finding gifts and grants to support our operations and that ranges from funding for additional hours at joe lee recreation center for funding to a gardener at the polo feels in golden gate park. we also have a comparatively small amount of expenditures saving that we're budgeting for the next two years. there was a retirement at the zoo. we are down to a very small number of recreation and park department staff who are left working at the zoo. so we were able to eliminate that position from the budget and save $150,000. as phil mentioned at the beginning of the meeting we have been doing some really good work on our workers' compensation through transitional temporary work assignments, through some additional focus on workplace safety. and we are seeing savings in our workers' compensation expenditures. so we're reflecting some of that in the coming fiscal year. as i said we have enough revenue to cover our base budget reduction and cover our non-salary cost increases and cover our revenue corrections and this is going to allow us to begin to restore some of the cuts that the department has mad

joe mansion, mike lee. mr. lee, you first. what is this all about, ten or 11 republicans, jefferson hotel, what's up? >> first of all, when he found out joe and i were not available, we were on your show, he invited a few others to join him instead. i'm not sure what's on the agenda. i hope what it is is the president wanted to interact with members of the other party. >> as i understand it, the not so hidden agenda here is to stop the sequester and to develop some entitlement reforms and some tax reform but tax reform means the president wants to raise revenues, close loopholes and not lower the rates. entitlement reform and revenue raising in place of the sequester. is that what you're hearing? do you think that's all possible? >> i've always been a big supporter of the bowls simpson. it has stayed bipartisan. we haven't had any leadership really on the democrat or republican leadership taking hold of this as their own and making it happen. it's a shame they won't do it. mike and i get along. we're great friends. we have cert

he and jill smoke lee -- joe smoke lee, the late joe moakley, had been strong supporters of our work in el salvador. i knew him personally as a congressperson and whenever we were having trouble, they were always there. you know. i have a great affection for him. >> back in 1997 when the announcement came out, were you anticipating it? >> we knew we were front runners. >> how did you know? >> we knew we'd been nominated. mcgovern wasn't the only one, there was a woman from sweden who i think at the time was the head of their foreign relations committee, she had nominated us. then i heard later that others had as well. and when we were in norway negotiating the treaty, which was in september of 1997 was the last phase of the negotiation of the mine ban treaty, journalists started coming up to us and saying how do you feel abouting if being a frontrunner and our response was, we're not here to discuss the peace prize. >> we've got a picture we'll put on the screen, where is that picture? you can see it back there. >> that's my house in vermont. that's the morning that we received the c

the hall of fame award to several well known people, including former 49ers quarterback, joe montana. amber lee us now in sacramento with the quality all the inductees share. >> reporter: we're in front of the california museum. behind the glass doors you can see that people are just wrapping up this party right now. i had a chance to speak with the celebrities, and a well known labor activist who are honored tonight. nfl hall of famer, joe montana is now also an inductee into the california hall of fame. >> it's kind of overwhelming when you look at the co- inductees. i'm not sure how i got into this group. >> reporter: montana was received by a warm crowd. he signed autographs for young, excited fans, and older ones. >> signed the back and the front. there you go. >> reporter: many in the crowd were there to see the football star. >> that's all, i'm out of here. >> reporter: i asked montana what he thought was 49ers recent accomplishments. >> they seem to have it happening on both sides of the ball. all the time. >> reporter: there were seven inductees tonight, including actor warren beatie.

the hall of fame award to several well known people, including former 49ers quarterback, joe montana. amber lee us now in sacramento with the quality all the inductees share. >> reporter: we're in front of the california museum. behind the glass doors you can see that people are just wrapping up this party right now. i had a chance to speak with the celebrities, and a well known labor activist who are honored tonight. nfl hall of famer, joe montana is now also an inductee into the california hall of fame. >> it's kind of overwhelming when you look at the co- inductees. i'm not sure how i got into this group. >> reporter: montana was received by a warm crowd. he signed autographs for young, excited fans, and older ones. >> signed the back and the front. there you go. >> reporter: many in the crowd were there to see the football star. >> that's all, i'm out of here. >> reporter: i asked montana what he thought was 49ers recent accomplishments. >> they seem to have it happening on both sides of the ball. all the time. >> reporter: there were seven inductees tonight, including actor warren beatie.

staffing this year's chinese festival will be held on february 23rd and 24th, including joe chan and danny low and maria lee, from the plan review services. and tony who is supervising the fifth floor and then quan from building inspection. special thanks for commissioner mar who will be volunteering at the volunteer, it is not a kissing booth. >> congratulations to the story was actually about the planning hiring and staff to catch up on the growing project's backlog but the examiner knows that this handsome inspector when they see him, the image from the story published two years ago and got the front page cover and well done, even though you work for dbi thanks for calvan e and vanbon. >> for the enforcement efforts on 308 turk street this is getting a lot of headline, it is a multiunit where the owner has a long neglected building, and supervisor kim issued a press release applauding the effort to bring this building into code compliance and urging the city attorney to litigate this especially egregious case, and thanks to everyone involved in that and to the supervisor. special thanks to tom hewy for p

donnelly, enzi, flake, graham, grassley, hatch, heightcamp, who'ven, inhofe, ice okayson, joe hance, johnson, king, lee, manchin, mccain, risch, roberts, rubio, shelby, wicker. and we have three late responses of no from landreau, murkowski and murray. those are the 35 senators so far who have told us, no, they oppose senator feinstein's proposed bill to ban assault weapons. 28 senators said yes, they agree with and support it. 34, no responses so far. and three said they had no position. we're going to chase the 34 no responses, and the three who say no position. and we'll come back on friday, give them enough time to think about their response so quick get a very firm idea of why this assault weapons ban has apparently got no chance of getting passed in the senate. you as the american people have a right to know what these senators believe, and i intend to get it out of them. let's turn now to the police chiefs. i can't think of five better people to talk to about what happened. ever since just over three months ago now. let me start with you if i may, chief. because you had the -- i don't even think

. >>> several blocks away san francisco mayor ed lee showed up today to enjoy a cup of joe as a new coffee shop opened its doors in the tenderloin. today was the ribbon cutting for phil's coffee at golden gate and larkin. mayor lee says it reflecting the neighborhood's revitalization effort. the mayor also says there's $500,000 in grant money available for improvements to store fronts and nonprofits in the tenderloin. >>> an overnight fire that destroyed 20 units was apparently cooking related. no one was hurt but a pregnant woman was taken to the hospital as a precaution. firefighters say two units in the fourplex were moderately damaged. >>> a major change involving fire retardants in furniture may be coming to california. after decades environmentalists feel they are about to win the fight. >> reporter: one mattress treated with flame retardant the other is not. the chemicals have been used in california since the 1970s. firefighters are among those who want the chemicals stopped. tony stefani says he was diagnosed with cancer. using not a flame but smoldering fire. >> what the upshot o

. >>> several blocks away san francisco mayor ed lee showed up today to enjoy a cup of joe as a new coffee shop opened its doors in the tenderloin. today was the ribbon cutting for phil's coffee at golden gate and larkin. mayor lee says it reflecting the neighborhood's revitalization effort. the mayor also says there's $500,000 in grant money available for improvements to store fronts and nonprofits in the tenderloin. >>> an overnight fire that destroyed 20 units was apparently cooking related. no one was hurt but a pregnant woman was taken to the hospital as a precaution. firefighters say two units in the fourplex were moderately damaged. >>> a major change involving fire retardants in furniture may be coming to california. after decades environmentalists feel they are about to win the fight. >> reporter: one mattress treated with flame retardant the other is not. the chemicals have been used in california since the 1970s. firefighters are among those who want the chemicals stopped. tony stefani says he was diagnosed with cancer. using not a flame but smoldering fire. >> what the upshot o

joe's pub? >> whoa, what is in here. hoda, what are you trying to do to me? it's only 10:04. wow! >> you're drunk. >> is kathie lee in rehab right now? whoa! >> you can explain that one too. so i went to joe's pub last night. >> okay. >> it was a country music night. the cma folks put on a great night. so i went there. these were all the cute country guys. i got to tell you, the lyrics in country music are off the hook. they're terrific. >> it's just rap music for hillbillies. >> what? >> that's what it is. >> listen to the lyrics. you try to match them. ready if your phone's not ringin', it's me. that's a lyric. if your phone's not ringing, it's me. >> it's me. >> okay. >> give me one of yours. >> yeah. >> i mean you said it's like rap music. >> let me see here. bands make her dance. bands make her dance. >> okay. all right. today, folks, is national proposal day. okay, so we just want to point that out. apparently you can hire a proposal planner. because a lot of people go over the top. you've seen all those viral videos where people go crazy and they put all these crazy things up. you've been married for how ma

joe." mark halperin, ed rendell and lee gallagher back with us and joining the table, columnist from "ll beanto be furious. >> he borrowed it from rick santorum. >> saturday's column, his latest piece entitled "saving children from guns." why can't we childproof guns? in a time of deep sensitivity to the welfare of children, why can't we come up with a technology that would keep a gun from going off when it is being held by a child, or for that matter, by a thief, using a stolen gun, or an angry teenager, plotting to use his parents' arsenal to wreak havoc in a mall? it turns out, why is this not a surprise, that such technologies already exist. congress once cared enough about the safety of its citizens to pass laws about air bags and child-proof bottles will soon find out if it still cares enough about the safety of its constituents to make child-proofing guns the law of the land. it should. we were talking earlier, joe nocera on a segment about guns, about the lack of common sense and courage in places like the united states' senate, and certainly the house of representatives. but when it

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asians and blacks mayor lee met with me on a weekly basis so i know he wants to do, i saw first hand up close and personal, something else he does to end the violence. >> thank you, joe. thank you very much, congressman pelosi for being here, and harrison thompson to help me take such swift action to have a national dialogue. congresswoman spear for your personal experience and what you are doing now, we're really grateful. i'm just one of many mayors. i want you to know that being part of the u.s. conference of mayors i had a lot of discussions with other mayors who are faced with tremendous challenges in their cities and if i have learned anything in the last couple years being both interim mayor and the new mayor and many of you know i'm not a lifelong politician, so i learned the politics of this job somewhat on the job. but one of the things i do know at heart is that we all struggle with this and we know it can never be an answer only that the police can solve or law enforcement in general, that we quickly learn that mental health, that preventing ammunition and guns from getting on the street, that education, job training, paying attention to housing, poverty,

lee lecturer was senator joe lieberman. so we have over the years, we think, made a significant and substantial contribution to american policymakers' understanding of the challenges we face in terms of our policies towards asia. this is, in fact, also the 30th anniversary of the founding of the heritage foundation's asia studies center. when dick allen and i started the asian studies center back in 1983, it was our first dedicated foreign policy center at the heritage foundation. back then asian security was all about what's happening here in the cold war. from that perspective study of the soviet union might have made a lot more sense. dick and i as we talked it through talked about the potential that someday it might even be conceivable that u.s. trade with asia would actually even call our trade with -- equal our trade with what was going on across the atlantic. today, as you all know, of course, it's much greater, it's several times greater than our trade across the atlantic. we've been blessed by the insights of many

joe's pub. >> whoa, what is in here. hoda, what are you trying to do to me? it's only 10:04. wow! is kathie lee in rehab right now? these were all the cute country guys. the lyrics in country music are off the hook. >> it's just rap music for hill billies. >> what? >> that's what it is. >> listen to the lyrics. ready if your phone's not ringin', it's me. that's a lyric. if your phone's not ringing, it's me. >> okay. >> give me one of yours. you want it's like rap music. >> let me see here. >> bands make her dance. bands make her dance. >> okay. today, folks is national proposal day. we just want to point that out. apparently you can hire a proposal planner. a lot of people go over the top. you've seen the viral videos where people go crazy. you've been married for how many years? >> 14 years, 24 years together. >> so was your proposal one of those really memorable ones? ♪ marry me >> this is the song i had playing. >> it's a great song by train. c'mon. >> i just looked at my wife and said, baby, it's been ten years. do you want to go to vegas and get married? she said, let's hop on the ride. >> just like that? >>

joe pillsbury grands biscuits. let the making begin. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, livebigger than anything we could have thought of. >> what is it? >> today is finally the day i am getting a dog. seriously i have to say i'm totally busting. this was -- this was one of the decisions that you make in your life that you go -- >> this is huge. >> this is huge. this is huge. the way we did it was every single dog we looked at, you and i together were rescues. came from paws chicago and petfinders. great organizations. they were found nears housing projects, some were abandoned, all ten of these dogs are great, great dogs. look at them. let's just go slow down the line. i cannot even stand what i'm seeing. >> that's kevin, i think. >> come on down the line. >> o. kevin. and then there's -- we're going too fast. >> i can't remember all the names. >> she's got the underbite. >> bobbi sue. >> cinnamon. >> that's my favorite. >> look at snoopy -- >> no, his name is -- >> whatever. >> nutmeg. >> nutmeg. i am picking one of these dogs. oh, that's it? guys, it was so much fun the wh

joe kernen. "squawk on the street" joins us right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good monday morning, good monday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm melissa lee let's see how we'll open for four straight record closes for the dow and it looks like the street may be pointing to a lower open. as for europe, news of the italy downgrade pressuring markets in today's session. we do have a loss in italy of .6% pf data overnight in china also pressuring the global picture, lending and retail all slower than expected and we did have a loss there on the shanghai. our road map this morning starts with the market. the global economy front and center with china and the italy downgrade. the s&p is 1% away from the all-time high. >> cnbc has the copy of the ge letter to shareholders. jeffrey immelt, with less financial exposure and what the company is going to do with all of that cash from the nbc deal. >>> a new development in the icahn-dell story. they have entered a confidentiality agreement. is this a step closer to get the company to do a leveraged recap. >> samsung is number one in china. sales tripled to more than 30 million. lenovo is number two as

joe. thanks, becky. good to be here. >> andrew, we'll see you soon. make sure to join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" is next. >>> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm melissa lee, along with carl quintanilla, jim cramer and david faber live from the new york stock exchange. just 37 points separate us from a record high on the dow jones industrial average. could we hit that today? let's see how we're setting up in the markets this morning. the dow is looking to add right now 55 points, which would put us firmly in record territory. the s&p 500 looking to open higher by eight. take a look at the setup in europe, as euro leaders there start to debate potential caps on bankers' salaries. we're seeing up arrows across the board with italy up by almost 2%. overnight in asia, we did see a rebound in shanghai. the national people's congress gets under way in china, putting out a growth forecast of a whopping 7.5%. >>> we start off with history in the making. the exact number we're watching for, 14,164.53. that was the dow's closing high back on october 9th, 2007. but how much longer do we have to wait for the s&p to get to its record. that's another 40 points away. >>