i welcome the change and i would like to co-sponsor. thanks president chiu:. president chiu: supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: this was not easy legislation to put together to move forward. in fact, it was incredibly difficult and required a lot of balls. i want to acknowledge my aide who did unending work on this legislation. it took on -- it took a talented person to put this all together and make it happen. i want to acknowledge him publicly -- her publicly for her work. supervisor cohen: could you please add me? >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor elsbernd: i am sorry to have to rain on the parade here. there is a principle here i can i get past. over six months we will be entering into discussions with our own public employees and we will say to them, we have no money for raises. and maybe we have enough money to keep you that status quo but more likely than not, we will say to our 25,000 + employees we have concessions. the principle of prevailing wage tells private employers we do not care about the economic circumstances of things. you need to con

i have a brief presentation that i will walk through, and then i welcome the opportunity to answer questions. one point i want to make, in addition to the fact that this covered in a limited period of time in the past, it also covered a limited scope, in terms of the capital projects and programs the agency delivers. it covered certain projects within our capital division. we also deliver projects elsewhere in the agency, such as sustainable streets. it is just a caution about extrapolation through the entire capital delivery process of the agency. however, all of the corrective actions i will be speaking to our agency what improvements. i am just going to walk through the audit concerns and then talk about some of the things that are underway to address them. you heard from the team what the main areas of concern were. i will start with what i think is the most important, most concern to you all, to me, and to the public, including the way it has been portrayed. they did look at baseline budget and schedules for a selected number of projects and found, relative to the baseline that were est

i welcome the government's moving to the formula, but in the meantime, we look at the serious situation with regard to those schools. >> my hon. friend is quite right. we need to sort out the problem before looking at a funding problem. i believe it is flawed, and that is why we are reforming it. we will happily discuss how we can deal with the problem. the growing evidence is academy schools are not just good for people who go to those schools but actually raising the standards in those areas they are raising the standards of all schools of the same time. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister told us unemployment would fall in each year of this parliament. today unemployment rose for the sixth month in row. does he think it has anything to do with his government? >> the government takes absolute responsibility for everything that happens in our economy, and i take responsibility for that. any increase in unemployment is difficult, and it can lead to real difficulty for the family, and that is why we are taking so much action to try to help people get back to work. if you look at the figur

i welcome those comments. that is one of the reasons i wanted to have this item because i do think that these are the kinds of things that we can do, and i think that one approach might be to simply give direction to staff to continue gathering what is available and may be to compile some of that information. depending on where that is, at some point, we also have the ability in our funding, if we need to hire any experts to shed light on some of the data to do that. staff could definitely come back to us with a more specific proposal on what that would look like. commissioner avalos: i would recommend that we move forward on that. again, i just want to reiterate -- i think it is worthwhile looking at how many places around the country do have rank choice voting. it would be useful to have as a comparison. i think that is part of what the attack on rank choice voting has been in san francisco -- that it is not a very common thing, but we have had it almost 10 years, and i had never really heard those comments u

deal with this and create a more profitable policy around dealing with very serious crimes, and i welcome the opportunity for having been here today. thank you very much. [applause] >> jeff adacci has a few closing remarks. >> i am a public defender. >> good afternoon. i am with the d a's office. >> in closing today's program, we want to first of all thank all of you for being here and being part of this discussion. no doubt, we achieved a great deal. this was not just another talking head conference where people were just here to give a speech. you really heard engaged discussion from this morning all the way up until now. we thank our panelists because they came here with an open heart and an open mind. we are going to talk in a minute about how we are going to move things forward. i want to thank the staff of the public defender's office and the many volunteers who made this possible. we thank the library staff as well as sfgovtv for their good work here. john came here because we invited him and because he knew that he is making a difference and will continue to make a difference. aft

i have two more weeks to say this. let me say it clearly. welcome to the world series champion city and county of san francisco. it is a great testament for web .0 to be here for the eighth time. it is your decision to bring this back every year for the last eight years. it just goes to show and prove we're leading the world in technology. san francisco was ranked the no. 1 annual growth for high-tech jobs. this growth is not slowing at all. last week, i welcome one company to their new headquarters on howard street. the least 90,000 square feet of space to tech companies that plan to employ over 600 employees. this is just the tip of the iceberg. according to a recent real estate report, there are 40 technology companies all currently looking for 2 million square feet of office space in san francisco. to put this in perspective, this is the equivalent of four trans- america. midst of space. tech companies employ over 20,000 employees. i am committed to ensuring that san francisco remains at the center of the tech industry. that is why i have create

i wish to welcome at today's meeting of the distinguished minsters and the deputy. the experience of the subject matter to be addressed. item two of the agenda. i wish to draw the attention of councilmembers to document s-2012-71. from the general addressed to the president of the security council. i will give the floor to his excellency, prime minister of the foreign affairs of the state of qatar of the arab league. you have the floor, sir. >> thank you, mr. president. i will speak in arabic so if you would like -- >> translator: in the name of god, the compassionate and merciful, mr. president allow me to congratulate your excellency of assuming the presidency of the security council. i would like to express to you and the members of the council or thanks and gratitude for conveeng the meeting to allow it to carry out the mission to which we were interested. mr. president, the council of minster of the league of arab states adopted resolution in a meeting held on the 22nd of january requesting i say in my capacity of chairman of the arab committee on syria and the

eight days before that, i welcomed home the army national guard. they had been serving in iraq since april. with us here tonight are the battalion's executive officer major carl inkstrom and his wife. we have a father and son who are deployed together. first sergeant kelvin franklin and his wife and his son, first private quentin franklin. gentlemen, thank you for your deep commitment to freedom. [ applause ] >> the brave men and women who volunteer for the virginia national guard are great patriots. we all know that. that's why i propose that we provide in state tuition for the national guard regardless of how long they lived in virginia. [ applause ] >> we have more veterans than any other state. with your help this session, we'll continue to make this the most veteran-friendly state in america. you serve virginia, we serve you. we serve all virginians well when we run a wise and frugal government. defend libertys and the rule of law and care more about enacting good policies than making a good quote. simply put, our people want results, not rhet

i welcome you, colleagues, to actually learn more about the plazas. i am glad that everyone is interested in them. i have a representative of the district, someone who has lived through there and has been walking there for the last 15 years. i have mailed to prospective, which is frankly shared by a significant swath of the neighborhood. it is not just about the condo owners next door who do not like certain been happening there. this legislation, and the issue is happening in the plaza, are the ones identified and advocated for by the people in the neighborhood. that is why there is broad support throughout the neighborhood. i think that it does do a little bit of injustice, or disservice, to say that some of the neighbors nearby are cranky and unhappy and want to be changed. -- unchanged. the supervisor brought up the issue of the aclu. i had a long conversation with them. i think that concerns were addressed, to the extent that they were able to be. the shopping cart provision is gone now. the sweeping provision is identical to what is in our parks

i want to welcome all of you here to san francisco, i want to welcome all of you self-help movement folks local transportation experts, individual that have dedicated your lives. i want to thank you for occupying san francisco this morning. i know i'll get questions there this afternoon. i wanted to be here this morning to welcome your conference, to know that you have a mayor here at greatly appreciates your self-help movement. we have had hours -- prop k -- and we have had many discussions about those. especially with dpw, how to balance that money to make sure that we are getting everything out of it that we can. we are doing everything we can with the sales tax. i hope you have a chance to visit some of the project that are under way because of prop k. we have wonderful projects, one that i am very proud of in helping our infrastructure will come, not only the increased population we are increasing, -- experiencing, but also the need to run the state. i noticed here in your conference you have a focus on the future. i first thought, in my relaxed way, after the election was over, -- t

i would welcome to business r t the devil's economic forum is displaying signs of a split personality this year the likes of the i.m.f. david cameron and george soros warning of potential catastrophes well on the other side a number of heavyweights in dusters who think much of the rescue work has been done among them is under the course and the head of russia's second largest bank. but there was a practical discussions on for example the introduction of new regulations for. banks and financial sector. on the of course it will

because i would feel welcome there. i will not feel welcome going to a religious oriented facility that is providing meals. as a lesbian, and raised catholic, i was never welcomed in that community. i wish you would address that for our community. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. i have been a queer activists for 40 years and counting. i was part of the liberation front in philadelphia. i am proud to say that we stopped aversion therapy on gay men in philadelphia. i have been on the front lines of many battles in the clear community over many years but now face the toughest challenge of my life. growing old in a society and a queer cannady that provide little help for the elderly, especially those of us who are single. i'm going to address the area of housing. though some legal protections exist, far too many of us still are pushed out of our rent- controlled apartments by speculators eager to make scads of money by selling our homes as tic's. where do we go when we are displaced? where's the affordable housing for us? op

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and i welcome to our business update us all thanks for joining me another twist has a march in the gas dispute between ukraine and russia over supply deliveries kiev has come up with a blueprint of what it sees as a way out of the deadlock it wants as gas transportation pipeline to be jointly operated by russia ukraine and the european authorities this will help it keep a neutral position in talks and attract funds to overhaul the pipelines russia had earlier pushed. pipeline in exchange for cheaper prices ukraine would be happy to keep it claims high gas prices may do whale its economy. and russia is pushing it too fast track construction of its southern energy link to europe the south stream pipeline the green light for the neutral gas link from the black sea to central europe will be given in december this year ahead of the gas export monopoly like say miller says the company has all the sources to meet deadlines to remind you the pipeline is a project developed jointly by italy's any france's e.d.f. germany's plan for all. you have some up and coming passenger jets the airbus three

[applause] and so it is that i want to welcome everyone on this very prestigious day. earlier, we had members of the board of supervisors. everybody wants to do something special on chinese new year. i understand that david chiu has officiated a marriage for one of his staff. we will now have many dragons running around. [applause] there are so many other things happening today. it is wonderful. i could ushave used more red at the game last night, but we will move forward. thank you to the postal service and all of the groups. individuals have stepped up like jeff and walter and so many individuals stepping up and using their own time and efforts. the parade in the events leading up to it are about the community coming together to utilize our time, talent, and resources to celebrate and reinvigorate the city. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee. i am pleased to introduce judge chen, a graduate of the university of california at berkeley and also the law school at berkeley. he was appointed a federal magistrate for the northern district of california in april of 2001. aft

i think any type of incentive would be welcome. i don't know what the exact answer would be but it would help us. >> i think you need to go to the legislature, state legislature to get the kind of incentives you want. local municipalities don't have the tools to provide the incentives. there are a lot of things they can do, permit, but they can't reduce the property tax on their owns. you can't reduce benefits unless you have a 2/3 vote of the people in the area. i think you need to go to the legislature. i would be remiss to say we keep thinking 22 years ago. we still haven't repaired the bridge yet. the bridge will be ready hopefully next year. so 22, 23 years later. >> i would just like to say it is extremely difficult to get people engaged in advance to do the things that need to be done and then there's a lot of people, as you mentioned, that will be visits or what not -- visiting or what not that would have no clue. so i think probably as a strategy maybe the next level of the certain nert training is to actually think about w

the legislation compromises at seven, but i welcome feedback today for people to expression their issues on that. and i look forward to hearing from my colleagues to see what they think about it. i will note that the golden gametime national recreation area and presidio trust have contacted me. they are going to be implementing their own dog walker legislation, and they end to cap the number of dogs at six. they have been very clear about it, and that is what they intend to do. with that i look forward to today's hearing. we have a few preliminary speakers. president chiu: so the amendments you will be proposing at the end, my understanding those are going to be present today, and they are substantive? >> they are actually not -- thank you for minding me of that. the committee is not able to vote on the amendments today because of a technical error on the knowing of the fee aspect of the hearing. i will ask that the committee adopt the amendments and continue the matter to january 9th, trip i would imagine we would vote on the entire ordinance. but i believe we can adopt the amendments t

welcome, february. >> i will welcome it with open arms. audio tapes released from jfk is presidency. >> they reveal what pres >> that canada central library recently related the final 45 hours of recordings made during the last month of john kennedy's presidency. >> the final tape was recorded two days before his death. >> those last few tapes in the last few months, he had one more reelection campaign and was thinking color television for the convention. his children apparently. the office door when a certain foreign minister was there. then he brings up their dog. we know another part of the story. she met the russian leader chris jeff at a dinner and ran out of things to say so they talked about a dog'ss in space. those tapes are much more audible than the secret recording system, one that can be last used in 1963. making plans for the following week. trying to juggle his calendar. for jfk, it would be reminded that never came. -- a monday that

as principal, i want to welcome everyone to this event. it is important, not only for o'connell students, but all of san francisco. the district is making a push to include, improve, and pushed toward education. today, we are here to celebrate another reason of how o'connell is supporting and encouraging all students to be prepared for college and for a career. while some people are spending their time looking at what students are going to college, which are going to a career, with this new tech 21 program, the courses will support students to be prepared for a career, and for college. that is the difference between the programs of before and now. the new tech 21 courses will require students to be able to apply tougher math concepts. the program will recruit students that are college-bound and students that want to go straight into the workforce. the whole purpose is to make sure that these students are prepared for the requirements that internships and jobs are asking for out of high school. we want to ensure all of the graduates are pre

i welcome the debate that we could have here. let's move on. there are -- mr. johanns is right. the courts will decide. i believe they will decide that the agency is constituted properly. i believe they will see that when you just try to block a nominee for the sake of blocking a nominee, you don't get anything done, and i hope we can end this idea of a boycott. i think the attempts to boycott by dug-in opponents are losing steam and i hope we can get on with the debate. people are tired of obstructionism for the sake of obstructionism. and everyone on both sides of the aisle, no matter how strong their views, participating in this morning's hearings understand that. i hope as the year goes on we're able to convention our colleagues that it would be better to rejoin the debate on the playing field rather than just take their ball and go hole. particularly on such on important issue. so that was my statement. i appreciate your being here mr. cordray and look forward to working with you to bring consumers some rights. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. welcome to the committe

the legislation compromises at seven, but i welcome feedback today for people to expression their issues on that. and i look forward to hearing from my colleagues to see what they think about it. i will note that the golden gametime national recreation area and presidio trust have contacted me. they are going to be implementing their own dog walker