the in the city to changes in things like construction cost fees and rent. and essentially the model works by looking at every parcel in the city that could potentially develop office. nonpublic parcels are excluded. and looks back over the period of 2001 to 2018 and looks at where office did and did not develop and makes a function of that as a function of parcel specific factors, what's the zoning, what's the capacity on the site as well as market variables at the moment including the price in the construction costs. we provided the full details on the model in the appendix to our report. i'll say here the model did find significant impact of construction costs and negative impact of construction costs on office development. so when development costs increase we do see a holding everything else constant a decline in office development in the city. so that is the finding that we used to simulate the impact of the proposed increase of the fee on office development. the legislation does also increase the fee on laboratory development. we d

cities. i'm the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. the national league of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. each person in this room is here for a reason. if you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. for all of these reasons at its core the city fiscal conditions is about the connection between the needs of community and the ability of local government leaders to addres

including those in the kansas city region. for honor to have her here today to discuss the research. doctor prescott is a professor of history in north dakota and her research focuses on gender and the american west i specifically interception of gender, social class and historical memory. her work in these areas as been published in journal of the west and a historical review and other publications. prescott first book gender from the western frontier was polished in 2007. it traces changing roles and ideology among early white settlers in 1845 and 1900. while her academic focus and training on social history, she had a strong background in areas a public history including the curator ship and management and collections of management and rare book cataloguing and historic preservation. in short, she is the complete historian. please join me in welcoming to the kansas city public library, cynthia press got. (applause) good >> afternoon. merely 30,000 people attended the dedication of the pioneer statute in the valley park in 19

the situation is far more grave in delhi the world's most polluted capital the air in the indian city is 10 times more contaminated than in cologne a trip to delhi is like a trip into germany's past this is how polluted the western european country was 4 decades ago. people try to protect themselves with face masks. we meet up with the shore club she works for the center of science and environment and is an environmental advisor to the government she takes measurements to show us just how bad the air is. like. cut. cut yeah like the 2. but i don't have much choice. but. to be upbeat and bored at home but if you don't actually deal with. the daily threshold value for particles in germany is 50 micrograms per cubic meter of. the measurements show delhi exceeds that by a factor of 30 that were taken in a heavily polluted area still. have issues with it. so i didn't want to lie to evolution as fully as he should he would have. but when it joins us tonight you start looking for definition it does change my mind and now i want to look for the evolution in the evolution if you have ever so t

in a city boasting some of the highest someone find a home in the city. in a city boasting some of the highest rent prices in the country might be a good thing the execution of this program have run prices in the country might be a good thing the execution of this program have has less have less to have left much to be desired because apparently not only are official has less have less to have left much to be desired because apparently not only are officials in the many towns where new york's homeless is land are unaware of the program sills in the many towns where new york's homeless is land are unaware of the program some are even suing new york city over being moved to another city and then abandoned some are even suing new york city over being moved to another city and then abandoned in barely livable conditions so today let's get into the new battlefield in barely livable conditions so today let's get into the new battlefield in the united states

in simple mind on your mobile and for e. t w z e learning course nikos freak german made easy. hong kong a city in danger of not in a state of emergency according to officials tourists leave one of the world's leading luxury holiday destinations high and dry as riots turned violent again and the government invokes emergency powers. the switch from motorbike taxis to be bikes a green old turkey for the busy city streets in uganda capital. and beat the traffic by flying over it through the launches a helicopter service in new york city it costs a little more than a regular captain. and then fizzle and leicester business. leader carry lamb has evoked emergency powers implementing a full ban on face masks prompting even more unrest protesters took to the streets in opposition of the law which was made under the colonial emergency regulations ordinance the measure allows hong kong's leader to create new laws that are in the public interest months of civil unrest have rocked the city and negatively impacted hong kong's of qana me especially the tourism industry. the violent clashes between protesters

those drawn to the courts vitalized the public space in city hall. even when the building is restored, i will not be the same. the city is building a new courthouse that will hope in 1997 and the people will no longer assemble in city hall. there was much more of a vitality of city hall than the courthouse contingent and taxi cab drivers would periodically circle city hall honking horns, with the board of supervisor's refusal to raise taxi rates. some things never change. minority truckers would do the same with rigs to implement city policies and students and recipients would march in front of the building to demonstrate against federal and state cuts in their favourite programmes and even if the city had no power to do anything about the cuts. the board of supervisor's consideration to make the modest increase in rates was certain to attract crowds. senior citizens would come out in droves. only on the steps of city hall could one absorb the reverend ray bucheer and pink panthers. denninged out in full length h habuts. when the say was moving to clo

the national league of cities in the city towns and villages. of america and rethink you for beingal here. the fiscal conditions each person in this room what is happening in cities all over america perhaps you enjoy digging into data to understand the nature of the data if you really want to hear about the pressure city leaders face every day to balance the budget and deal with issues and various policy issues to make sure you are in the right place at the right time with what america will be dealing with how that relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. those conditions are about the connection between the communities and the ability of the leaders to address those needs in the community. why is this suchhy an important report? if you think about what is happening the town leader and village leader that is dealing with the issue at first so this conditions report to see where all cities and communities are not the same to be facing different issues and challenges and to create some reality around the outcomes of this report. some cities may

people are struggling in the city. and what we have in front of us here is an important part of the solution. all the folks who came in who are a part of the good government type organizations like spur, it's concerning to me they didn't comment on the jobs housing report and come forward with us with solutions and partnership but instead just got up there and opposed a real solution to this crisis. we need everybody working together to build more housing especially affordable housing. this is a part of this solution. but it's not the only step that we have to take. but i think it's a critical one because as i said we know what it looks like when we don't act with boldness and urgency and somebody said this was an extreme step. i think if you look at that report and what has happened then with the massive displacement of people who are low income and middle-income in our city, that is extreme. and what we need is a bold and extreme response in order to reverse that trend. so we will continue to have office development g

a neighborhood street festival in the german city of cologne for a dying cause a band pedestrians and bicyclists a free to use the streets normally traffic clogs these roads and clues to be in levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are high in downtown cologne . pediatrician christiane during is trying to raise awareness of the problem. among your kids have a cigarette off. the cigarette made of chewing gum symbolizes the invisible danger of particular matter and nitrogen oxides it represents the 2 cigarettes with toxins during says cologne residents inhale every day. he sees a lot of young patients with respiratory problems in his practice. public in the us dr seuss for fish with an r.p.g. and trip practice is located nearby. in an area with heavy traffic and we've observed an increase in the problems children have in the months when we get temperature inversions they start and then the polluted air is trapped below and there's an increase in respiratory irritants from traffic concert particles from coal fired power plants children get diseases that are more severe and

it's most of what is in the news media where the city council has the biggest debates. with year-to-year changes in constant dollar terms we use what the euro we can out one - - economic analysis uses and to reduce those current dollars and then you can see on this graphic the year over year changes of expenditures of the general fund. if you look on the right side of this. that expenditures are fairly robust 4 percent in 2015 to about 3 percent the last couple years and then they have been declining year-over-year basis. when they were in decline year over year growth has been less. >> but the point i want to make that in the great recession but the fiscal recession really hits primarily because of the lag of property tax receipts by a couple of years. the revenue line really plummets by 2010 to be about 5 percent less than the priort' year. and with that fiscal position of the municipalities today is if you add up the changes of the general fund over the last several years, we have not returned or maybe we have returned to the position for the first year that the gener

in greening the city spaces. if you're not familiar with it, greening the city is a great local nonprofit in helping the residents restore the canopy and the habitat. i'm also currently serving a four-year term on the san francisco bay restoration committee. you might wonder why i want to serve on the urban forest council. i would like to help enhance the health of the san francisco urban forest street tree canopy. i believe better informed residents can be great asset and partners in a mission to have healthy citywide tree canopy. i would also like to find solutions to have needed resources to have reliable and systemic maintenance for the city's trees. my daughter and i both have planted over 20 trees in the city. we think it's a joy that can be enjoyed by so many, including by birds and animals. friends of urban forests has given me rich experiences, and reminds me of the diverse work that's being done to build a sustainable city. i have an economics and management background with a master's in environmental m

in my district. the city of pasadena which saw 20% decrease in its homeless county this year. and they attribute much of this progress to the success of permanent supportive housing. they say it provides stable housing to formerly homeless individuals and families and offers service for employment training and health care and the mod kiloliter work as they have a near 100% retention rate amongst its residents. and of course we have such incredible nonprofits like union station services for the homeless. which provide so many supportive services for the homeless. you talk about permanent supportive housing. why is this important? and how does it play a major role in combatting homelessness, and what can the federal government do to increase it? >> you are exactly correct. the city of pasadena has used its section 8 housing choice voucher programs to project-based housing developments that provide permanent supportive housing just as you describe it. thuf used every possible voucher available. my understanding

well what we're seeing is that a city like kampala is still grappling with lunch in most parts of the city so until that can be done and i think that can be the only time we're going to see the bikes in operation who won't reach an income. what about the electricity they use because i mean it's not going to really make much sense if it's all generated by coal power stations for example i mean how much how much solar is there are available in places like kampala in uganda to ensure that this is green energy that's being used. most of uganda's electricity is hydro electric power and we have renewables like solar as well but the percentages of small are still very slim probably just of paul tree 2 or 3 percent currently in uganda saw the possibility of charging these ebonics is what is going to be in car a lot of cost and because renewable energy in uganda and africa in general doesn't actually have good storage mechanisms so this makes it a bit difficult for green energy to be used on a large scale in most spots all over africa so until we can have good storage systems for renewab

in 2011, i spent a year in the city jail here for a cannabis charge. i thought i did not qualify for thi the equity program because every as i live in did not zone in the zone. i knew i did qualify because my brother had some cannabis arrests here in san francisco. i did not realize he had been arrested. with all of my work and my 25 years here, i didn't think i qualified. so that census, zoning of your residence's address. there were people across the street from me that would have zone, but the addresses i held did not zone. as far as helping the patients, because that's really important. there were all these -- >> sorry, your time is up. thank you so much. >> i just really want to say it's important to maintain what the patients access and it's very true the disenfranchisem t disenfranchisement. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisor. my name is ed donaldson. i'm a lifelong resident here in san francisco. i'm also an equity applicant on two deals with norcal cannabis. i'm also the director of community development f

as we continu need in our city as we continue to grow. the major thing is we are updating our fee so projects in the pipeline will pay $52.20 per square foot, and that will increase to $69.60. there's a phasing in. we recognize that for the pipeline projects that are not expecting an increase of this size, particularly because most of those projects are in central soma and they're paying significant fees. we also will be adjusting the rate of the laboratory fee, so we'll phase it out to $38.37. in recommendations to the small business commission, the smaller projects, so projects between 25,000 and 50,000 square feet will pay a slightly reduced rate, as well, with concerns with those projects' viability and a concern they have a lesser margin. and lastly, we require a nexus and feasibility study be conducted every five years and that will take into account commercial development of varying size so we can see a viability. again, i want to thank members of the land use committee and supervisor peskin for his partnership, supervisor mar, as w

the plots in the heart of berlin is one of the busiest traffic junctions in the city and though it's normally busy with cars today it's also link with climate activists the so-called extinction rebellion has taken over the sides in a global process and what they're asking for through these acts of civil disobedience is traffic measures of climate protection meanwhile the german government here in berlin has come under scrutiny for not offering these measures the climate activists however are showing them mean it they want to continue these acts even though the police is trying to remove them from the sides throughout the coming week. police in hong kong have arrested and charged 2 protesters for defying a new door against wearing face masks year in demonstrations as sort of the courthouse supporters used umbrella's to protect the protesters identities as they were ushered away facemask ban has further a few days of violent protests. and a correspondent has been talking with activists and sent us this report. the chaos nell so widespread it's verging on the surreal. the end is so

but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, y

city-wide strategy. in addition, key priorities and potential city programs and policies. and while complex and challenges could substantially contribute to community stability, in the coming year, the city will assess the implementation of these different key priorities. so over the next couple of months, we will be gathering and compiling input on the public draft. the final report will be released by the end of the year and all of this will feed into the housing affordability strategy in 2022. but i want to end with commissioners, our city is you undergoing a great challenge. this is one of the most difficult issues most major cities are grappling with. how do we grow while protecting our most vulnerable populations. the community stabilization presents a decision for the decision-makers and city agencies to take a strong stance and commit to new, bold policies and programs. thank you for your time. >> thank you. any comments? we will take public comment on this item. >> i'm the policy and planning developer and i wanted to talk some time to come out to support this init

well as mass fires in high rise buildings the protests started after the government announced a hike in city transportation phase. in protest in the lebanese capital beirut have turned violent with police firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators that demanding that the government scrapped plans for new taxes amid a severe economic crisis many want an end to a ruling political class they say is corrupt. to spain now where there's been another night of violence in the city of wasilla as catalan pro independence protesters clashed with police a semi autonomous region of catalonia has rebuke to the country's supreme court for jailing its separatist leaders catalonia regional chief crim torah has called the talks with the central government following 5 days of unrest. as darkness descended on barcelona so too did violence. clashes between protesters and security forces illuminated by burning makeshift barricades . sticks and stones trusses tear gas and rubber bullets. eventually the water cannon roll then. it was a predictable end to a 5th day of protest in catalonia even if the vast majority

in. our family and us starts november 6th on d. w. . city in ruins are a. symbol of among conflicts in the philippines. between the muslims and the christian population last night as fighters occupied the city center in 2017 president to churches response was. the color of. the ring conquest turned into tragedy this is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did morality become a gateway to islamist her. exclusive reports from a destroyed city. the film of the sights of i.r.s. starts october 24th on d w. this is the w. music live from the good man on a mission to stop the fighting a u.s. delegation heads to turkey to try to protest a cease fire and cool to syria u.s. vice president and secretary of state tried to dissuade her to end its assault from the cup but turkey's president is vowing to push ahead regardless also coming up how close to a deal. and european union negotiators appear to be on the brink of an 11th hour sit agreement on.

in germany with currently almost 600000 inhabitants and international and young city most people here are between 20 and 30 years old. that's also because of the university of new main building was inaugurated in 2012 . the ensemble includes the paulino the university church its reconstruction closes the room to the cityscape because the east german leadership blew up its historic pretty sesar building in 1968. the university of life issue is the 2nd always university in germany it was founded in 1409 new where the old are combined in a fascinating way the university is now each juries are traction. since the fall of the berlin wall the people from my place can travel all over the world for example to south america by the way i like to go there to it now. is going to show you a very special place over there the city of la paz in bolivia. he really was i mean here from the path taken the day off to show you the fab sights in my city. is there wasn't even the old town on the plus some you find bolivia's political hot our parliament and right next door the presidential p

city. it is debatable about what effectiveness they may have had in slowing german movement across the city. but, what does barricades did demonstrate was that the parisians were not merely an audience. not bystanders. they were participants in the liberation of their city. they were contributive to contributing to the liberation of their own lives. as parisians were constructing these barricades across the city, in his office, and the hotel just across the street from the gardens, general coltus continue to receive directives from berlin. two s.s. officers appeared in his office telling him they have orders from their commander, heinrich himmler. to take the famous medieval tapestry that was being stored in the louvre museum back to berlin. coltus told them, well, the resistance has occupied the louvre museum. you are welcome to go and get it. not surprisingly, the tapestry did not leave the louvre museum. more seriously though was an order from hitler. reiterating his last man defense directive. at that point, coltus put in a call to his commanding officer's headquarters and over the tele

i mean, look at this point we are -- our city has not kept pace with the population boom in the city.d to have a million people in the city and county of san francisco within the next ten years. i mean, we don't have, you know, a bus system, a rail system that is able to manage that kind of worker-resident traffic. and i think this funding is critical to being able to hire parking control officers. we've seen that successful in helping to reduce gridlock and blocking the box, which is people double parking in our streets. this is one of many tools we need to be employing as a city to make a dent in what is going to be gridlock like no one has seen before. in the south of market, in the center of the city, you can't even -- frankly where all of the tc traffic is, is a heat map of just total gridlock. that's where the tmcs are. we've got to start employing some of the tools we can until the state does something. >> thank you. closing statements. howard? >> as i said i don't think this is needed. they're going to throw money at it and they won't get anything accomplished as with everythi

burton always had an incredible choir and was an incredible force in this city for academics and so many so it really is an honor to be here, because this initiative, opportunities for all, is something that is near and dear in my heart. i am so fortunate because when i was in high school, you know, there was not really a lot of opportunities to learn and to grow and to figure out what i wanted to do in life. i grew up in the western edition in the philmore community in public housing where my grandmother raised me. it was so easy to turn to some of the negative activity that existed in my community. there was drug using, drug dealing, theft, all kinds of stuff that honestly, sadly, so many of the people that i grew up with ended up going down the wrong path. i think that a really important turning point in my life happened when i got that first job. i was 14 and i got a job through the mayor's youth employment and training program. [ laughter ]. >> mayor breed: and i was able to earn my own money because my grandmother was getting welfare and food stamps and all this stuff for us and we

you know when you're trying to build housing in the city or anything in this city, that we have this huge process. i feel like we definitely need to make sure we keep the community input, because that's really important. i have seen many developments become a lot better, after the community input. we also have to make sure that we protect tenants. i don't want to see anyone building anything that displaces tenants. so for me, as we're going to have to build housing. and also -- oh, yeah and also protect tenants. >> okay. thank you very much. ms. o'mara, this next question will be for you. going along with housing, we also have rent control here in san francisco. so the question came in, how do you propose differentiating between small and larger buildings, with regard to rent control. and do you propose stronger or more lenient rent control? >> i think there should be stringent, more stricter laws protecting tenants, with regard to rent control. currently there's a measure for the state of california, where voters will sign a petition to actually have rent control throughout the stat

in the public sector. public sector and private sector. so the city has opened up 38 public municipal-owned garages and invited e.v. developers to come in and develop charging stations. we've gotten proposals for every one of the 38, so we're working hard on the municipal and the public side. what will this ordinance do? it's going to target commercial garages and parking lots with 100 or more park spaces, that's approximately 300 sites in the city. it's going to require level-2 charging stations at 10% of those parking spaces. or a functionally equivalent number of fast chargers. and the compliance date is january 1, 2023. it requires good faith analysis of technical feasibility and ties the permit process to the permits issued by sfpd for commercial parking facilities. >> hold on. can you go back? is this existing garages? all of the garages in the city with 100 or more parking spaces? >> correct, existing. >> you say you tie it to the permitting process, most times they're already permitted, so how are you going to deal with the existing? >> they r

sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have the

it is very expensive to build in cities because of insurance costs, because of land costs. this means to keep this housing cheap and where there is plenty of space, should be built and suburbs. white people in the suburbs don't want affordable housising, low income housing in their communities because they know that will bring african-americans in to those neighborhoods. within black politics, there is a debate among those who see the potential for the development of black politics and black elected officials based on the concentration of black people in cities, but black people in search of housing know that as a captured market within the city that it limits their housing choices, it places downward pressure on the conditions of the housing an upward pressure on the price of housing when they are confined to one aspect of the market. so manany african-american working-class and poor african-americans want housing wherever they can secure it. so all that is to say this is a highly contested issue were african-americans should live, both from white conservatives and white p

can we give it up for a $.6 million in services for the city and county? [cheers and applause] for example, we provide essential funding to three domestic violence shelters including the first in the nation, the asian women's shelter pick the first in california -- [speaking spanish] -- and st. vincent de paul society. through these grants, we are serving thousands of victims and survivors. in 2017, our partners filled in 25,000 service calls, provided 25,000 hours of counseling and reach 12,000 individuals in violence education and prevention programs. our strong network of partners and provider services and dozens -- in dozens of languages works to ensure that their work with the survivors is done in a culturally competent and sensitive way. again, we always look past the numbers and the humanity. the people that faces every day to make sure that we are providing the needs of this community. so make some noise again for our partner agencies who are doing this work every day. we are so proud of you. [applause] even with all of that, the demand is greater t

church occupied the city center. president in his response was. told this is not the kind of freedom that we learn. how did we become a gateway to islamist terror. exclusive from a destroyed city. in the us starts october 24th on w. hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe i'm laura babylonia it's nice to have you with us the debate around gregg's it is dividing britons as the rhetoric between supporters and opponents escalates and queues on both sides are accused of sowing division was in santa tory speech the debates in the house of commons are becoming increasingly heated and the quality of discourse has eroded. i the motions are running high in the palace of westminster. well the hostility and intolerance has become palpable on the streets since the referendum accusations of treason and death threats have become a daily reality for british politicians and close in london are bombarded with abuse online and they're calling for more protection from authority. i don't want to hear. there's a crowd outside the palace of westminster every day mad

sometimes the city gets in its way. i know they will continue to keep these rents affordable for this community. they are doing so much to give back to the city and county. we talked about this over a decade ago. we sat down with mayor lee before i became supervisor. he said he would prioritize this. the reason i bring that up is because this mayor has made not anything more of a priority than building housing. that was when we sat down with mayor lee, that was in the middle of 2016. we are going to the end of 2019. even with everything that -- and i would get monday my phone would ring. every monday i would get the call from him and family members. we are still over three years into getting this project done. this was supposed to be one of the highest priority projects in the city and county of san francisco. i know this mayor is dedicated to finding a way to cut through the layers. when a family wants to give a gift to the city, we have to wait almost three and a half years to get this done. besides all of that, i want

the meeting point in st nicholas church. city guide karen scheuerman shows tourists the focal points of the events of autumn $989.00 she knows what she's talking about because she took part in the monday demonstrations. during the 1980 s. the monday prayers drew more and more people who no longer agreed with the social developments in this part of germany the communist east. in order to understand what happened back then the group heads for the form of contemporary history. that provides a comprehensive picture of the division and reunification of germany. the origins of the s.c.d. the ruling east german communist party. daily life and how the state owned enterprises operated. the fall of the berlin wall in 1900 and open the way to freedom it also meant the loss of a homeland earns an identity topics to foreign consciously focus upon. its being as this. well this is why it isn't called a museum but a forum. we wish to initiate discussion about this it's a great deficit that we don't talk to each other instead everyone has their o