that would then help us as a city to be better prepared to meet those expectations, whether in the hospitality, restaurant, hotel -- it cetera. since you are the master planner here. what about hot air balloons over the bay watching the race? i am just saying. also, people coming from overseas, and all this distance, they do not mind paying. that is not to say that you want to discriminate against, and we certainly want the public to be able to view this and have access to it, but i do not see any issue of people who want to have better service paying for a covered stand. i have tickets that allow me to be here. and somebody could still come in for free. people are willing to pay. for good service. and corporation will pay to host customer is watching this as well. there are other things and you could do on the private side in addition to making sure the public has access to watch this great the event. >> we are looking at a lot of different areas, including shuttle access, taxi access. i think finding a different price points is something that we want to do to allow people to strategize in a

city. in all disciplines, to the neighborhood cultural centers, this reputation as a cultural city really helps to bring all those people here, to help us to sustain the largest employment sector of the city, the hospitality industry. the hotel taxes and we capture the benefits, the direct benefits to the city of this interest in the city. and the hotel tax brings in 62% of what, in the current fiscal year, will go to the general fund. and only 20% will go back to the cultural sector. all the different things that we do there. some of this funding also goes to support housing. i think that as the supervisors are now considering all the different challenges that you are faced with in terms of balancing the budget and making decisions, it is important to remember that the cultural sector, this could be a net debt -- and net revenue generator, and an advanced generator of revenue for the city. can we get these slides? this was the slide for what i just said, and the next slide? this brings into the specifics of the art commission budget, overall, we have been able to, the arts commission has been able to make it through this tough economic

a family, they take care of each other. they're our family as well because they take care of us. >> reporter: firefighters from outside the city limit were not the only ones that helpedprivate ambulance companies provided volunteers so that san francisco fire, emts could attend the services as well. in san francisco, ken pritchett, ktvu news. >>> fire houses across the bay area fire fighters who couldn't attend the service followed it on television. firefighters sat around the table in silence. >> the oakland fire department has a sense of sorrow, our hearts and prayers go out to the families and fellow firefighters. >>> both valerio and perez have tied to oakland, valerio started his career as an emt with acne ambulance service. perez' brother is an oakland police sergeant. he's one of many who spoke at today's funeral. >>> the hybrid department needs several firefighters and paramedic as well as at least one captain. san carlos is currently negotiating with existing employees about their positions, details about the job opening are now posted on the san carlos fire station website. >>> and officials are reminded that transgender patients are -- >>> caltrain reopene

help us build affordable housing for the communities. since these lots are owned by the city, not private entities, we believe strongly that you can help us in building new affordable housing for low income communities. as a close example, the empty lots, here in balboa park. as you know, we are working to obtain that, and we hope you can help us in that. >> thank you very much for your time. [applause] >> thank you, stephanie. juan is going to share about the ability of members to access programs. there have been a real underutilization of workforce development strategies city- wide, citybuild, academies. if you could say bit about that. >> hello, everyone. i am from poder. i am also part of smac, students making a change. that is also in district 11. at poder, we're working with immigrant families. many times, these communities are left out of the conversation, conversations that includes affordable housing and jobs. as many of you know, driving in the state of california, you need a driver's license. in order to bget a driver's license, you have to prove that you are a legal resident of california. we are left out. we depend on cars and vehicles to make a living. it would greatly benefit our community,

how helpful it be to have this ability and will ultimately be cheaper for us as a city, if we're want to talk about what kind of interest that we will pay on a police revenue bonds? >> and can use a little bit more? is there any other factor besides timing about when you go through this revenue route? >> on this slide, we have open public space and in response to your question, we have a debt policy. we itemize the conditions on these issues where we have success, that have been beneficial to us. and conditions from under which we issue -- >> i will talk about this to give you a breakdown, the certificate of participation in the portfolio. this is 26% of the portfolio. this requires we do the analysis that demonstrates that this is beneficial for the city to homebuilding. in this instance, this is the savings of the general fund, with tens of millions of dollars. and we have the other big items. these are in the portfolio, a true general fund. the self supporting office space is revenue neutral, because the department's otherwise would have been renting. this really impact of the gene

as i mentioned, about 20 cents on the dollar, which is why the rainy day reserve is so critical for us. we are obviously extremely indebted to the city for that. it has helped avoid a lot more layoffs. as to the status of the rainy day reserve, i believe it has been incorporated into the mayor's budget. i have run some numbers, and we are eligible for a draw

as i mentioned, about 20 cents on the dollar, which is why the rainy day reserve is so critical for us. we are obviously extremely indebted to the city for that. it has helped avoid a lot more layoffs. as to the status of the rainy day reserve, i believe it has been incorporated into the mayor's budget. i have run some numbers, and we are eligible for a draw. as i was saying about the raid a reserve, i have run some preliminary numbers based on the governor's made revised scenario, and it shows we would be eligible, and i understand it has been inc. -- $8.5 million has been incorporated into the city's budget. that is a number that is also incorporated into budget development funding for the 2011-2012 year. so if you have any questions, i am here to answer them. >> colleagues, are there any questions? ok, seeing none, thank you. i'm going to open it up to public comment now at this point. the public is welcome to comment or ask questions on this particular item. seeing no questions, ok. we are going to close public comment. please read item two. >> it would be the hearing to review and update on the initial education and related expenditures stemming from the core

police department, the fire department for their response in helping us deal with the aftermath of these fires. all that being said, we as a cityneed to do more to invest to make sure our buildings are safe, that these fires don't happen in the first place, the neighborhoods that are in the northeast part of the city are the densest neighborhoods in san francisco. with that density we need to do everything we can to make sure our buildings are not susceptible to fire. next question. >> hi. i'm also a peer organization at the families collaborative. when we go talk to the families a lot of them tell us we're unemployed. industries and businesses have been leaving the city. it's hard for us to find a job. without training and jobs that can -- that we can for without a lot of english, community organizations always tell us that we need to learn english in order to have a job, but what about making a living before i learned english? what can i do? so the jobs now will program in the past doesn't really help people without a lot of english. we're hoping -- we're asking the city that next round of job now's, please have a plan and ha

help out other people in your city. there it is, a place for us to gather as nert members and there's our nert ics area. here is our structure. same kind of set up, sort of our version. command policy section, the planning group, they are up on top. then once things get rolling, you have your operations section, logistics section. here are our objectives on the nert team, figure out if it's big, if it's small, how do we keep track of what's going on? do we just remember it? are we going to rely on our computers, our pc's? no, we have to write it down the old-fashioned way. address, is there a fire, yes or no, damage, are there people injured, dead, can you get there. where, what, any sort of damage, are there people involved, can you get to it? here is a nert status sheet. basically if you send somebody out, you want to send the members' names, what time they went out, when they came back, what the assignment was, any comments, and if you have an incident number that would be nice. who is the safety person? we don't want to send people out, just hey, go do this. we want to keep track of it. if they don'

questions as to whether or not pakistan and in particular its intelligence services was using this group as a front to then help bin laden. >> reporter: the group reportedly has deep ties to the military cityhunted down but officials tell cbs news there was no link between them and the pakistani government anymore. bin laden's journal shows he was worried about al qaeda's image. in a final writings, he said al qaeda was killing too many muslims and that it was bad for business. bin laden was considering giving the terror group a new more religious name to convince muslims worldwide they are in a holy war with america. tina kraus, cbs news. >>> still ahead, do waves really come in sets? and a stolen piece of the moon. >>> if you have outdoor activities, plans, this weekend, go for it. a stellar first full weekend of summer. the rain is back in the seven- day forecast. we'll pinpoint the day to expect it as eyewitness news continues. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, mission 40 years ago. some of it was lifted from a >>> it was once lost but now it's found, moon dust brought back from the apollo 11 mission 40 years ago. some of it was lifted from a film cartridge using apiece of clear tape. the thief t

city that helps us. we have prop h. but the reality, the bottom route is our state doesn't fund anything. our problem, frustration as a school districts. they are not opposed to doing what texas has done. we would love to have social emotional communities. we don't even have the money to have a basic teacher in every classroom. california is an out right disgrace. how can we be the eighth richest economy? we're the 8th richest economy and we rank 48th. we will be dead last. that means louisiana. mississippi. every one will fund education. better than the 8th richest. every one of our children deserve this. we aren't walking the talk. the reality is, we talk a good line. but we don't walk the talk. this public, all the citizens. not only in san francisco, but in california better start standing up for our kids. we are not funding it. let's start getting behind and forcing the politicians to say, the most important thing is our children. >> all right. okay. so that is actually an excellent segway. we have approximately 7 minutes. so i am going to try to squeeze in 2 questions. i want to discuss what we're working with r

a design around his leadership. by voice vote as the mayor and city administrator that when you have strong communities, things like disasters, we will have strong neighborhoods to help us recover back. this is the beginning of that. i want to give you this certificate on behalf of the city, parks trust, the challenge grant program. thank you for all of the leadership you have had. [applause] >> water? [inaudible] [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor, for your leadership on this. during his time as dpw director, during the community challenge grant program, and now as mayor, it is great for us to see a mayor that gets it on what matters to our neighborhoods and is encouraging all of the departments to embrace things the way he did. thank you for your leadership in enabling things like this to happen. someone else who really gets this is the supervisor that represents this area. he is very much focused on the importance of keeping the streets and sidewalks cleans welcoming, and beautiful. i know he was regretful he was not able to be here today. he did send a representative from david campos' office. >> i want to thank the mayor for his kind words. as a member of the commi

citi can help you write it. >>> take a look at this. new fountain. the fountain was designed to give people a fun way to cool off. city council members say it's being used asned and sanitized. city officials are look at ways to stop people from using the whales tail as a bathroom. >>> starting today yosemite national park is changing the way you make camping registrations. now you will have to show id before you check into a camp site. also you won't be able to change the name on the reservation. later this summer they will stop putting canceled registrations back into the system. >>> a former san francisco high school football star has died after being shot last month. i want to show you video from david henderson from 2007 wearing number 24. he graduated in 2008 after setting a number of city records for rushing. he was shot on may 26th in the cities bay view district. the 21-year-old died monday after doctors removed him from life support. investigators say they have no suspects in that shooting. >>> time now 5:56. city officials in santa clara admit there are pretty big hurdles to clear before building a stadium for the 49ers. this week the 49ers annou

as we come to a a close, i want to thank the staff. i know every year it is more and more painful, and i want to thank our city partners who have helped us in and stay afloat and all of the community partners and then play a big role -- community partners but play a big role. the cuts would be even steeper if we did not have folks who believe in the work we are doing and believed in our kids. i want to go back to this concept of generating revenue. there are ways we can generate revenue. i am getting mixed feelings about a summer school. it is one of those places that is not engaging but they go because they have to, and it is depressing to see them working on one subject because a variety of different reasons over the school year, but i know it is really helpful to your your -- really helpful. i really want to think about how we are spending our dollars, so if we are going to utilize our attendance liaison, let's utilize in a way where we are identifying students who are showing habitual studios in a secure a good -- habitually studios. i would like to see where those dollars are going. i also want us to plan ahead. we and the scramblin

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as the city's murder rate begins to climb. but as kiet do explains, there was a last-minute deal to help ease some of the pain. kiet do joins us now with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's a tough situation. the chief here at san jose police says that the 100 officers who are about to be laid off are the youngest and the best and the brightest here and that they represent the future of the department. and so the 100 officers who got pink slips are not the only ones affected. there are other positions here. 80 affected here at the police department. they will be using lower paid civilians to fill in some of these positions at the police department and they will also be outsourcing some of the officers at the airport as well and that will go to the santa clara county sheriff's deputies. this could not have come at a worse time here. the last-minute vote yesterday by the union approved a 10% pay cut for one year and that avoided another 156 officer layoffs. this vote came on the same day of the 27th homicide of the year for san jose. the murder rate in san jose is now double the average that it was in the past de

revenues, are helping us to rebuild the system as we operate probably one of the busiest systems in this country. we carry about 700,000 people a day. our population is about 800,000 people in this city. we are one of the most productive systems, probably, next to new york city. but that comes with some challenges. we are about 100 years old in terms of our operations, so you have probably experienced as recently as february 26 and 27, a major track renewal program that we had to do at church and dubose. that is ongoing work we are doing at other lines, and this spring, we begin the major work to totally replace the intersection and improve traffic flow for both the n and j lines

help in the general fund creating more money for us. >> good morning, everyone. i am president of the board of education the key for having me. san francisco unified as a separate entity from the city. we are funded by the state, but we rely heavily on the support services and funding from the city. without that, we would not have been able to be afloat as we have had the last couple of years. leadership has been tremendous. it has severe impact on public health at all the things that our city is made of. you want to make sure that our kids are graduating. the last couple of years, we have been doing a multi-year budget. last year, we're looking at about $113 million for a budget deficit. we worked through that with the labor partners, cutting the costs hit as many places as possible and try to stay as far away from the classroom as possible. we're looking at an additional $25 million on top of the hundred and 13 budget deficit. we have tried to do as much as we can in continuing to be more efficient in cutting back. we're continuing to do for love days. this last year, we're talking about increasing some of the class's, cutting back on some of the programming in it has been a real

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