mayor newsom: it is an honor to have phil ginsberg, the director, with us today. he will be introducing all of the speakers in just a moment. i have to be able to announce this. i am very excited about this. for two months, phil has been wanting to tell everyone about the good work they have been doing for the summer. a preamble is important. there has been a lot of news about the frustration advanced because of cuts over a unified school district. it is appropriate to be concerned. the one under $13 million budget deficit -- the $113 million budget deficit they face means they have to face tough choices. one of the choices announced with immediate impact is for the summer. they're looking to cut roughly 75% of the summer school programs that are traditionally being afforded to our youth. they will just be keeping open some special education programs and programs that are essential to getting credits that high school students need to graduate. overall, the cut is substantial. traditionally, there had been 8000 slots for students. those are being impacted. with tha

ginsberg? >> i just want to thank the team, danny and rick and caring and gm and kelly. -- and karen and jim and kelly. i feel like i am in class when i listen to jim. commissioner sullivan, thinking long term, echoing the conclusion of the report, is duly noted. i think we obviously have had a lot of conversations about identifying sustainable funding sources, but a subset of that, i think we need to come up with a strategy to figure out how to improve the work we need to do on this front. it is a concept that a lot of things come before this commission that are divisive. protecting our trees is not. i think if we take that sort of consensus opinion and figure out how to translate that into a policy idea, to dedicate funding for that purpose, i think we could actually take a very significant step in that direction. so i will do it to things, not remove the trap -- not remove the taxgs, and i will be thinkig about what this team how we can comeback with a strategy for augmenting our resources i

no one needs him more than the guy who is shaking his head, phil ginsberg, our director. you are lucky i'm reappointing mark, phil, who is doing a great job and i'm very excited about what mark has done already just in the few months he has been on this board. but no one is more familiar with city hall and no one with more respect, even from those that sometimes don't always respect what is happening on this side of the aisle and have come to respect greatly mark's leadership and stewardship. thank you for continuing to want to serve. >> kevin, p.u.c., revenue bond oversight. this is where real jobs are being created. 27,000 jobs. regional project and we need to spend the money wisely and that is what kevin has been doing in other capacities and will be doing in it. and beca in be a -- in absentia she want as private swearing in. i know this was long-winded but i'm honored and proud of all of you and i will ask you all to raise your right hand. you can stand if you wish for the heck of it but you don't have to. but if you like to, it just adds to the formal occasion. i wi

ginsberg told me if we could make contributions, that would make him very happy. you don't come to the community and particularly an association that we never heard. you come to us first and say you're thinking about doing this. we will set up a philanthropic fund to pay both the security deposit of our current money and arranges to give you the least amount of money that you want to do your program. we want to continue the program that has been so successful since we have lived here. >> of reach has been very poor. the community kids, and i, were not aware to lease out this clouclubhouse. many of the people who lived in the area are not native english speakers. we request to disapprove the lease in consideration. that appears that this plan was a fait accompli. the genuine effort to work with the community sends the message that we don't count. apparently there was a web survey that determined almost all the responses. i think in the infinite wisdom of this commission, you do not allow this to happen to the playground. on the topic of leasing, the city charter co

justice ginsberg explained this to say that this was a viewpoint policy. think that is just stretching it too far. secoly, richard talked about what a stupid policy this was part os. is it the role of the court to go in and second-guess what is a stupid or reasonable academic policy? is this something we should generally leave up to the administrators of the schools? if you go back to the other cases mo likerse vs. frederick, you see a lot of discussion from the justes on the importance of deferring to the school administrators. in this case they might not like the result as much but this is an unresolvable stupid policy that the justices to reject shld strike down. there's a bit of a role rersal there. in terms of the question of state power -- one critical thing to understand is that nobody was forcing the group to do any thing that this school where is was not the there was no prescriptive law that forced them tadmit members. you don't have to bece a school-funded group at hastings but if you do, you have to abide by the viewpoint neutral restrictions t

allen ginsberg wrote a wonderful few words about it. i struggle to read it. i want to appreciate it. how revolutionary activist, 1960's beat literary renaissance, a road in life and politics. humorous, both union -- bohemian, 20 century radical, the equanimity exemplary in political and mystical moats. a great woman poet, the second half of the american century. she delivered a major body of verse, brilliant in its particular day. as a dyslexic, those words were more difficult than they may appear. particularity. i love that. it is an honor to formally announced we already informally announced, our fifth pole of laureate in our great city and county of san francisco, diane diprima. congratulations and welcome. [applause] >> wow, look at all of these folks. are any of you one of my five kids? [laughter] i just wanted to be very brief, because we're going to do a more formal inaugural thing, and inaugural event, so i'm not going to take a lot of time now. there is a lot of stuff going on at 11 in the morning in san francisco. people have to do this and that. so

that is why, in some ways, it should not surprise you that phil ginsberg and members of the commission have committed to do something extraordinary, considering the limitation of resources. i will allow phil to accounts -- announce exactly what it is. he has been very enthusiastic. [applause] >> i do not know where to go from there. let's jump right into it. we're offering three times as many summer camps this summer as we did last year. mayor newsom: you are tripling the number of summer camp opportunities. you are doing that in this economic environment compared to last year. >> we are tripling the number of summer camp opportunities. we will have 57 different camps, that is triple the number of which offered last year. 28,000 slots triple the number that we offered last year. in partnership with the housing authority, we're going to offer camp registration slots to all children live in public housing units for free. [applause] mayor newsom: that is a big deal. people are wondering how you can afford to do this. >> three strategies. partnership, we've worked closely with the people t

under then chairman joe biden to help secure the nomination of ruth bader-ginsberg. and now one of the most active members of the supreme court. i know you will join with me in expressing our sympathy to justice ginsberg on the loss of her husband. work i working in the clinton white house, doing as she described it, mostly policy work. policy is quite difference than intense legal work. for example, in the office of legal council or some of the divisions in the department of justice. during her white house years the nominee was the central figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonald case shows the personal right of every american who own a gun hangs by a single vote on the supreme court. miss kagan was also the point person for the clinton administration's effort to bl k block -- abortions. perhaps she was the key person who convinced president obama to cha who convinced president clinton to change his mind on that precedure.clinton to change his mind on that precedure. her actions punished the milita

the senator should know if you want to talk "twilight" in the supreme court, you go to ruth baden ginsberg's the twi-hard in the bunch. so that cost us each about $12 in taxpayer money, i think. this is pretty great. this is from "the bachelor." it ended four months ago, but the drama seems to just be getting started. vienna, the young lady jake picked, even though no one liked her, just did another interview with "star" magazine. apparently on the reunion special that airs monday night, vienna called jake a fame whore. but today she told "star" she'll be appearing in "playboy" later this year. i think somebody needs to pull vienna aside and just explain what fame whore means. she said "playboy" offered her $250,000, she needs the money and she's been looking for the opportunity to show the world her genitals, so it all works out. but here's the twist. "playboy" says they have no idea what she's talking about. a spokesman said we haven't spoken to vienna. she said she filled out the little cardboard form in the middle of the magazine and thought it was a done deal, but -- so, unless she ha

. >> reporter: and a smaller film this fall, playing alan ginsberg in "howl," a role he's receiving criticalt prince charming. >> reporter: as for the soap career, his character exits this month. but not before franco got to do some acting alongside his mother. >> she saw me acting. my brother started acting. i think she wanted in on it. >> reporter: her character, you guessed it, his mother. this being a soap opera, and this being james franco -- >> i love you, mom. >> oh, i love you, too, bobby. >> reporter: their on-screen relationship will be anything but simple. yes, that was his mother. he plays franco. his name in real life is james franco. he played a serial killer who is actually a performance artist, as well. his move to the soaps, it comes in time. they've been cut in half. they're hoping that something like this could help revive the industry. >> did he get into that tux because he knew he had an interview with you? >> everyone dresses up for me. no. we talked to him before his last scene. so, you should have seen. there were hundreds of people out there. fans galore. it was his

justice ginsberg explained this to say that this was a viewpoint policy. think that is just stretching it too far. secondly, richard talked about what a stupid policy this was part os. is it the role of the court to go in and second-guess what is a stupid or reasonable academic policy? is this something we should generally leave up to the administrators of the schools? if you go back to the other cases mo likerse vs. frederick, you see a lot of discussion from the justices on the importance of deferring to the school administrators. in this case they might not like the result as much but this is an unresolvable stupid policy that the justices to reject should strike down. there's a bit of a role reversal there. in terms of the question of state power -- one critical thing to understand is that nobody was forcing the group to do any thing that this school where this was not the there was no prescriptive law that forced them to admit members. you don't have to become a school-funded group at hastings but if you do, you have to abide by the viewpoint neutral

justice ginsberg explained this to say that this was a viewpoint policy.ink that is just stretching it too far. secondly, richard talked about what a stupid policy this was part os. is it the role of the court to go in and second-guess what is a stupid or reasonable academic policy? is this something we should generally leave up to the administrators of the schools? if you go back to the other cases mo likerse vs. frederick, you see a lot of discussion from the justices on the importance of deferring to the school administrators. this case they might not like the result as much but this is an unresolvable stupid policy that the justices to reject should strike down. there's a bit of a role reversal there. in terms of the question of state power -- one critical thing to understand is that nobody was forcing the group to do any thing that this school where this was not the there was no prcriptive law that forced them to admit members. you don't have to become a school-funded group at hastings but if you do, you have to abide by the viewpoint neutral restrict

she voted with but justice ruth baker ginsberg more than any other colleagues on the court." there is a pace here -- a piece here on elena kagan, jeffrey smith riding "beginning this week on the supreme court nomination of elena kagan, skeptical lawmakers could not resist the opportunity to search for a weak point that might -- that might provoke controversy. six republican senators submitted questions that produce 74 pages of written responses. her answers, released friday, more finely sanded to avoid any clamor. elena kagan carefully hewed to the themes he struck at last month's hearings. in cases in which she was the opinion, she said, it was that the supreme court's justice thurgood marshall." jerrick is joining us from maine, good morning. caller: good morning. myself, i am a moderate fiscal conservative. happening at the federal level and at the state level, there are too many executive agencies. to many executive agencies that are spending money when we can combine all those into larger departments to save money. i am a student here in washington, d.c. i am studying po

although justice ginsberg's decision in homestead was really not a call in support of the community-based treatment model as we would have liked, it did open the door. more important, it shut the door on the arguments this was not an admissible way to deal with people with disabilities. i think that the mechanisms available are group homes, our support to families who retain children with disabilities in their homes. our son lives at an assisted community environment, and he is semi-independent, as i said, in an apartment. all of those, i think in the aggregate, pale in costs when you look at the massive costs on the record of our prior institutional is asian regiment. so it cannot be a cost factor. it has to be a factor that depends upon the imagination of people who are in this field and government, aided and abetted by very vocal community of parents and providers and caregivers that have traditionally been at the front end of advocacy in this country. i do not go down either the path of saying that this is too difficult to do or the path this is a cannot afford it. i think both of tho

we clearly saw justice so the moyer and ginsberg want to overturn heller. they are not content to merely chip away at it, but want to get the right as a meaningful individual right entirely. they would replace with it a right that said it's only individual and only for the militia and who knows what the militia is. maybe that's just when you're on duty in the national guard. they would make the second amendment nullified. >> do you have any comment, mr. olson? >> read the heller case carefully. the opinion of even the dissenting judges, justice breir and others accepted the fact that the second amendment protected an individual right but went on to say it's all a matter of the scope of the right. you haven't gotten that commitment from solicitor general kagan. in other words, if she were to go on to the court with what we know about her now, she could be the most anti-gun justice on that court. >> i appreciate all your testimony here. i know you all have sincerely given us the best you can. this is a particularly difficult thing for a lot of us. you can't h

mayor newsom: it is an honor to have phil ginsberg, the director, with us today. he will be introducing all of the speakers in just a moment. i have to be able to announce this.