school based recreational team to form a new team that represents san francisco vikings and this great city. you wear -- you proudly wear your club crest and the name san francisco on your jersey. as you know, the club system allows soccer players from all parts of the city to come together and work as a team. this is similar to how these supervisors represent different neighborhoods, but work together as a team to make the great city this place is. if my family and i were granted a wish, it would be to continue to build and convert unused space to active places where adults and families and elders can come together and play. we wish for school yards and gyms to be open and accessible for everyone to use. build it and they will come and play and enjoy it. girls, crocker amazon in south sunset are examples of this. and this is where we get to play. we look forward to the completion of the beach chalet into an all-weather soccer complex. the viking courage girls would like to end with our cheer. we have learned that great work is a team effort and is done together. we have added for our cheer

and let's say it runs the gambling bit of how we manage a great city like san francisco. you've got people joining in the arts community and people joining in our bay adversities committee representing a community that i think we have to pay attention to and we'll up the ante on ourselves to do more. you've got people in building inspection you've got folks that are going to top responsibility in fiscal entities, you've got advisory council committees and preference and people that are going to help us entertain more of our adversity and resident whether in the arts or treatment we've got folks for the oversight for the puck promise when they provide for money important the bonds we see that the projects get down, health care and housing, local business which is a big farther of ours because we want to promote more of the success of a local business we've got people coming into help us and small business owner, of course, is treasure island. this is running the gambling bit of responsibilities our city has taken on i want to personally thank alleyway all 44 of you joining

mount davidson is also a great place to escape the noise and the bustle of the city. take the 36 bus and it will drop you at the entrance. it is quite a hike to the top but the view is worth every step. this is the place to bring that someone special. golden gate park's largest body of water is an enchanting place. is a popular spot for paddling around in boats, which can be rented. created in 1893, it was designed for these your boating -- for leisure boating. it is named for the wild strawberries that once flourished. there is also a waterfall, two bridges, and trails the climb to the summit, the highest point at more than four hundred feet. you can catch glimpses of the western side of the city that make this hilltop a romantic look out. for public transit, i take the n train. the lad the ad -- lake is ada accessible. watch many ducks, swans, and siegel's. -- seagulls. it is a great place to stroll and sail away. many couples come here to take a ride around a lake, going under the bridges, passing the chinese pavilion and the waterfall. for a quiet getaway, making

city and county of san francisco. i hope you and everyone feels we've done a great job. before i go too far i want to recognize my partner mark for being here (clapping) you all know how partner of an elected official needs to be so i want to put that out there. mayor ed lee thank you for being here and our kind kind words to continue to grow the words 0 both from the clerkors office. i believe it's important work we're doing for the city and county and we're creating a model for many places around the country and with our support we're able to do that. thank you. again. i want to thank ail the elected officials i see a number of the board of supervisors thank you all of you for believing in us and supporting us i'm not going to name names. george thank you. carmen chiu the newly sworn in assessor and recorders. thank you. again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work but, yo

city. [speaker not understood]. i'm excited to continue to working with you and to continue to work for district 4 and to continue improving our great it. city. so, thank you very much. thank you. ~ (applause) >> thank you, supervisor tang. just in closing i think speaking on behalf of all of our colleagues, many of us have known you for years. we've known of the tremendous work that you did before you joined the board of supervisors. we've known of your tremendous work in your first year. we know the best is yet to come so congratulations. with that i'd like to ask that we take a temporary ten-minute recess. supervisor tang would like to escort her family out of the chamber and take a moment to thank folks and not miss her first set of votes here. if we could take a quick ten-minute recess. without objection that will be the case. [gavel] [recess]

and it identified a vision, of san francisco, as a great city with excellent transportation choices, which has meant to really importance that the transportation plays because we are so dense and compact, and how it plays in making san francisco and keeping san francisco a great city. and that word of choice is important. and this goes back to talking about the transit first policy and that it is not transit only. it is we see our role as creating choices for people having good options for people so that they can make choices and how they get around, and facilitating what the needs of san francisco are today, as well as what they will be in future. four goals, that the board identified in the strategic plan that we need to achieve in order to realize that vision, the first being to make sure that the transportation vision is safe and pretty much everything that we do is being driven by that goal. and the second really is the essentially the transit first policy. and making those modes of preferred means of travel, and which also to the extent that we get people on to a bike and on to

san francisco is a great city because of it's multiculturalism in this city. this possess a threat to that diversity, economic strength and even our competitive edge. that's why we have marshalled our resources and invest in our neighborhoods and advance in education and public safety. we are reporting to african neighborhoods and businesses in this strategy in mind. with this strategy in mind. we need to focus on providing people with opportunities, job opportunities. i was proud to work with many of you with a program that employees thousands of youth. our interrupt, predict and organized strategy that is not just decreasing the number of shootings and homicide in our city but helping us organize in this community and providing us with job learning opportunity and get better outcomes for our people and our families . we also recently opened the contract in bayview which will allow small business owners to access millions of dollars in the near future. also we are partnering with non-profits that provide loans throughout the city including fillmore neighborho

like everything that we are inspired to do in this great city it's a very special project. it's located at the nexus of the industrial city's past and all the future. it creates a unique opportunity for us to explore the character and contemporary spaces and operating systems designed to increase worker productivity. it incorporates many of today's many ideas of sustainable development and operation. as you will hear from our partner david johnson and his firm. it has our leadership goal to high quality enterprises in san francisco and nurtures a business environment that supports strong economic growth as you will hear from mayor lee. it also established new benchmark for what is possible today for commercial development and you will happy hear from our company leader. john kilroy. i think you will understand that we are a huge believer of san francisco. we have demonstrated that faith in local management, resources and development. it has taken a big teamworking together very closely to bring us to today's ground breaking. that is a lot of people and we are glad to see to

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

city. so, all of that in the context of a great anniversary, 150 years, there is going to be throughout this year, more stories to be told about what this 150 years means to our city, because, there is a lot of generations of people who came to this city, many, many years, built communities, built their small business and their livelihood and hopes and helped us to establish the fisherman's wharf and help us to establish all of the maritime that they have created life times of reasons of why people want to continue visiting our city and we need to acknowledge all of that history. and all of it has not been easy, there have been difficult things and we have had fights over what is proper, and what is not proper, but we have always had in our sites in all of these different struggles, the success of our city, the golden gate bridge and the hope that it brings to many generations of immigrants that is what our city is built on and the honor that we have with all of our labor partners who also jimmy herman and the cruise ship terminal that they are honoring and built it through years of generati

city safe and attractive? >> start with that and repeat it. did you get all of that, okay, great? >> that's a great question. mayor menino has made it clear that we'll work with other city departments. the strength of our success in boston, his designation was the urban mechanic for a great city. it's been based upon the fact that there is connectivity between all of the various branches of government. so i know that arresting people is not going lower the crime rate. we've arrested fewer and fewer people every year for the last seven years. but i do know that working with the inspectional services department, with the alcohol beverage control department, the regulatory agencies in city government have a direct effect on crime and reduce crime hot spots immediately. so we've used that sort of holistic approach for a long time in boston. me for the last seven years. it is what has led to our success. it's only through cooperation and coordination in the full direction of the mayor. the mayor plays an enormous role in making sure the people work together. when that happens, it can be extremely powerful. >> in m

that's why it's such a great city and why we're so proud to be here. we really think that here, especially, you know, parents -- it's imperative they have that opportunity to be able to see their children thrive and be successful in life. the basic fund does this by providing opportunities by partnering with over 300 schools throughout the bay area who work tirelessly by providing the person /alized attention that these children need. as a result of our program, by graduating out of our program, 95 percent of our children graduate through high school, which is a huge step up. i'm joined here today by our founder, jim mccarthy and june mccarthy, who didn't want to get up. and also students from saint peters, which is the school you visited in the mission. we had 159 students there, and we are honored to open this door for over 18,000 students since 1998 with scholarships. we have supported 4100 students this year. we are so honored to be here today on behalf of our founder, and our cofounder, our very generous board and donors, our wonderful network of

residents and businesses as well as visitors wifi access as well as new online services to the great city of san francisco. thank you. [ applause ] >> well, before we ask the mayor to officially activate symbolically with his big switch. be careful, mayor. i want to acknowledge the op

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it's a great city, but it's a bifurcated city. there's a rich wonderful philadelphia, and a poor philadelphia. >> thanks for having me on and congratulations on the new show. philadelphia is a dynamic diversity, and we have a wide range of democratic elements to the city of philadelphia. what we are focussed on with the promise zone is, as the commentator mentioned. the partnership with the university. and certainly our own anti-poverty organization, community empowerment. that's headed by eva glad stephen. so we believe that there are great assets in that part of west philadelphia, and the lang as field-carter. there are high rates of the poverty, high rates of unemployment in those areas, but still good housing stock in many areas while there's vacancy in some. the elements are all there. the team worked hard, put together a fantastic application. my reporter and a group of folks working on this. we are fortunate and proud to have been selected. ultimately for us, part of the selection process was we had a plan to deal with pove

are coming here because the people who build this foundation of this city, you know, made this a great city and are being kicked out and we keep seeing that all of the time. and, you know, i think that we should really ensure that you know, the people who really make the city great like the teachers, and you know the community organizers and the grossers and everybody can still afford to live here because we were born and raised here and this is our home and we should not have to be forced out because other people want to be here and so my request is that the board of education do the land transfer and have, you know, the public in the community's hands, and you know, it is our land too, and i think that we should all get a say in what happens to it and we are pushing for affordable housing and i see the board of education as really wanting our kids and our children and my brother who goes to lowell and a smart kid he does not want to leave here to thrive and that the kids can be able to leave here and thrive and make the city what it is, thank you. >> hello, everyone, my name is mario and

the bankruptcy of cities locally -- it is a spreading problem for every big city. a great productive city like l.a. nonetheless follows the track of other cities that have been bankrupt. let's take detroit. that is a supreme example. detroit's boundaries were drawn in the 19th century. downtown detroit was really drawn with boundaries from 150 years ago. since 1960, detroit has gone from 2 million to 700 thousand people. two thirds of the population gone. a lot of the schools gone. a lot of abandoned things. detroit looks like a disaster area. what people don't know is, downtown detroit, the greater detroit metropolitan region includes 10 counties around detroit. those 10 counties during the same time when detroit went from 2,700,000 has gone from 3 million to 5 million population. leftof the industry that downtown detroit resettled in the counties around detroit. if you look at the five top economic new economy sectors in 10 counties around detroit are among the top five. greater troit is flourishing. the detroit from the 19th century, bound by these ancient, antiquarian

philadelphia is a great city, but it is a bifurcated city.ich wonderful philadelphia, and a poor philadelphia. >> one, thanks for having me on, and congratulations on the new show. philadelphia is a dynamic diverse city, and we have a wide range of demographic elements to the city of philadelphia, and what we're focused on with our promise zone is as the commentator mentioned the partnership with drexel university, mount vernon manner, lisk and our own poverty organization. so we leave there are great assets in that area. yes, there are high rates of poverty in many of those census tracks, high rates of unemployment in those areas, but still good housing stock in many areas, while there is also vacancy in some, but the elements are all there. the team worked very, very hard, put together a fantastic application. a whole group of folks working on this, and we're very fortunate and proud to have been selected, and i think ultimately for us, part of that selection process was that we have a plan to deal with poverty in philadelphia, released las

it's not indicative of my position of mayor in this great city of toronto. >> hey, man, i got what youd. [ laughter ] >> reporter: ford refused to step down even if it meant toronto city councils taking away all but the most symbolic of his powers. >> counselor, the reason i drank or did drugging was not because of stress it was out of sheer stupidity. >> reporter: now he plans to wonder for mayor again this year. global audiences may wonder why toronto would reelect this mayor. but torontoians are clear about their feelings. >> everybody doing it, but they don't catch them. >> with rob ford he has come in touch with the people. >> reporter: that is what give rob ford another chance at running one of north america's fastest-growing cities. ♪ >>> i'm dave warren. timing of this storm will be overnight tonight. that's when a lot of the mid-atlantic states, seeing all of this snow, filling in and getting heavy. right now there's a big hole here. from washington, d.c. up through baltimore, new york, philadelphia, boston, and this storm and this storm coming together off of the coast, and o

i think all of us can share our best practices across the great cities.hink our best days are still ahead of us here in america, but it will come from the grassroots outward, not from washington. tavis: how do you do that when the federal government has made it abundantly clear states ought not to look to the federal government for funding? here in california evernham a good speech at the end of the year -- evernham brown just gave a big speech at the end of the year about trying to overturn the california economy, but cities are not getting what they used to get from states in the federal government. how do you do this? >> you have to be creative. you have to be an entrepreneur. you have to go out there and hustle. i have had ceos say, we love to hire 5, 10, 20 youth. you have to put it together yourself, and you also have to look at your own municipality. we have been testing them your cell -- ourselves. we have been voting with two thirds majorities because people are tired of seeing a nation that won't reach the ladders of opportunity to our neediest