great. this type of project will make this type of city of san francisco san francisco better. this type of building and structure along with open space make a contribution to the fabric of the city but address the important issues every time the storm drains rush and pollute the bay from an open parking lot and piers are polluting the bay. san francisco is a great city this open space and along with economic growth that will continue with the type of economic support of small and large business organizations will be for a long-term a great addition to this great city. thank you >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm nick. i am part of the planning association for the richmond i'm on the park and rec committee. i want to talk about the passively lesson. i don't know how many of you are out in the passively lesson it will be so easy for me to get to a game. i'll be able to jump on the 38 from embarcadero to the passively lesson t is beautiful walk it's quick and easy. with the giants game as well. i remember a kid in high school cutting a couple of classes here and there to get a

expertise to help the running of city and a continue to make the city save for everyone we have a great city. those are elements and part of the successful city. i want to say to you myself and all my colleagues here depend upon the great accomplishments the great collaboration that you bring to city government and i want to congratulate each and every one of you and many of you for the first time to be part of the cities official family to get things done and to open up what the city means to everyone else who lives and wants to be here. so with that if you're ready. is everyone ready. if i may i want to ask all the appoint tests to stand up and raise our right hand and after i say after the word ii want you all to say your name loud and proud and say what commission to which you'll be appointed to. if i may. i >> i. >> one by one. >> that's what i said loud and proud. what's that? (inaudible). >> denise commission. >> derrick disabled - disability council. >> laura west from san francisco conservatism corp. >> barbara ann investment board. >> treasure island authority. >> john urban force

and as a former airport employee at the sf 0 you can't have a great city without a great airport. we have a great city that what protect the reputation but to enhance our cities standing and a recognition as a leader internationally when it comes to human rights if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> any questions? seeing none. thank you very much. next speaker >> hello supervisors and good afternoon. i'm maggie. thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to present to you this afternoon in consideration of having me on this committee. i'm you currently an employee i work in the film office. any time folks come to town to get permits thaim i'm their person. i'm enrolled here in class and people are always talking about you in class. i worked in the mayor's office as a schedule and worked in the outreach program. i did environmental outreach throughout san francisco in our diverse community. prior to working in the film office i volunteered for the harvey milk foundation. i was a lead so i've put on some events in san francisco including our candle light pr

heavily trafficked parks and plazas in our city so we can have the greatest impact throughout our great city. i want to thank sf city for their strong partnership in this project. we started working together a little over a year ago. they are not only the leading effect knowledge jai voice in san francisco, but they really stepped up to the plate to be the project manager here who are going to oversee the installation of this project. and i want to thank in particular alex turk for his leadership during this effort. i certainly want to thank our department of technology and its new leader mark tuitu for also stepping up to the plate. mark is such a visionary and i think we have years of great things to come out of our department of technology and this is just the first step. and lastly i want to thank my staff and in particular wherever margo is, mar co-kelly. -- margo kelly. margo spent the last two years quarterbacking this project. she spent so many hours of her life dedicate today bringing this to the residents of san francisco and we shall all be incredibly thankful. the benefits of fre

it's a great city. >> it is a great city. >> the chamber of commerce doesn't feel that way.hey are absolutely freaking out. it's giving them a really bad reputation. >> robert doolittle is a city hall reporter from the toronto star. soon-to-be released book "crazy town the rob ford story." you've actually unlike most people you have actually seen the video appearing to show rob ford smoking crack. can you describe what it actually shows? >> sure. it's about a minute and a half long. the man who is obviously rob ford is sitting in kind of a button up shirt. it's open at the top. he's sitting down in front of a white wall in the sunshine. he's jerking, bobbing around in his chair. he's slurring. he's mumbling. his eyes are fluttering. and he smokes from what looks like a crack pipe. he also utters racist and homophobic slurs in the short clip. >> who is he making slurs against? >> the leader of the federal liberty party, he calls him an fag. >> so what's the rules that say you can't show this video? what's going on? >> right. well, it's important to note since the star and gaw

the mayor said he wants to support ourcy city and respect them and pay a great deal of attention. s can appreciate the change and there's so much going on with this city. the commissioner looked at two relaxed during the invest. and barring also known as comments us. i want to thank you for your visit here. although he's been here before this is his first official visit. his commencemee emt our staff c together and challenge great information about technology. health care, transportation are changing industrial areas like we've done in mission bay. literally we're looking at how we have progressed and at the same time paying great respect to our roles as environmental leaders in the world. i know san francisco and barring also known as are joining many other international cities as we deal with global warming across the world. barring also known as are a robust city they have high-speed rail coming into their city. we're looking at the this we're linked to an infrastructure. i want to thank the council general and being here and have such great service i want to thank the deputy ch

i've been, of course, very lucky to be the mayor of this great city. we've had a innovation of great history whether for humans rights or same-sex marriage that's been that spirit in our city. we never left regional or national problems get to us. but i found i've been lucky to the mayor we were faced with very traditionally financial systems that were not going to save us from the likes of detroit and stockton and others. we were really looking at whether we were going to continue to do the same thanks that would bring others into financial problems. i took the realm hoping that all of my years of experience i could have confidence and billed the spirit where we weren't trying to blame each other and except where we are and find the talented the magic between the board of supervisors and at the mayor's office but then the fiscal talent in the city that business talent in the city bring them together with all the neighborhood leaders and find solutions and create those things in ways we, talk about the problems and see the facts. i think that's incredib

a great city, teotihuacan, dominated the basin of mexico. atop a hill in the valley of oaxaca, sits monte alban, the royal center of a mighty kingdom. and in the forests and jungles of guatemala, maya city states once reigned over thousands of square miles. this is mesoamerica. at about a.d. 700, three great civilizations had emerged here. the realms of the maya. the power of the great city of teotihuacan. the zapotec kingdom of monte alban. for many scholars the differences between new and old-world civilizations suggested an independent course of history -- that each evolved on its own. this led to another and deeper insight -- beneath these differences may lie a grand and universal similarity, a parallel course of human evolution throughout the world. we now know that all humans once lived nomadic lives. we gathered wild plants and followed the migrations of animals. our lives were lived in small bands. everything was shared. no one had more power or wealth then anyone else. 10,000 years ago, people began to farm and live in permanent sett

didn't and a congratulations for being a home ground girl by being able to manage a store in our great city. congratulations to the whole team. i'm going to ask the supervisors we have london and eric mary and scott wiener my district looking for the target store. there it is. i wanted them beside me so we can be distinguished from the dog. i'm happy to be here. not only has target been such a great partner and i know we were together about a year ago to date where we opened the downtown store to the great delight of a lot of people. we had a great formula target had already worked with the mission call and the west side group and the work and development and produced a clear number of jobs and hired san francisco residents and today they've done it yet again. it's been demonstrated, you know, tiffany went through the legacies with the fluoroscopic goals the library and the constant attention to our youth which target target is finding comfortable to be doing and they're there fouror summer jobs. this store will have over 4 hundred jobs maybe up to 4 hundred and 50 and 80 percent of their h

city bank. >> all right. great. thank you. >> anything else? >> thank you very much. >> thank you and thank you for your work and congratulations for getting the pilot off the ground. we'll move to public comment. i have 4 public comment cards. >> good afternoon. my name is pat valentino i live in district 6 i've used bike share since the beginning i've taken over ninety trips including my trip here today. it's very clear that there's high demand for an increase in the number of stations as far as statistics go for my use i took a look at them before i came here all of my trips have been within 3 minute and see 16 minutes including one that was 28 and a half minutes. one of the things i think that's great about bike share in addition to some of the comments made today increases the visibility of bike usage in the city. and people are very curious about what it's about and what the department of transportation showed bike share programs make other people want to get on bikes so i think programs like this can help a lot. i also think getting more

component in decreasing crime rates including 40 percent looiksz reduction in homicides in our great city. second in san francisco we welcome development as part of a partnership between the city and argue contractors and aeblths payroll the plans i showed this morning show providing development with vitality public infrastructure. we've asked for help from our development community in paying for development housing, new parks and save streets and you've responded well. whether it's paul or alison donating the park or the trans formation of the ymca or any vermz who have agreed to help the districts. we'll keep asking for the papering partnership and i'm confident you'll come through. i know the city hadn't made it easy to build things but i've made it easier to streamline permits. and, yes, we're working with the fire department as well. we've at 25 planners example dictionary b i court staff and made a meaningless full start of sequa reform. well, now that our new vision of san francisco is becoming a realtor we should look at the developments to come. we've got plans that will reshape

down to the deepest of depression but to signal that we have great partners in our business community that demonstrate their love for our cityhe appropriate way to introduce a good friend the ceo of sales force, of course, that's mr. benny house file >> (clapping) >> well, we're so lucky to have such a great mayor in san francisco. aren't we? (clapping) >> and what the mayor said is absolutely true we live in a newer have an. it's a remitting small city 7 by 7 miles but full of rich resources that are represented by the people here. you don't have to go outside this building to see the beautiful especially scenery. we're so blessed. now i'm part of the industry that's going through an amazing time it's a time like unlike any in the city the innovation and new ideas and technology that's blooming is amazing. you see it in one city in the world right here in san francisco where we now have thousands of new companies that have emerged and most of them funded by ron conway right here so thank ou ron (laughter) >> now we'll use our time in an inappropriate time if we didn't think about how to get back we're creating wealth and re

robert zwelinzima, man about town, will walk in front of the great city of the future. the city of the future. lovely. ok bazaar. that is where we also. ok bazaar, main street, johannesburg building society for whites only. stren street, barclays bank all over the bloody world. mutual insurance company, john foster square. be careful, they run the country there. now right, robert, just get ready. beautiful, robert. robert, just a little bit in front of the great city, just right in front of barclays bank. lovely, robert. now when i say come, just walk straight to me, robert. now, ready. come, robert. come, robert. one more time. come, robert. hold it, robert. smile. smile. smile, robert. nowetu. dear nowetu. i've got wonderful news for you in this letter. my troubles are over, i think. you cannot believe it but i must tell you. sizwe bansi, in a manner of speaking, is dead. i'll tell you what i can. as you know, when i left the railway compounds, i went to stay with a friend of mine called zola, a very good friend that, nowetu. in fact, he was trying to get me some job.

, great honor to introduce the mayor of our city, mire ed lee (clapping) >> thankch and good morning, everyone i'll speak quickly before the next interlude. thank you richard for your expert leadership for the board. open occasion my. i've had a number of dinner meetings and they'll i couldn't me what's our passion and the things you have to get done. in any. what's on my mind was a lot of different problems. in the backdrop wove having had cutbacks from the state and that was already surging with governor brown's leadership but again the statistics with ron andcytes invited us to her house and we talked about that with friends. so rendering and i reviewed with the folks the statistics and we've gotten one big one was the improvements of our schools being the number one improvements last year in all of the public schools in california the rainy day fund in our school district was beginning to pay off. what's going on behind that and we discovered the big drop off in the middle schools that's where the truancy starts and the resources were very much lacking even tho

all of those institutions by the way, are not just for our cultural heritage but also the great business of the city. i want to reminded everybody that the mexican museum will join the arts organizations to reflect a culturely inspired organization that generates 19 thousand jobs already in our city because of our cultural institutions and we'll celebrate this today, this great museum that adds an impressive part of the rest of the museums. i want to again integrate the mexican museum it's the board of trustees and all the staff for being an affiliate of the institution the largest museum network and our museum here will feature a permanent collection of over 14 thousand orbits reflecting colonial and popular and contemporary mexican and mexican-american and latino and chicano art. whether live in the world can you find a beautiful gem of a museum. today wouldn't have long been possible without the assistance of what heretofore what is called the proctor agency it's called that because we did the right thing. we gave them a new name the office of community investment and sfroo infrastructure headed

i would be proud of any great city like san francisco to display this to talk about why we're able to get this together and talk about the history of effort that's gone on. thirty years of investment on market street 83 and now we're at that time, people want to invest in the cultural life. without that culture of san francisco and the arts i don't think the technology workers would want to be here by a theirs attracted atkins and the talent is attracted to places like this because of the arts. besides our taking care of people and the shared economy we have a rich rich art. this will be a wonderful display >> again jeff and keri and a nancy and all the board of trustees the america's board. congratulations i'll be with you and hosting quite a few meeting down here. thank you very much (clapping) >> and butterflies are free. i'm considering it. for our opening. if you'll star in it, it's a great idea. now i'm going to welcome senator mark leno who's been a great advocate and has an honorary degree in acting. inasfar mark leno (clapping) >> i still have no clue as to why i was given th

as i said, we have a great city. 2.7 million residents. we're building more condos than any other city in the nation. we have the third largest transit system, we have one of the safest cities and the behavior of the mayor does not reflect the city and that's why we took the steps we did. >> do i understand that you hope to run for mayor of toronto? >> yes. i actually expressed my intention to run for mayor five or six weeks ago because i didn't think the mayor was doing a very good job then, and his behavior as of late led me to the conclusion he is not fit for office and i am looking forward to the upcoming election in 2014. >> karen stintz, thanks for your time. all the best. >> thank you. >>> coming up, anderson cooper is in the philippines covering typhoon haiyan. his emotional response to criticism by some locals next. rn ordered shoes from us online but they didn't fit. customer's not happy, i'm not happy. sales go down, i'm not happy. merch comes back, i'm not happy. use ups. they make returns easy. unhappy customer becomes happy cu

>> i think we came by this problem honestly, the we are telling with it are first it's a great city.nd second our regional economy is generating a ton of jocks. jocks -- jobs so it's a nice problem to have. the third reason it's our own fault. we have not allowed s so very mh housing t to be built in decade. a lot of demand to live here and a constrained supply because of our own choices. the inevitable results is sky rocketing prices it's a really bad situation. the down sides of this far out weigh the up sides, although there are both. there will not be an easy solution. but there are things we can do that i hope we can talk about soon. >> one. down sides, jennifer , is about 6400 homeless people living in the area. how are they being impacted by the increasing genderfication. >> they are being joined by a lot of their neighbors. we have a lot of lands lords taking advantage of the situation and evicting people ill illegally and sometimes legally and we have more and more people that are becoming homeless for the first time. you are talking about people that are one day in their ho

help with the arts community improve along mid-market, they're all saying they want to be great partners in the city that accompanies, as companies that employ our residents, they just want to be great partners. and i think that that's a worthy, worthy spirit and goal. it is what i consider to be one of the finest spirits of san francisco being part of this incredible community partnership. >> so, i thank you guys. i know we all have a number of appointments to go to including signing our budget that we just passed out. so, thank you all for being here. i think we'll be here a few more minutes to answer questions if you want. thank you all for coming and look forward to making this project a reality. thank you, everyone. (applause) > >>. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hi, i'm with sfgovtv i'm here to discuss prop a that will be before the voters in tuesday >> the health care truth fund was for health care correspondents that would substantially there. the 5 member board passed the fund they mate not use the fund to pay for the costs until january 20, 0200. preparing will allow the bodies to make payments from the fund o