kerns -- judy kerns. i misheard you when you were giving public comment. >> my given name is patricia l.. -- patricia farrell. i spoke last time, but i wanted to add that now, i am living in the streets, and it is a perfect example of how the city has failed. i have, as i said before, ideas. i'm not going to share them openly, but one is $3.1 million that could be added to the city's budget almost by the swipe of it 10. i have imbedded myself within the system when i returned to san francisco last year, and since that time, i have developed high cholesterol that has went from 20 milligrams up to 80. i take nitroglycerine now for panic attacks. i have been in the hospital several times with those conditions. i have had -- i have two denial of services. i do not know whether to be proud of that or not, but it is kind of alarming, given that i've put in so many volunteer hours doing data entry for their sro system that no one on an upper level really came to my defense when i was being attacked by the differ

judy kerns, seat 2. megan rohrer for seat 3. maxine pauson for seat 4. commissioner elsbernd: -- why don't we continue seat three? commissioner farrell: no objections. >> there was not an applicant for seat one. if you give me time, i will try to do more recruitments. chairperson kim: thank you so much for being here today. >> one of the things i apologize that we did not point out -- to be respectful of mr. picorillo's comments, your application for the board of supervisors requires you to be a u.s. citizen. we have done hours and hours of work. some people will not fill out the application because of their citizenship status. that has been one of the biggest problems in doing recruitment for that position. chairperson kim: is that a requirement? if someone wanted to leave that blank, can we still consider that? >> i would have to check into the requirement for this particular committee. chairperson kim: i completely understand those concerns. we will check into that issue as well. we have a motion to move forward seats two, four, five, and six, with po

there are some intel sites, and i think you talked about kern straighstreet. there are currently some empty lots in the village that could be looked at. i think it has to have the same basic zoning, as we currently have, in terms of height, also in terms of density. this is basically a single- family neighborhood. there are some multiples, but largely single-family. i think we have to continue that type of thing, particularly, with the available sites we have. so i would tend to be against an indeterminate density, but rather have a density that determines exactly how many residents you are going to have in a particular site, or as we have had in the past, if it is an rc, rh-1, not just putting as much into the zoning as you can. >> you can see on this zoning map we have here, that potential infill site on kern -- it is the yellow space, zoned rh-2. the proposal is keeping the proposal along bronson ave. the only change would be for those parcels facing diamond straighstreet. for any potential infill, it would be a combination of rh and nct. just to make that

with the invocations, we would like to invite pastor stacey kerns. >> good amp. let us pause for a moment to invite the presence of god. shall we pray together? god, our help in ages past, our hope in years to come, we invite your holy presence to bless this celebration of african-american history month. we give up thanks and praise for the legacy, the creativity, the genius and contributions of african-american people everywhere. we pray that you would strengthen this organization and strengthen all organizations that support telling the story of black history. and so today we ask that as we continue on the journey. that we might be able to do justice, love kindness, and walk hummably -- humbly with our god. may you bless this time together and all god's children say amen, amen, amen. >> and now if you would stand for "lift every voice and sing," sung by leah suites. >> ok. everyone can join in with me. ♪ lift every voice and sing ♪ tell up in heaven rings ♪ rings with a harmony of liberty ♪ ♪ let our rejoicing rise high as the listening sky ♪ ♪ let every sound

discovery of oil and its role in developing the golden state at black gold, the oil experience, at the kern county museum. that's your pacific event of the day. lynn? >> thanks. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. today lindsay lohan heads back to court in her felony grand theft case. according to one report, she's not dealing. quoting a source close to lohan, the associated press reports the actress will not accept any plea deal that includes guaranteed jail time. tmz reports that presiding judge will give her a continuance at today's hearing to give her more time to think about accepting a plea deal. the same website reports tomorrow will be mel gibson's day in court for plea bargaining. he will reportedly plead no contest to a sim. battery charge stemming from an argument from his former lover last year. in doing so, gibson would avoid jail time and a prolonged court battle. >>> and finally, it's big change from tina fey. hbo announced it was cast the recently oscar nominated actress julie ann moore to play sarah palin in "game change," an account of the 2

. >> they go through about 50,000 pods of kern county potatoes a day at california chips, but each one is needed because it takes about 100 pounds of potatoes to make just 25 pounf potato chips. that's no smallotatoes. for "california country", i'm tracy sellers. so now thawe've learned about a couple of varieties of potatoes, the next question is what do we do with them? here's the chef with a couple of ideas for you. >> hi. i'm richard sluzarz, chef here at the grand hyatt san francisco. and one of the-- what we're gonna talk about today,r what we're gonna prepare today is mashed potatoes. and why--why we're gonna do mashed potatoes, it's something that is a very simple thing, but i know there's some times some people have some issues with mashed potatoes and, you know,why did mine tu out lumpy?" "why did they turn o--maybe not so, uh creamy?" and so en youake mashed potatoes--and we start re with russet potatoes. so we peel our russet tatoes, d then we dice them, and then we put them in a pot. and we start with cold water. and you always--when you're making mashed potatoes, you shou

i'm not the only one kerned -- concerned by the consequences of this reckless budget. 300 leading economists have signed a letter to the president noting how these spending cuts will diminish our economic competitiveness. depoldman sachs reported that the republican budget will slash economic growth by 2% of economic -- of our economic growth. that would spend send the unemployment numbers back over 10%. americans want us to craft a budget for the remainder of the year that creates jobs, reduces the deaf constituent, and strengthens the economy. do we start with slashing special interests and waste like the $40 billion that we are providing in subsidies to the oil companies the last time any of us looked, they were doing pretty well. they don't need any subsidies. or do we cut the things that help the middle class, which help our businesses and working families with children and with seniors? this resolution increases unemployment, it will hurt our economic recovery and i urge my colleagues to oppose this reckless resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: t

. >> i just checked in with caltrans and closure is from the los angeles kern county line together so -- south to bakersfield. if you are driving to los angeles, you may want to wait until the end of the day when they decide to open it or you may just want to try 101. speaking of longer, it's a longer-than-usual commute this morning trying to get into san francisco. this is because of earlier problems on the bridge. we also had our very own rita williams who said traffic on peninsula is not that good because it's raining and alternating with sun. it's kind of tough driving on the peninsula. this next picture is interstate 880 where traffic is okay. >>> and into east bay, we've had some rety busy traffic from 580 coming across livermore and getting into castro valley. getting to the south bay, the freeways are getting a -- are getting busier. 7:38. let's go to rosemary. >>> good morning to you. starting out in san jose where we can see the sunshine fiing to get through those clouds. partly to outside our door and the sunshine -- in addition to a few lingering hours -- showers we may se

coverage on this is a reflection that the philanthropic nation, you see different organizations like run kerns's impact on this? are you especially conscious of that? people have more interest in the price of a liter of petrol than many other things. >> that will get the headline that the budget got the next day. we spent quite a lot of time working on the package. it has been many months and i think it will have a big impact. not just the changes for it the biggest givers and the richest where we made the change to the inheritance. to charity you get a cut in your inheritance tax bill. that does not benefit children will lead to charities and there are some losers. also i think the biggest change will be the bucket collections in the streets for local charity will be taken and that will be a huge boost i hope to much smaller charities and smaller donations. what i want to do is establish not just me but -- i have an interest in that and others things. we want to establish a new norm where people give more of their income to charity particularly the wealthy but much lower income and these tax ra

rick kerns, flooding is all a possibility be careful.m and the pacific tracking our way bringing cold there, moisture. the dumping adonis' we will feel at all day on friday. fairly heavy rain to fall primarily amount noon. then we get a slight break saturday but sunday we ramp up with another system just as powerful. very wet few days. now, here is a look at the traffic. >> george: as we continue to track a hot spot is a rough ride for walnut creek, pleasant hill, concord. 242 is backed up traffic on the 680 south bend all because of recurring problems westbound on highway 24. it is our hot spot this morning. it will be awhile before it improves. interstate 80 is not doing too bad. a little sluggish but still a good read to the short freeway a bridge right, now back up, no delay, an easy trip. bay area bargain honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord?! we switched to at&t high speed internet and got wireless access. no more cords.

i'm not the only one kerned -- concerned by the consequences of this reckless budget. 300 leading economists have signed a letter to the president noting how these spending cuts will diminish our economic competitiveness. depoldman sachs reported that the republican budget will slash economic growth by 2% of economic -- of our economic growth. that would spend send the unemployment numbers back over 10%. americans want us to craft a budget for the remainder of the year that creates jobs, reduces the deaf constituent, and strengthens the economy. do we start with slashing special interests and waste like the $40 billion that we are providing in subsidies to the oil companies the last time any of us looked, they were doing pretty well. they don't need any subsidies. or do we cut the things that help the middle class, which help our businesses and working families with children and with seniors? this resolution increases unemployment, it will hurt our economic recovery and i urge my colleagues to oppose this reckless resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: t

with the invocations, we would like to invite pastor stacey kerns. >> good amp. let us pause for a moment to invite the presence of god. shall we pray together? god, our help in ages past, our hope in years to come, we invite your holy presence to bless this celebration of african-american history month. we give up thanks and praise for the legacy, the creativity, the genius and contributions of african-american people everywhe.