thes are pictures of it the reason we are focused on this dam iit provides most of sydney's drinking water. the concern is a flash fromsk te will be put into the reservoir by the rain and then contaminate the city's water supply. this is an article from the guardian saying that the bureau of meteorology is saying heavy rain could cause damage and the concern is that that will afft the water quality that is coming in to sydney. we will have further coverage of the bushfdees and the thtorms in australia in later addition of "outside source." see you then. announcer: funding for this presentation the freeman foundation; y and peter blum-kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for s;america's neglected ne and byibutions to this pbs station from viewers le you.

iit would be hard to ask other agencies to pay into that even though they benefit from that. that is part of the coordination roll for san francisco on rail matters. i think we will ask for contributions from the other agencies to support the dtx rail program and projects. we each need to staff up as pointed out not only by the peer review but the peer review that everyone needs to staff up on rail. the staffs is thin. now we see the renaissance of an interest in pursuing the agenda. we need to build capacity. >> mr. wil labr un. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for taking care of this issue, which is long overdue. it seems to me with what is happening with the central subway and involving the project from last 10 years expanding that contract for another two years is not the smartest thing to do. with regard to costs, if you terminate these contracts instead of expanding two years, you are probably looking at a saving of $2 million. now with regard to the proposal of the position, this is so important to the city of san francisco that i think that the position of rail

iit would be hard to ask other agencies to pay into that even though they benefit from that. that is part of the coordination roll for san francisco on rail matters. i think we will ask for contributions from the other agencies to support the dtx rail program and projects. we each need to staff up as pointed out not only by the peer review but the peer review that everyone needs to staff up on rail. the staffs is thin. now we see the renaissance of an interest in pursuing the agenda. we need to build capacity. >> mr. wil labr un. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for taking care of this issue, which is long overdue. it seems to me with what is happening with the central subway and involving the project from last 10 years expanding that contract for another two years is not the smartest thing to do. with regard to costs, if you terminate these contracts instead of expanding two years, you are probably looking at a saving of $2 million. now with regard to the proposal of the position, this is so important to the city of san francisco that i think that the position of rail

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community in san francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. >> my passion for civil service is inspired by a tradition. scda stands for supervisorory control and data acquisition. we can respond to an alarm, store history, so we can look at previous events and see what went wrong and if we can improve it. operations came to scda and said, can you write a program that would run the pumps at crystal springs pump station to eliminate peak power usage during daytimes, and we performed that function. i love the puzzle. every time there's a problem that comes up, it's a puzzle that has to be solved, and we do it. >> travis writes all the code for the original water system. he is super passionate. he knows every little detail about everythi

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iit is a thin veil from from being homeless on the street. i never tried t to do a this wih you. you never know who lives in these vehicles. thank you may or breed for putting the money forward because it was $1 million to say let's try this out. thank you to this community for stepping up to say let us be the first. i absolutely feel we are going to need more through the city like we need navigation centers, homeless centers, we need more. this is the beginning. thank you everyone for coming and for sharing and supporting. let's move forward. thank you. [applause] >> the folks that will manage this is urban. they are the wantings who have been doing an incredible job with the civic center, ambassadors of the community. managing the public toilets or overseeing public spaces in other areas and trying to get people help and support, and in some cases connectedded to the homeless outreach team. this are an invaluable resource in san francisco. the person in charge is lana miller. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you. i want to thank everybody who allowed us to be part of

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iit has kind of fallen apart a little bit. a lot of overgrowth material, and we're going to refurbish that space and make it a destination space so it is friendly and more inviting for the public to enter to experience lakes from that perspective. lastly, north lake was renovated. i was privileged to be part of that project in 2002, 2004, as part of the original golden gate pond program. these are some photos i shared with the public. these are representative of rec vegetation removal, the spreading of a new clay liner, an 18-inch clay liner, and then new landscape and irrigation around the perimeter. that is something i shared with the public. again, i hosted several tours at the site with some of these organizations that have a vested interest out here. a community meeting that was well-received by all that attended. public funding, this is part of the 2012 park bond. we'll supplement some of those funds with open space funds to create a project that we're estimating at $8 million. the construction costs are roughly $7 milli

iit has kind of fallen apart a little bit.f overgrowth material, and we're going to refurbish that space and make it a destination space so it is friendly and more inviting for the public to enter to experience lakes from that perspective. lastly, north lake was renovated. i was privileged to be part of that project in 2002, 2004, as part of the original golden gate pond program. these are some photos i shared with the public. these are representative of rec vegetation removal, the spreading of a new clay liner, an 18-inch clay liner, and then new landscape and irrigation around the perimeter. that is something i shared with the public. again, i hosted several tours at the site with some of these organizations that have a vested interest out here. a community meeting that was well-received by all that attended. public funding, this is part of the 2012 park bond. we'll supplement some of those funds with open space funds to create a project that we're estimating at $8 million. the construction costs are roughly $7 million, and

. >> there is an attempt making iit boring or c-- >> i love to call witnesses. we just can't have witnesses. i think the attempt to take down the temperature in a hundred different way right now. whether that's having no access to journalists talking senators or no witnesses or no documents. that's not a process problem, it is a fact problem. >> what's the status of the evidence that needs to be provided to the public. how much is still being hidden from the public. >> well, we don't know. i think the short answer is as we have learned this year just this week from the lev parnas revelation, we have seen a tip of the iceberg and that the more that congress probes, the more the press probes and more we discover. the fact that it is destructed by the president is the second article of impeachment so it is essential, with that said, it is important to recognize even if we had nothing but what was found in the house. that's enough sufficient bases to go ahead and probe for more. >> meredith, the attempt we are seeing from the trump administration and his lawyers and

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iit is the extra panel's report. the ta did concur at the time of approval in october. i appreciate all of the staff that spent countless hours working with us and many of the agencies at the partner table came in for funding. the transportation authority was pleased to approve funding for the fourth and king rail yard's work and 22nd street station as well as pennsylvania avenue. those pieces have gone forward. what is pending we have a request. this feedback is very important to us. one of the thingsness will be for us to review the recommendations of the panel and decide how to go forward. we will provide the leadership that i appreciate you mentioning. this is the time to focus and learn from the lessons of the prior mega projects. we looked at so many together, all of us. this are very few that are delivered on time and budget on this scale. one of the things to discuss is the panel goes to make those hard choices if we have the train by 2030, that may not be achievable with the x billion dollars more for pennsylvania program. there is exciting opportunities, but t

are thinking about going out for a run this morning, a jog, a nice walk, go ahead and go for isssithe iitout heading to a sunday service this morning either. another check of the forecast in just a bit right here on abc 7 mornings. meanwhile, we want to get to that state of energy in australia. the astonishing devastation has now burned some 12 million acres in the land downid rht here is taking. the nation's military and other agencies are rushing to help fight the country's worst wild fires in decades. more than 1,500 homesave been destroyed. currently 140,000 residents are under evacuation. one worldwide fund for nature expert believes nearly half a billion animals are in danger or have been killed. conditions only being made worse this weekend by high temperatures and strong kids. abc news reporter has more. >> reporter: firefighters are facing an uphill battle as devastating fires burn across australia. >> information on another life lost and we extend once again our sympathies of the families of those who lost their lives, not just last night but now over many months. >> reporter: 1

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community incisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. >> we take a lot of pride in what we do. the electric shop covers all of waste water, so out of this location here, we cover everything from oceanside to southeast plant and all the computations including treasure island and yerba buena. we have all the preventative responsibility, maintaining maintenance and also keeping up with work orders from operations. i would say one of the things fortunately for me is the staff is incredibleably motivated. the staff here knows what to do, how to do the job safely, and it makes my job incredibly easy. >> they know the job, and they know the challenges, and i think it's all about personal pride. they want to do a good job. from our maintenance

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iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing navigation centers to a neighborhood that has not had them. it takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. if we don't get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. this is the third navigation center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. they are the first step. the next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. everybody is for housing, but in someone else's neighborhood, in someone else's city. i can't tell you how often i hear let's build a homeless center in stockton. let's make it someone else's problem. let's not solve the san francisco problem here. ship them somewhere else. that is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. we are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. you wouldn't know it by many of the issues we have. this is not a financial issue. this is not an issue of money or resources. the state is doing

the state will also introduce the person who will be iit.he latest crime stats from 2019 today as well. all of this is coming just days after the laptop robbery that turned deadly. people in the montclair neighborhood gathered to w kledle chasing the sterday. thieves who took his laptop while he was at starbucks. now these are the two men who have been charged in the crime. javon lee and byron reed are due in court today. amy hollyfield is starbucks. amy? >> you have to see this memorial. every window on this corner of starbucks in the montclair neighborhood is covered with post-it notes. everyone has written thoughts, condolences about the victim. this is where that laptop theft happened. shuo zeng was at the starbucks on new year's eve, also his birthday. it was around 11:30 in the morning when someone stole his laptop. zeng chased after the thief and was hit by the getaway vehicle and killed. there was a vigil for him yesterday. hundreds of sharing stories about the 34-year-old physics specialist. >> he was a person who was kind and respe

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iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing navigation centers to a neighborhood that has not had them. it takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. if we don't get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. this is the third navigation center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. they are the first step. the next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. everybody is for housing, but in someone else's neighborhood, in someone else's city. i can't tell you how often i hear let's build a homeless center in stockton. let's make it someone else's problem. let's not solve the san francisco problem here. ship them somewhere else. that is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. we are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. you wouldn't know it by many of the issues we have. this is not a financial issue. this is not an issue of money or resources. the state is doing

iit is not easy to come down hee on friday afternoon. we really appreciate you taking the time. i can speak for everyone to have this meeting. thank you. please give caffe sapore the business status they so deserve. thank you again. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am dick. i make pot terry for my living. -- pottery. in japan there is a program to recognize crafts people. they are known as living national treasures. there are only 15 such people in the nation of over 150 million people. what is interesting about this reward is the translation. such people are considered holders of an important intangible cultural property. this is a nice definition of caffe sapore. it holds a cultural property that is labeled mediterranean. the united states navy afforded me the opportunity to visit beirut in the early 1960s before it fell into warfare. it was the paris of the middle east, a center of deep culture the, a place where people of the three worlds, major religions lived in peace and respect. that has roots in the attitude towards the stranger. from greek times forward it was beli

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community inan francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program.. >>is program.. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. >> commissioner, i'd like to take roll. >> yes, please. [ roll call ]. >> you have a quorum. you also have with us chief william scott of the san francisco police department and paul henderson. >> thank you, everybody. this is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the police commission. we do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for public comment. i'm going to change slightly the agenda order. i'll ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community inco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. >> drinclear [roll call] item 3, sound producing devices. the ringing of a use of cellphones, pagers and other similar sound producing are remove. the chair may order the removal of the meeting of any person responsible. for the ringing of of use of a cell phone, pager or sound-producing element. the irony. >> item for approval of the minutes from the

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community ins connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. >> please call the role. borden present. eaken present. heinicke present. heminger present. rubke present. torres present. you have a quorum. please be advised that brinkman will not be present. please be advised that the ringing of electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. item 4, approval of the minutes from the december 3r

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community in san francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. >> drinclear [roll call] item 3, sound producing devices. the ringing of a use of cellphones, pagers and other similar sound producing are remove. the chair may order the removal of the meeting of any person responsible. for the ringing of of use of a cell phone, pager or sound-producing element. the irony. >> item for approval of the minutes from the january 7th regular meeting. >> daytona 500 a motion on the january 7th, regular meeting minutes? >> motion to approve. >> second. >>

iit is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community inan francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for thankful and i am thankful for >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for our last meeting of the 2019 calendar year. today is tuesday, december 17th , 2019. could you please call a rollback -- could you please call roll call? [roll call]

iit is not easy to stand in frot of 300 people and talk about homelessness and bringing navigation centersto a neighborhood that has not had them. it takes courage and guts and the city has to support them. if we don't get these centers built, there is no on ramp to housing. this is the third navigation center i have had the honor of standing with mayor breed as we opened them. they are the first step. the next step has to be, as she said, permanent supportive housing. everybody is for housing, but in someone else's neighborhood, in someone else's city. i can't tell you how often i hear let's build a homeless center in stockton. let's make it someone else's problem. let's not solve the san francisco problem here. ship them somewhere else. that is not what the city and state is about, and that is not what leadership is about. leadership is about taking a problem on and solving it here. we are the fifth richest economy in the world, california is. you wouldn't know it by many of the issues we have. this is not a financial issue. this is not an issue of money or resources. the state is doing

iit is the extra panel's report. the ta did concur at the time of approval in october.te all of the staff that spent countless hours working with us and many of the agencies at the partner table came in for funding. the transportation authority was pleased to approve funding for the fourth and king rail yard's work and 22nd street station as well as pennsylvania avenue. those pieces have gone forward. what is pending we have a request. this feedback is very important to us. one of the thingsness will be for us to review the recommendations of the panel and decide how to go forward. we will provide the leadership that i appreciate you mentioning. this is the time to focus and learn from the lessons of the prior mega projects. we looked at so many together, all of us. this are very few that are delivered on time and budget on this scale. one of the things to discuss is the panel goes to make those hard choices if we have the train by 2030, that may not be achievable with the x billion dollars more for pennsylvania program. there is exciting opportunities, but to be respon

iit is effective january. last december, everyone rushed in. that's why when you see the filing permit increase substantially, that is why. we had 97% in crease in the whole permit for the major portion. any question? >> seeing none, thank you. >> item 12d, update on code enforcement. >> good afternoon, commissioners. ed sweeney. deputy director inspection services, with december 2019s numbers. building inspectors performed 4828 complaints. 408 complaint responses within 24 hours. the first notice of violations was 48. complaints received, 220. compliance with notice house inspection services, house inspections perform, 827. complaints received, 384. complaint response, within 72hours, 350. complaints with notice of vocallations issued, 141. number of cases sent to the director's hearing, 32. routine inspections, 110. number of cases sent to director's hearing, 101. number of order abatements issued, 14. number of cases under advisement, 10. code enforcement inspections performed, 233. there was no litigation committee last month. and number of

iit is effective january. last december, everyone rushed in. that's why when you see the filing permit increase substantially, that is why. we had 97% in crease in the whole permit for the major portion. any question? >> seeing none, thank you. >> item 12d, update on code enforcement. >> good afternoon, commissioners. ed sweeney. deputy director inspection services, with december 2019s numbers. building inspectors performed 4828 complaints. 408 complaint responses within 24 hours. the first notice of violations was 48. complaints received, 220. compliance with notice house inspection services, house inspections perform, 827. complaints received, 384. complaint response, within 72hours, 350. complaints with notice of vocallations issued, 141. number of cases sent to the director's hearing, 32. routine inspections, 110. number of cases sent to director's hearing, 101. number of order abatements issued, 14. number of cases under advisement, 10. code enforcement inspections performed, 233. there was no litigation committee last month. and number of

iit funds our basic operations. this year given the increase in the workload we are requesting an additional $486,000 from the city and county. so the total request would be almost $784,000. this would fund two full-time positions, a public bank consultant, and, again, we're still working on that exact number and trying to figure out what kind of resources we'll need. some funds to continue our labor research which would be leveraged with additional funds from private foundations, assuming that our fundraising is successful. and i'm also asking for additional funds, a modest request, i think, for a communication plan. here are the line items. i know that this chart is probably hard to read but they're also in your packets and available on the lafco website. again, we are asking for about $784,000 to fund lafco's work in the coming fiscal year. i think that it's not that big of an increase, actually, when you take into account how much outside money we raised last year, which roughly doubled our budget. so i'll be co

iit funds our basic operations. this year given the increase in the workload we are requesting an additional $486,000 from the city and county. so the total request would be almost $784,000. this would fund two full-time positions, a public bank consultant, and, again, we're still working on that exact number and trying to figure out what kind of resources we'll need. some funds to continue our labor research which would be leveraged with additional funds from private foundations, assuming that our fundraising is successful. and i'm also asking for additional funds, a modest request, i think, for a communication plan. here are the line items. i know that this chart is probably hard to read but they're also in your packets and available on the lafco website. again, we are asking for about $784,000 to fund lafco's work in the coming fiscal year. i think that it's not that big of an increase, actually, when you take into account how much outside money we raised last year, which roughly doubled our budget. so i'll be co

iit was his $100 million, i thik they focused on 25 races, they won 23. he's applied money.really went a long way to destroying the nra. michael bloomberg knows how to apply capital to situations and he's a very serious individual. he's got a personal a vendetta against president trump. i think he hates president trump. people have to start taking him seriously. mocked and ridicules me when i first started talking about this. he has $50 billion. he can apply as much as he wants to this race. people must take him seriously. maria: he did it for his run in new york city. >> $300 million in the third run. maria: the wall street journal writes it's the game plan he used for mayor when he outspent the mayor nearly five to one. we don't know what his you priorities are, other than climate and guns, guns and the environment are his two. he said he has a jobs plan. i don't know what it is. can you just jump dump a lot -- dump a lot of money and become a factor without having a policy that resonates with people. >> he's going to bias -- buy as many policy experts as he has to. he wil

iit funds our basic operations. this year given the increase in the workload we are requesting an additional $486,000 from the city and county. so the total request would be almost $784,000. this would fund two full-time positions, a public bank consultant, and, again, we're still working on that exact number and trying to figure out what kind of resources we'll need. some funds to continue our labor research which would be leveraged with additional funds from private foundations, assuming that our fundraising is successful. and i'm also asking for additional funds, a modest request, i think, for a communication plan. here are the line items. i know that this chart is probably hard to read but they're also in your packets and available on the lafco website. again, we are asking for about $784,000 to fund lafco's work in the coming fiscal year. i think that it's not that big of an increase, actually, when you take into account how much outside money we raised last year, which roughly doubled our budget. so i'll be co