip below 35 miles per hour. speeds in the northbound direction along 238 and give yourself extra time if you're getting onto 880 and that'll be a slow ride as well. and lights moving southbound and travel time jumps into the yellow, 13 minute ride down toward 84 on the bridge. dip to 92 special teams see that crash. delays on the stretch and it's in the green looking over to 10

informed immigrant.com site just in terms of resources that could be shared with the conference generally. my city is one square mile at the east span of the bay bridge in emeryville 12,000 residents and 50,000 employees° the daytime. many of them are hotel workers, janitorial staff at mall and office buildings and begun a proactive campaign about reaching out to employers about their rights are in term its of not cooperating with someone who is not caring an active warrant. i'm just really concerned about number of employees in the east bay especially with the trump administration conversations about targeting in northern california. does this have leak a handout we can give to employers about what they can and can't say and do? >> just reminded me to see if the website is updated to how to include that information. but on -- a website we have information that isy, specifically for -- employers some of it is targeted towardse employers who have fos with daca on their staff and then some of it is more generally? response to this environment where their employers who want to know what their obligat

when these travelers come to the city it generates tax revenue for the city. last year an airbnb had collected over ford and $69 million in occupancy taxes for the u.s. and cities are using them for important critical areas. what we have seen with the growing community of travelers who can stay in homes on airbnb, but they are looking for is a connection. they are looking to connect with locals and experience the city through the eyes of the olds. that's why in 2016 we launched airbnb experiences. and now you don't even need to have a home to host pretty good host by sharing your interests to an audience of billions so be it cooking with a new york chef or urban gardening in l.a. these are experiences that like small businesses entrepreneurs and community non-profits. in the case of non-profits airbnb 100% goes to benefit the local nonprofit. locals can now become entrepreneurs and generate supplemental income for neighbors who don't traditionally benefit from tourism. one year we have seen huge growth. we now have over or thousand experiences across 50 states

generation. i think it's our foremost city to be part of the solution we use and talents for us what they are to try and say it's our kids who will struggle and politics can solve when they come to us all through dialogue why choose another route. not peace here in munich it's going to give one good kind of i still in afghanistan for some taliban fighters a new call to arms for taliban leaders a threat to their authority and it was shocked to see the also chose to stave off without any such call karma as thought they were old enough to let us unprecedented access i still and the taliban at this time on al jazeera. we're here to jerusalem bureau cover israeli palestinian affairs we cover the story with a lot of internet we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to give journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and all of the onus for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters. i a

finally, 80% of the global gdp is precisely generated in cities like the ones you lead and represent all of you majors, and whatever -- in the past days heard the expression on the part of several majors saying we are really representing where the rubber hits the road, and it's true. you have to deal with the front line in dealing with citizens and residents and communities, and over the course of the past two days i've heard it from all of the majors, how important the trading relationship among our countries is for the well-being of your communities. so, i think there's very good reasons why we need to get, yes, improved nafta, updated. modernize it but make sure we get it right and keep it going. as you know there are negotiations right now taking place in canada so i won't go into very much detail right now. i'll leave that to the experts. but i think two things -- where are we and what is the for seeable future? i will just mention briefly two comments. the first one is over the course of the last year, on the three countries the governments heard loud voices from governors, may

following up on the website in terms of resources that could be shared with the conference generally. my city is one square mile, we spa of the bay bridge. we have begun a proactive campaign about reaching out to the employers about what their rights are in terms of not cooperating with someone who is not carrying an active warrant. i'm really concerned about the number of employees in the east bay, especially with the trump administration targeting those bay, especially with the trump administration targeting those in northern california. this is have a handout that we can get to employers about what they can and cannot do? >> you just reminded me of how we can update the information on the website. some of the information is targeted toward employers who have folks with daca on their staff, and then, some of it is more generally in response to this environment where there are employers who wanted to know what their obligations are but also what kinds of rights and that they can exercise. similar to i was saying about sort of schools and health care providers adopting what we call safe zone

diversify our sources of renewable energy, to experiment and do the things in our cities in the way of energy generation that fit the needs of our city specifically what advance more generally the overall goal of 100% renewables nationally. something that everyone has embraced formally or informally through the initiatives that we have had here. we are talking specifically about advancing and embracing programs that have worked in the past like the energy block grant program that works so well in so many cities and every city has some big win they can point to that was supported by that program. in addition, in view of the natural disasters that our country had last year, there is a lot of work to do in makingzing the grid and it more resilient and doing it with renewable sources. we believe strongly that congress has a role to play in supporting those efforts. and we are taking up the conversation now with folks on the hill as well as the administration to think hard about how that might work. add was ii wanted to has been asked to talk about this because it is going to be very relevant in our efforts

cities. the primary areas of focus for our review included independent analysis and reporting, the two-year budget cycle, and the timing of the legislative bodies review. we reviewed major trends, particularly in the general fund over the past five years. our source document for this analysis was the city's comprehensive annual financial report. because the most recent financial statement is dated as of june 30th, 2016, the review period is from 11/12 to 15/16. since fiscal year '11-12, revenues have increased from 3 billion to 5.8 billion and expenditures have increased from 3.1 billion to 4.3 billion. we found these actual operating results have been more favorable than projections. i apologize for this chart. some of the key got cut off. so the blue bars show budgeted revenues, and the red bars show budgeted expenditures. the green lines show actual revenues, and the purple lines show actual expenditures. what this table shows you is actual fund revenues have exceeded general fund revenues in each of the five years, and actual general fund expenditures were lower than budgeted general fund expenditures in each of the five years. so this surplus year to year has provided a boost to the city's reserves.

following up on the website in terms of resources that could be shared with the conference generally. my city is one square mile, we spa of the bay bridge. we have begun a proactive campaign about reaching out to the employers about what their rights are in terms of not cooperating with someone who is not carrying an active warrant. i'm really concerned about the number of employees in the east bay, especially with the trump administration targeting those bay, especially with the trump administration targeting those in northern california. this is have a handout that we can get to employers about what they can and cannot do? >> you just reminded me of how we can update the information on the website. some of the information is targeted toward employers who have folks with daca on their staff, and then, some of it is more generally in response to this environment where there are employers who wanted to know what their obligations are but also what kinds of rights and that they can exercise. similar to i was saying about sort of schools and health care providers adopting what we call safe zone

general fund. and even if the nonprofit doesn't spend down the funds by the end of the year, really the department is not obligated to go and return the funds back to the city's general fund. one thing i want to mention with the 19 set-asides that doesn't include fire in here, only police minimum staffing is, the controller's report explored three different types of uniform kind of measures that each should contain that we consider good policy. one is that they should all include an expiration date, a return and suspension trigger. out of the 19 set-asides only the latest rec park one contains all three of these. i heard from some of the public comment and from supervisor fewer that all should have a sunset date. we thought about the idea and if you look at when the latest would expire it's in 2045/2046. when do we make the sunset date, after that or beforehand. if we do it beforehand, we're cutting and impacting the baselines. if we do it afterwards, we have a major problem on our hands in the future and i'm not going to be here at this point but future boards will and it's convenient for me to leave them with that problem. that's why we didn't put a sunset

city. it should stay generally dry. if we get brushed by the edge of preccip, it's tomorrow the snow will impact the city during the midday hours so let's time that out for you through the rest of tonight a mix of rain and snow for the next couple of hours down the show. that should push off the coast by 2:00 a.m. and then we watch phase 2. a line of snow negatively tilted here. what we're talking about is a surface trauf, we call this a norland trauf. what it's doing is pulling in moisture from the ocean and cold air from the north and west and along that axis you get snow showers. that's coming through around 3:00. pretty snow showers there around the city and moving down the shore and exiting the coast later on tomorrow evening. so again general coating to an inch is a good rule of thumb. best chance for 2 inches in the poconos. around an inch with isolated amounts in the lehigh valley. roughly a coating to an inch in the city and suburbs. the worst part of the day will be midday, the afternoon. the afternoon commute

solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into account right open war the city's general security sure the people who paid the price clearly their writeup been prejudiced setting the stage for serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. they're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now south korea has welcomed comments by north korea's leader who said the path of dialogue with seoul is open says he hopes will improve kim jong also says he's only used nuclear weapons threatens to launch button is on his desk. the largest party in israel's governing coalition has passed a resolution calling for the annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank the palestinians want for a future state. rainy and activists are calling for a fifth day of protests on monday thousands of rallied against poverty and corruption in the biggest demonstration since two thousand and nine present house the rouhani is warning the violence is unacceptable. pro-democracy campaign is in hong kong have held their annual new year's day march to demand votes for all the cues that gover

cities that generally don't get it received snow. starting to push to the central part of virginia. where we stand with the advisories. there is a wind chill watch out for the blue ridge. that is looking ahead to the next weather story. late tomorrow and into friday. it will be bone chilling beyond this. winter weather advisory posted for the d.c. area. that is up unt into effect tomorrow morning. hour-by-hour. everything you are fine. heading out this evening, you don't have to worry about snow. just fine. no problems on the road with the weather related problems. once we get to midnight i see snow around the area. i will pause this at 2:00. it will fill in more. here is 4:00. let me say, though, i want to be clear. the farther east you go the greater the chance for snow. heavier the totals will be. this is not the blizzard. the way it looks now unless something major changes. not a huge snow maker but the timing. everything will stick. you wake up tomorrow and look out and get ready for work. oh, man. there is snow on the ground. half an inch up to two. no question it will snarl t

general westmoreland and 90 city had been taken. it was a fact but he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly-superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. and this idea that i have about what happened is not just coming from me. it is coming from the men who were leading this marines and these troopers into these hopeless battles, who were ordered to do so, many of whom later in her career as retired as generals and memories of the army. but they are still furious about the way they and their men were used in hue. brian: who is jack lawrence? mark: jack lawrence was a correspondent for cbs news who did a lot of front-line reporting in vietnam. brian: he interviewed a lieutenant colonel ernest, at the time was he a captain? mark: he was a lieutenant colonel. brian: did he become a general? mark: yes.

cities. and in some instances been intimated by mr. holman or attorney general they should put the mayors of america in jail for following the constitution of the united states. i can't recall a time in history where this has happened, number one. number two, i can't ever recall a situation where someone who professes to want to work with other people punches them in the face first and says now i'd like to talk to you. we are at the united states conference of mayors. almost every year we are here in vit invited to conference to talk. this year it didn't happen. we were supposed to go to the white house this afternoon at 3:00. some mayors will attend. some will not. and let me say at the outset we do not agree in this room on the pathway forward on immigration. it is worth noting, however, if the president of the united states would do their job we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. and if they enacted comprehensive immigration reform the country would be berth off for it [ applause ] >> thank you. but we find ourselves standing at this moment in a very

specially far north and west but thinking generally coating to inch for the city anyway leading to minorravel issues , and depending on whether some additional moisture gets thrown back on shore, upwards of an inch around the shore points generally speaking, but there could be one spot that maybe picks up little bit more than that. just long and short of it is that it is a minor disturbance all things considered. a lot of settling do in it wake. limited sunshine for now, temperatures close to 46. not much movement on the thermometer. colder tomorrow with snow showers, wednesday all clue but cold, we do have again another disturbance thursday night into friday, bringing additional snow showers to the area, guys? >> all right, katie, thank you take ac look outside, i59 at cottman avenue northeast philly so no issues or delays to comment on here. a ship crossing at approximately 5:20, burlington bristol. overnight electrical work scheduled on white horse pike at evesham avenue mongolia township, new jersey, road will be closed from 8:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m., you can use atlantic avenue as a

court over the harbor the city's information technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at san francisco general hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house/senate regional wear-out system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of san francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the city's future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco >> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco