chair chu: but the recruiting and training would have eaten up at $2.40 million? >> what would have happened is first off, it would have taken us longer, so we would have had a longer time with the work order, number one, and the background check situation alone works out to be about $10,000 per hire, and the reason is you do three background checks on three individuals at $3,000 each, and the experience at the sheriff's department has been that one out of three passes the background check, so you are spending $3,000 times three to identify one hire for a security person, so that is certainly a portion of it. we have detailed accounting on all of the background training costs as well as the hourly rates as well as the backfill expense, and we can provide all of that detail to you and are happy to do that. chair chu: i think that would be helpful, because the way i see this, since this was a plan that was part of the budget, there are only several ways that we can go about this. one is to continue with the civil service plan, where you say the savings will not be re

next we have at sfmta. i also want to recognize for my colleagues, we have ed riskin from dpw. raymond smith from district pedestrian safety advisory committee. questions if there are. we also have here ed, the director of department of public works, courtney from redevelopment, elizabeth from what san francisco, and raymond smith, to insert questions as well. -- to answer questions as well. >> i want to thank you for having this hearing. it is really important to listen to what we just heard and get the feedback. i want to recognize, i have two staffers with me here. we have heard a lot of testimony and information from the speakers. some of this might be repetitive. i will focus on the areas we were asked to present today. the key area i would like to talk about is the current pedestrian program we have in our perfume in the city and drill down to specifics of what is going on in district 6 and what opportunities there are coming down the pipe. before we begin, i'd like to mention that, as the mta is in to greet two different modes, we see walking as fundamental to our vision

have three reasons. one is because where i live, my reception is -- it's no good. i'm an at&t customer and sometimes when i'm in my couch and my phone rings, i have to go outside to the street to get bars. so that's one. two is because i, too, have at&t phone at work and i work at the first reporter and sometimes our calls drop. so that's two. and three is, as the folks here from at&t stated, that if this goes through, there will be jobs and this is what san franciscans desperately need -- economy, work and a better way of living. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, i've been a resident of district 3 for nine years and i am completely frustrated by the lack of options in the city with respect to cable television. as it currently stands, comcast has a monopoly on the city and treats customers accordingly. at a time when people are facing serious economic struggles, why wouldn't the board of supervisors support a project that would provide san francisco residents with a choice of cable providers and bring much-needed revenue to the city. residents of san

we have gone through these. looking at pedestrian incident locations in the last five years, the tenderloin area, south of market area, is the hot spot, in particular, six straight. it is showing up as a problematic location. when we look of the analysis of what is happening, there was a really good point that there's no point in blaming the driver or the pedestrian. both are at fault, neither our -- neither are at fault. it is about our streets and how we have designed them. injuries have been coming down. this trend is very positive, but it is still there. it needs to come down further and more. with pedestrian collisions, we really are not able to say there's a trend. it is very erratic year by year. we only know what his report. in terms of pedestrian safety, when you are looking at exposure, we have some exposure maps we're looking at. what is the likelihood based on the data of interacting with a vehicle? what is the likelihood of having an injury? the tender linaria, the market financial district, the north end of t

this is not how we have to work at this time. given the advances in technology that should be driving down costs. >> thank you. given the comments you have made, -- supervisor chu: thank you. given the comments you have made, it would be worthwhile to look at these improvements again. john and i have had conversations about where the other opportunities might be on master contract savings. in addition to other potential savings for telecom. i think to the point of supervisor chiu, we would not be where we are without the staffers on reserve. supervisor murphy? -- supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: can we back up a little bit? i think i am the senior member on this committee, on this issue. my, how time flies. part of that motivation in those earlier conversations that been involved in to some of the good work steps president chu and others have taken up in pursuing consolidation projects, that this was supposed to arrive at a idea of greater efficiency within city government. hopefully those efficiencies of data managemen

we have also looked at using the data that we have to start doing some modeling of estimated pedestrian trips throughout the city. you really see the area of district 6 and the financial district has the lion's share of estimated pedestrian crossing. some of the areas around market street have about 200,000-plus crossings per day. that is not a small amount. it is comparable to some european cities. you have the level of intensity of pedestrian crossing. also important to note is the yellow corridor that runs to the south and west, michigan corridor, that is a heavy transit line. transit and pedestrian crossings are actually very close as well. we are a walking city. we have voted many times. we are the most walkable city. that comes with some other increases in various exposure to pedestrian, bicycle, and motors crossings as well. we have been looking at what we can do within our current toolkit of resources and allowable measures. best practices were mentioned that we are not able to utilize. of the things we can utilize, like red zones, where we advance the packing further back so th

this is not how we have to work at this time. given the advances in technology that should be driving down costs. >> thank you. given the comments you have made, -- supervisor chu: thank you. given the comments you have made, it would be worthwhile to look at these improvements again. john and i have had conversations about where the other opportunities might be on master contract savings. in addition to other potential savings for telecom. i think to the point of supervisor chiu, we would not be where we are without the staffers on reserve. supervisor murphy? -- supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor

a house staff has mentioned, we have not received at least -- as stuff has mentioned, we have received at least to reduce. one i do not believe was minor. it ran to a number of pages. these are all characterized as technical or typographical. but we have been getting these at least two or three times. i think that alone speaks to perhaps stepping back a bit and taking another look at the eir. more specifically, on some more targeted issues, in terms of historic resources, the eri makes-- eir makes a determination that some of the impact would be less than significant. i think the problem that i have is that there is not enough detail in the proposed plan to really evaluate what the impacts are. i think then they try to pass it off to subsequent reviews. but my question in my mind, the question i have in my mind, is how many times can you use the same argument, where you say we think there is an impact but there is not enough information and later we will figure it out if we get the design, and then have a review process? that is the other issue that i have. i do not believe the review

we have to look at it. a lot of people have to look at it. experts will look at it and i am really happy. honestly, i'm very proud that i was able to bring this to a point. nobody else was. the clintons during their campaign weren't. all of the other people that talked about it for years, they weren't. i am really honored by this. okay. next question. >> if it is not true, for example, does it mean that the country is led by an illegal pez? >> let's hope it is true. i don't want to answer that question. honestly, the question is so negative. at this point, i don't want to answer that question. you are asking a very negative question. if it is no the true, if it is not really his birth certificate. i don't want to answer that. i hope it is true. the reason i hope it is true, because we have very big problems in this country. this country is suffering right now. i mean, i have people that can't get gasoline in their tank. they are topping out their tank, because they can't afford to do it properly. they have never had this before. you look at r

we want to have more in your ranks at this time. i know we have a conversation later on, but that is certainly my thought. chair chu: thank you, supervisor chiu. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: have we started to do some analysis on how many positions about officers that are assigned to positions that could be performed by civilians? >> supervisor kim, i think last year's report identified approximately 250 positions or more currently performed by sworn staff that could be performed by civilians. i would be happy to get a copy of last year's report to members of the committee. >> that would be great. in that report, is there also analysis of the long-term benefits? a measly, we do not want to lay off officers, but as we have retirements, not worry about those positions in hiring civilians that are a little bit more affordable. >> there is financial information about it in the report with the wage of officer and a typical civilian. i think, and i will speak for myself, i think the chief has a more valuable perspective to add on this,

officials say gbagbo's forces have gained ground in the battle at have professional heavy weapons and are advancing on the headquarters of the internationally recognized president, alassane tar. -- alassane at ouattara. >> they have regained forces there. while we speak, they may be very close to the hotel. ofy're using the lull tuesday as a trick to reinforce their position. they said they were agreeing to talks, but instead they were consolidating to positions. >> earlier, there was some easing of conditions for civilians. andrew harding is there. >> slowly, wherley, the city is opening up. the civilians are emerging from their homes for the first time any week. that has been quite an ordeal. they burned innocent people in the streets, she says. now there is a rush to find supplies and money. we have security, he says, but we don't have water or anything to eat. that is our problem now. these soldiers may not have sieged laurent gbagbo, but they are consolidating their hold. the security situation in this neighborhood has changed dramatically in the past 24 hours. it feels like part

however, but the question we have is that the current memorandum be at the police department. there is a lot we have to add to the calendar," as well as, i think commissioners slaughter and mazzucco -- i think we should put on the agenda to discuss the entire report and recommendations that they have made and see whether or not we will review it and hopefully implement many of those. president mazzucco: thank you. anything more for the director? item 5-c./ -- 5.c. president mazzucco: commissioners, anything? commissioner chan: i will talk more about memphis. i brought back some popcorn to share. i will give a more detailed report, basically, what i saw was amazing. in previews, i saw an officer talk someone down from threatening suicide. i was right there, and it was utterly amazing. she used purely her power of persuasion and the high level of respect that she gave the order to prevent that from happening. president mazzucco: ok, we will move on to item 5-d. secretary lt. falvey: item 5-d, commission announcements, the scheduling of items identified for consideration at future

at the school. the current board are some of the greatest examples of leadership in the city we have seen. something that has not changed much at all is the teaching staff. edison teachers are not only phenomenal educators, but they are dedicated to the school community and organized themselves to help the school maintained its purpose. with our new governance structure, parents have an opportunity to participate in the school functioning. from this, children are thriving, and more parents are involved. i implore you to accept edison charter's renewal petition and let edison continue to educate children and feed this community as long as they can. thank you. >> good evening, superintendent, board. my name is christine reed. i am a grandparent of two. my grandson's are eight and five. -- grandsons are eight and five. i have had to take parenting of them. the five year-old just became a student last year. might a-year-old needed speech therapy. i have been blessed with the fact that edison has provided that need for my grandson. he has had the same speech therapist since he has been attending

we give approximately 100,000 tickets a year and you have five sustained complaints. at the outset, i will be sure to put out a reminder to the officers to make sure that they put it in. hopefully next year, we will have less than five. >> from working on this in the past, i know that the data is not always collected. i think it will be great to look at this issue. >> us from the numbers, taking the matter seriously, especially coming from bayview where we are in complete compliance, i will make sure it is across the department. commissioner chan: i wanted to thank them for dedicating the time and resources, helping them execute and develop the crisis intervention teamwork. you have been instrumental in making that happen. i want to make sure that we recognize that. >> what we are learning and i am sure you are learning as well is that there is regional and national interest and what an francisco is doing. we're getting calls from other jurisdictions about the implementation of the program here in san francisco. >> there is talk about turning it into a regional peace whe

we're looking at just what they have -- the house track and the sewer. there's no work being done inside. we are not going inside to look at it. we are looking at what is being replaced. there should have been some kind of that water protection. from what i understand, there was. secondary valve was installed after the fact because of, assuming, flooding here it installed without inspection or permit. >> that was going to lead to my second question, maybe to the property owner as well. i think commissioner lee is right. we are responsible for the contractors we hire. with the sec and installation of the back flow valve, do we know -- did you not question the contractor? did you pull a permit? and if you did not, of course, there would have been no inspection. because if he pulled the permit for the second installation, we would have inspected it, i assume, after word, and signed off on it. the plumbing inspector would have gone off and said that it is right or wrong, and we have to do it again. that would have been the time. we would have called the contr

good morning, we don't have any camping out at all. we have good conditions for the roads. let's take a look at the bay bridge. you will see traffic is moving well passed that new roof we keep seeing every morning. boy, it's pretty isn't it? traffic on the upper deck of the bay bridge moves well. no major problems getting into san francisco. this is a look at interstate 880 you can see northbound and southbound 880 traffic moving along nicely. no major problems if you are driving down the nimitz freeway if from hayward, union city, and fremont it's a nice drive. the road sensors are not showing us a lot. westbound 84 the dumbarton bridge that traffic is moving along nicely. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. good morning, everyone. we have clear skies but the breeze is still there. today it looks good. just one guy talking i thought yesterday, yesterday afternoon was very nice. morning a little cool a little breeze. it will be slightly warmer today. tomorrow clouds come in and a little cooler. the weekend looks a sunny and warmer. it will be a sunny morning. no doubt abo

the results that's the most important thing the proof of the pudding is always in the eating have a look at what the results are when it comes to build. budget and build an economy and you see but it's very sound. wanting to express the residents are of moroccan descent but we have a point six million belgians and of course in some cities like in brussels there's a situation where we have more than one hundred nationalities that is of course one of the advantages of being an international city a city where the different communities can find their place and of course. the situation as far as the demographics is concerned is essentially based on being a country that is welcome to welcoming each and everybody who comes through to this crossroads of the european union where you say that those people who are of arabic descent are well integrated into. society world the player and of course the integration efforts because they still have to continue to in order to be successful you heard some comments for example from i'm going to medical them also from people in the united kingdom speaking about

we have to look at this as a broad city issue. until we have the satisfactory answer of where the cars will go, i can support this. >> i will make a motion to approve the. we will see the impact of carefully planned. [unintelligible] and the impact the neighborhood with this rush-hour traffic design. the next item to talk about the climate action plan, as we talked about we can't continue to facilitate the streets to make them work fror everyeone. -- everyone . there is a fellow in new york that says you can do something about traffic. it was fascinating when it was first close of two automobiles. i saw it, but as time went on, they had to turn left. it is not nearly as bad as it was when the first started. traffic is not like the weather. it we can do something about it and engineer the streets to make an impact. i am in strong support of this. >> i am in support of that. as long as we can make adjustments accordingly, i am in favor of the. director oka: it has been through most of the projects that have been somewhat controversia

at 56. they have seen wage reduction voted by the membership. it is something that has been looked at. it is obviously opposed by the membership in local 798. again, when we are looking at solutions, there's a lot of discussion. >supervisor campos: president chiu? president chiu: i would like to respond to our chair's comment. there is a situation where firefighters are receiving packages that are more than their counterparts in other jurisdictions, i do not know which is the more difficult decision. whether to charge a lot more overtime or hire more folks. neither perspective is a good choice. we have to figure out at a time when you're asking every department to share the burden and to fairly shoulder the burden of our budget deficit, how are we going to do it? it is a problem. supervisor campos: i understand the point president chiu is making. from my perspective, we can learn from the private sector. in private sector, if you are a business owner, you try to make sure you have the right level of staffing to reduce your overtime. i think it is complicated given the benefits package

we have the urban environmental plans coming up this spring. we talked about at the retreat having discussions about unit cost and how we think about those. this memo says that by the end of august, we will have another round of presentations or another round of information on this subject. it looks as though in the next six months, we will have a fair amount of discussion in front of us. i had a three specific questions about timing. as far as impact to the water supply, it lists two. one is the interim requirements for alameda creek and secondly for san mateo creek. when are we expecting those actually start? >> [inaudible] [inaudible] vice president moran: when you calculate the 7.4 average, that's assuming we have put into service the recapture facility? >> that is correct. vice president moran: do we have a schedule on that? >> that has not been through the environmental process and we're still working on the project description and design. currently, i believe that is scheduled for implementation by 2015 or 2016. vice president moran: it is almost a cash fl

. -- i have observed this anecdotally. at the end of the year. we will have approximately 45,000-50,000 residents who are contributing enough funding to actually keep the guarding reckoning -- keep the garden running. when you talk about some of the concerns, and i do appreciate the fact that we have had some residents that have been inconvenienced by this. we have had frustrated customers from time to time throughout our operations. we have those that have to deal with the rec center that is closed on sundays. we have to deal with frustrated residents that have to deal with our inability to staff the clubhouse. we can cause we have to deal with those who cannot get a water fountain -- we have to deal with those that cannot get a water fountain. hope we are together in that goal. should that feet continued, we would like to work with you to minimize that frustration. >> i will ask members of the public to be respectful as people are talking. when you come up, we will be respectful to you. >> this is about trade-offs. >> i appreciate the fact that

hand rails have to terminate at the wall or otherwise extend, not just a stubby little end. this is the other end of the ramp. here we have somebody using a cane coming down the stairs. you see the tape is coming off of this stair? i wanted to mention the behavioral uses that i keep talking about involve maintenance as well. somebody, you can't just put it in and leave it, you have to walk around and say is everything working? and replace the tape and that's a reasonable expectation. >> well, tape is a good retrofit solution, but a better design solution at the beginning would actually be to cast in place stone that has a darker color so that you have a permanently installed contrasting striping at the nose. >> here we have stairs in a new building. all new buildings are supposed to have all of their entrances accessible. in this case they say, go around the corner. in many cases in san francisco there are occupancies, commercial businesses on lower floors, basements, second floors, they are simply not accessible. what reasonably can we do? . >> there are probably cases where

then the larger ships that come through need to have at least 40 feet. they actually have to dredge up some of it. there is a very limited channel through the bed. in a sailboat, you cannot turn and get out of the way. next, we're going to walk across the plaza and into the ferry building. we will have over and stop at this store, and we have not all of these phenomenal mushrooms. -- and we have all of these phenomena mushrooms. >> they have an official title and placard. he is one of our tenants. ihe started out as a beat cop in san francisco, helping out at the farmers' market. he had grown up at a farm. he started getting interested in mushrooms, and it has grown into this incredible business. >> are any of these local? >> their family farm is at moth landing. they also going to the forest, and they did not tell anybody where they're going because there are very particular. you will see a forger walking through a building with a mushroom that the found after a big rainstorm and probably bring it in here. them excellent. i have never seen some of these

at possible projects? how do we do that? >> we were having this conversation yesterday, that we are looking at these bills. your 100% right. the state will not turn around and say, sorry we took away redevelopment. you are right. the question we're asking is, under what circumstances is the state -- i don't know if it is 100% or a portion.

the antitrust perspective of mergers and when you look at the wireless market, you have to look at it market by market. the geographic market and the product markets. i hope we can give it a full hearing. >> joining us is lynn stanton with telecommunication reports. she is a senior editor there. >> what do you look for? is it a balancing act -- what it does that is positive and what it does that is negative? >> we really have to look at if there is any harm coming about as a result of the merger. what are the specific harm to consumers? if there are harms, merger conditions should be narrowly tailored to address those. the merger process should not be an excuse to implement rule- makings, issues that do not arise because of that particular merger. commissioner baker paid a tremendous speech in february. -- gave a tremendous speech in february. >> typically, those in the fcc will have one time remedies. the sec will impose on going business practice prohibitions or mandates. what is your view of that? is that the only path the fcc has in terms of trying to get at the issu

just one controller on the midnight shift will have at least two. >> it sounds like a good idea to always have a backup there in case somebody does get tired and needs to step out and wake up for a little bit. >> reporter: meanwhile, the faa is trying to determine if it was a breakdown in communication between the tower and the cockpit of an air france jumbo jet that caused it to collide with a delta flight on the runway at jfk airport in new york on monday. >> i know there's a lot of technology there to do the work but at the same time, technology can fail and you need people there. >> reporter: here's a bit of good news. an faa spokesman tells me he has no reports of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job at any of the three major bay area airports. >> that is a small measure of comfort. thank you. >>> now to a story we have been following since it broke last week. we now have a description of a man who broke into a grad housing apartment and sexually assaulted a woman while she slept. the suspect is now described as dark-skinned, about 30 years old, 5'6" tall

at a certain time, you have to bite the bullet and retain new employees. i don't want to burden future boards with biting this bullet. i would be interested in looking at this report. >> i have a final question. i wanted to ask yo uwha ti -- you what i asked h.r. has your office analyzed how the fire department was able to do their work and only spend $7.2 million in fiscal 2006. and then 26.6 a couple of years later. the department indicated that they had not done this analysis. has the comptroller's office? >> i would have to go back. it had to do with the brownouts. in that particular fiscal year. stations browned out over the course of the year to reduce the budget. a lot of the savings is in overtime. >> that would be great. let's turn it over to our fire chief. he is here with monica fields, a deputy chief, and the chief financial officer. and if i may, i was thinking of thanking you and the fire department personnel, who dealt with the fire in the mission. thank you, and your members, for the work they did. >> thank you. >> go right ahead. >> it feel

at this point, i think they are operating on a two-week extension. ideally, we would haveederal budget at the beginning of the fiscal year, but that seems to be difficult for them. and is challenging for us because it means it is hard to plan. the president proposed his budget in the middle of january, and proposed some significant cuts to programs that affect community members in san francisco and that will also affect our budget. many of those cuts were proposed at even deeper levels by congress. so i thought i would review a couple of the major cuts that have been proposed and what those level of cuts would look like if they were adopted by congress. for example -- and you will here momentarily from the mayor's office of housing, the community development division -- in greater detail. an annual basis, the city receives approximately $22 million, and those funds support a variety of computing -- community programming. most of those funds are channel through non-profit organizations in the community. on an annual basis, we receive about $22 million. the president propose

have id? now you take something like a school id? >> yes. >> i am looking at the staff, i don't administer that part of the policy. >> we have heard really strong opinions and also different sets of facts in terms of what is going on. one of the concerns is that the hours are more limited. how was this done before? >> i think that the garden has always had these operating hours. >> so, i think in the past, the garden is in a fenced in area. the garden has operating hours. the hours are getting reduced, there is less access. do you have a response to that? >> i think that has to be a valid point. the garden operates 8 hours. this is open 8 hours. nine hours a day during the summer, seven days a week. i think that there has been -- 10-4, i'm sorry, six hours during the winter. >> all of the revenue from the city comes from rec and park? >> after expenses. in order to increase revenue -- >> in order to increase revenue, i am wondering what the budget would be? >> we have the golden gate park collaborative which includes the academy of sciences which includes the

if you have kids at home what do you keep for them? make sure you keep them entertained and have food they like. the most useful tool in a disaster? scissors. if you use clothes you will be cold. [inaudible]. duct tape. many uses. you want garbage bags. line the toilet with trash bags. you want to line it, line it up use the tape, tape it around. the other bag to hold it. put a second bag in there. in a disaster you don't have to go outside you use your own bathroom close the door. you have one lined on the toilet, you take it out and tie it up. comfortable shoes. if you have one in the trunk of your car that's great. also have one at work. get an old pair of sneakers, put it in your bag and put if under the desk. if you have to walk home you have comfortable shoes. pet food. make sure you have food and water for them. kids, too. make sure you have stuff to keep them entertained. after 2 hours, you will be in trouble. be aware of that. information. these are the initially, you are going to have all the radio stations will have emergency

you have to look at the whole system, and the people know, this is one or two minutes. when this starts to happen, you have to be ready, to say this is for everybody. and i am old enough that i do not have the problems that most people have, but i may get them some day before this is implemented. were you would have had to walk that stop, and then there would be -- you have to allow time. some of the of the things that were not mentioned, turn back, where you about this on five- minute schedules, maybe they do not need five-minute schedules. maybe they need 10-minute schedules, and you have more service in the middle. i think this is all stuff you should be doing, and i will forward to it. chairman nolan: director heinicke? director heinicke: first of all, just to reiterate what was said, what i had written down, when we put in the first changes, we have a lot of people come to say that the sky would fall if we did some things, and the sky is still there, and while i think people are not going to say this, i think people are accommodating these changes well. i would urge

we do not have a development proposal at this time. we have been looking at having something like that for review later this year. so that we are all on the same page. moving forward, these get more conceptual. the infrastructure financing plan, starting on our way through for seequa board approval in 2012. if everything starts to come together we could start to break ground in 2014. i wanted to quickly go over what the actions we are asking for is. we are going to come back for the approval. we have the right, if this doesn't work out, to go to a different partner. this is not an actual project proposal. it is about agreeing to all of the different things that we would have to look at to understand how to do the project. we ask you to approve the resolution in the packet. let us know if you have any questions. >> is there any public comment on this item them upset -- item? deposit 9a or b? >> commissioners, amos [unintelligible] -- my name is [unintelligible] and the first gap i will explain to you is that i recognize the first people

so it'll be heavily scrutinized. >> host: have you talked with at&t or t-mobile representatives? >> yes. they came into my office the wednesday after the announcement and met with me. >> host: what about sprint or verizon? >> guest: we have not yet met on this proposed merger, but i imagine once it's filed, i will be meeting with all of the interesting parties. >> host: and, again, i want to show one little piece of video of michael copps talking about potential conditions on the merger and get your response. >> guest: i would hope if there's going to be a majority at the commission that is going to approve of this that we would be, obviously, looking at market by market and what divestitures might be called for. that's certainly important. i think, certainly, the open internet, network neutrality is important. and just looking at a level of concentration and market power across the board is important, so it's, it comes town to all -- comes down to all of the considerations go into deciding whether this services the public convenience, interest and necessity, that's our charge, an