it is not just an entrance hall. it is a town square of a city within a building and leads to sky lit indoor boulevards. when you come from fifth avenue on the right, today you have the circular information desk. you get your questions are answered. you get your map. you have coat check over there, museum store over here. up the stairs is the second floor. on the balcony sometimes they put tables around a balcony which is perfect because they're like tables in an outdoor cafe overlooking the central piazza of the metropolitan museum, the entrance hall. that entrance hall leads to magnificent sky lit boulevards, the one in the downtown direction was restored in the last 15 years with the dwreek and roman selection and looking south from the main hall back of us and looking towards a smaller piazza sky lit where we use to eat and dine and the cafeteria was there and restored 2 and put it back to its original use as a gallery for greek and roman art. it is a grand indoor boulevard taking us from the central piazza. if y

every day, staff would update and public meetings that are being held in city hall. from that way, everything beyond the initial link would be pre- programmed to open to specific language. the meetings for that day would be translated utilizing the software. the issue with doing this is the accuracy of the translations. you will get literal translations and not specific colloquial speech, i guess. land use might turn into a ground functions. these are things that have to be thought about. however, one will be able to get the gist, and will be able to find the locations and get the majority of the information to get where one wants to build. this is a way to get around the need for staff to constantly translate on a daily basis. this is what we would like to proceed with, and we think it will get us very close to where we want to be. and as google also-translate gets more accurate, we think this will progress further over time. supervisor chiu: i have a number of questions about the topic. are you familiar with how the ethnic press covered this ordinance in 2009 when

i want to welcome all of you to this town hall. i want to thank all of you for your community leadership and let you know that you're taking part in a very, incredibly important part of our city governance. i thing many of you know that the budget is the most important set of decisions that we make every single year. the budget reflects our priorities as a city and reflects our values. and many of you probably also know that in recent years, every year since i have been in office, we have had a budget deficit. so we have to make some very, very difficult choices. i want to thank not only not of you who have -- not only all of you who have come here today, but those from city government, in particular are city officials. this is the second annual budget town hall, something we started in mayor lee's first year. in the first meeting i had with mayor lee after he was sworn in as our interim mayor last year, i asked him and other supervisors asked him for ways to make our budget process more collaborative and more transparent. and the

we all have our disagreements in city hall. there are times when the mayor and i agree on things and disagree. i know that is true with all of my colleagues. he always brings an incredibly positive and collaborative approach. even if you disagree, you can sit down and talk about it and try to work it out. his attitude toward the budget is not unique to the budget. the mayor brings that attitude toward every single thing that he does at city hall. it makes all of our lives a lot easier in terms of trying to get things done for the community. mayor lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you, scott. thank you, david. from the tallest to the smallest. i am so happy to be here in the mission. i've got my copy. i'm ready to go tonight. i want to acknowledge my sincere thanks to supervisor wiener and supervisor campos. they are really the greatest examples of why we all vote in district elections. they're doing a good job. they are going through some disagreements. you have a city hall who is listening. we are dialoguing seriously about the

tomorrow morning and march to city hall. here is a huge mayday rally in san jose in march of 2006 that took place without any arrests at all. police say caltrans and the highway patrol are ready to help with traffic control. we continue our coverage on our website. we will bring you problems as soon as we learn about them. we will post them on www.ktvu.com. >>> today mark as new phase of the doyle drive project. drivers are a temporary roadway. ktvu's david stevenson is live in san francisco with the two wrinkles that popped up today. >> reporter: just beyond this rubble lies the new doyle drive. news chopper 2 has the view. traffic moved well today although they were expecting congestion north of the new marina intersection. you can see the view right now. this project is getting rave reviews from those on the roads and those exploring it by foot. >> it brought more light and, you know, just lot more green and it is great. >>> the new doyle drive made its debut this morning with a caravan of engineers led by the california

tonight, a conversation with rock-and-roll hall of famer gregg allman, who founded the allman brothers with his brother bank in the 1960's. his line has been a high-profile some of ups and downs, including the death of his brother. the candid memoir about his life is called "my cross to bear," and our conversation with greg allman is coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: gregg allman is a grammy- winning rock-and-roll hall of fame member with the allman brothers, starting to play mostly r&b, and he had iconic songs, like, "ramblin' man" and "melissa." great to have you on the program. >> thank you very much, tavis. a pleasure to be here. my cross to bear. why is that? >> well, i wrote a song called "my cross to bear," and it just seemed -- it is hard to name and hounddog. you know, i tried and tried. "beyond

we had specific concerns with signeage around city hall. oewd says they did not provide services to the public, but we know they are providing services, so it may just be a matter of their own reporting. finally, the compliance plan is mostly in progress, and they are also working with our office to meet the lao requirements and make improvements. so, supervisors, our recommendations are really centered around three major areas -- amendments to the lao. i would call these tweaks and clarifications. and compliance guidelines and centralized balance. the types of amendments we are talking about removing at the time line so that the period in which my office has to analyze data, chase down apartments, make sure everything is accurate and timely and helpful is not so compacted. we have really less than two months to collect data on all 26 departments, but relevant information in the report. there are some ambiguities in the law that we can easily clara. guidances'. the department of justice is doing this for federal agencies, and i think that i

we get energized at city hall. yes, you're going to tell us about problems.u're going to challenge us. but when we go to work and we get things done and we feel that much better. that's why when we team one the board of supervisors, we get local hires done and done better. san franciscans need that job. when we say to you that we're going to create jobs for our youth, 5,000 of them this summer, we ain't messing around. we go to cooperations -- corporations like wells fargo and bank of america. get your hands up. jamba juice. how many are you going to hire? we go to every corporation. and i want to thank eric mcdonald from united way. thank you, eric, for helping us lead 5,000 jobs this summer. [applause] he's working really well with our school district, with our families and children of youth and families departments, with all the city departments to make this commitment true, 5,000 summer jobs. and we've got a website for those of you who are asking i don't know how to get those jobs. well, we're aiming those jobs this summer at disconnected youth. and for

reporters that walk around city hall, took pictures of the lack of accessibility of this building, and it is now 2012, and there has been no headway on this issue. i know you have thought about it. i definitely appreciate the creativity of thinking about how you use technology on this issue, but can you tell me why there has been no progress in getting close to four years? >> online, from a technical standpoint, i was looking for a true solution to be able to do updates on the flight. i guess it is equally possible to be able to implement all the static documents, and if that is sufficient, i believe we can move on that very quickly, but the delay in large part was looking for how we deal with the request to be able to update on a daily basis. >> how is our bilingual staff when it comes to security and sheriff's apartment at the door? i think that is one aspect of how we address this. >> we actually are not -- we do not specifically supervise our deputies. however, the sheriff's department has been good about providing multilingual deputies and cadets, and i think you will find that ov

as she said, we have a very different picture in city hall today.mericans on the board as well as the honorary members. we have so many asians at the board of supervisors that eric mar and i get confused on a regular basis, jane kim and carmen chu get confused on a regular basis. that is a good thing. if you have a chance to look around at the 700 of us fulfilling this auditorium, we came here through very different paths. your asian-american supervisors, and none of us actually grew up in this city, how we all came to the city because after 160 years, a san francisco is the asian american capital of the united states. 2012 has been an amazing year. when i was a little kid, i liked to play basketball. my mom said, david, stop playing basketball because no asian- american will ever get into the nba. mom was wrong. i know many of us thought that asian-americans with advance foreign politics, but i don't think that any of us thought that this year, we would see the first elected asian-american sworn in at city hall. and because of that, i want to take

s>s>s>sú >>> taking you back live now to city hall.some union workers are here protesting contract negotiation that's have been underway sometime now. >> yes. may 15th deadline for the stoi reach a contract with the service employees international union. they marched up to the mayor's office. and they're trying to make their point. >> the army has a new way to better prepare its foot soldiers for combat. >> here is abc 7 news david louie he spotted it. >> this is a thousand video games and silicon valley know how are sharpening skills of the army. >> trying to save lives. >> the company is creating a new system emersing soldiers into a variety of scenarios. sensors detect if they're standing kneeling or prone. and a joy stick controls movement. >> there is ink corporating technology is an as yet for training that generation. >> this weighs four pounds as military issued mel mets. there is a backpack with four batteries that can keep an exercise going two hours or longer, off the shelf processors give exercise realistic movements and re

a long time, because otherwise you can't create these sprawling grounds of buildings and residence halls. i -- i -- this is kind of something that's remarkable that i'm sorry i didn't have a chance to talk about in my short presentation. the students were really being meantored by the community activists in newark at the time, and these are the same activists that were boycotting umdnj at the time umdnj had a proposal for 125 acres, and we were talking about the bull doegz of people's homes through urban renewal. these are the same activists that are going out and boycotting highway construction, and what we know about highway construction in urban space is that it would typically be created through the downtown, kind of the heart of the city, and these students were being meantored by a lot of the black panthers, community organizers, community activists, and really these people in the community gave these students the tools that they needed to press upon the demands upon what was called the white empire. somebody mentioned vietnam earlier. when i interviewed a lot of these activists, t

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[applause] >> thank you, francis and thank you, welcome to city hall, the people's city hall, san franciscoheers and applause] >> first off, i want you all to know that that was a wonderful rendition of our national anthem. please give another applause to melanie and her daughter. wonderful rendition, thank you! now those beautiful performers, what a wonderful tribute to our asian american heritage month. i am so excited about all of you and seeing so many of you from all over our state come to city hall and san francisco. welcome. i am excited to welcome in my very, very good friends, former secretary of transportation, thank you for being here! congressman mike honda, thank you for being here, very much. our controller, thank you, john, where are you? all right, thank you! our board of supervisors, the very historic appointment of the president of our board of supervisors, david chiu, thank you very much! david, eric mar, thank you for being here! david campos, thank you for being here. he is our adopted asian brother. thank you, jose sis narrows, another adopted brother here, thank you.

i situate the conklin hall commemoration within the tension between history and memory. memory operates on a number of registers. what do we choose to remember? what do we choose to forget? who is the we that is remembering or forgetting? and through the process of public commemoration, how has the narrative of the takeover been transformed? what was the role of the public in shaping the celebrations? i attempt to balance the claims of history and memory in my ongoing oral history project. it is too reductive to say that the history of the event is contradictory to its memory. unlike historians, i do not believe memory and history are opposed to one another. focusing on the tension between the official memory produced by the university's commemoration and the history of the takeover allow us to see the messiness and nuance of the liberation story. the narrative produced by rutgers excludes actual historical facts including the work of puerto rican students who organized and fought alongside the black organization of students for equality and access to education. while i