the laguna honda gift fund was reported as well. it is a charitable fund for poor patients that was being plundered for staff parties and perquisites by the laguna honda administration. nine months later, pressure led to an audit which restored three under $50,000 for the patience of a good on that, but again, this complete was ignored by the ethics commission. and lastly, i was driven out after 22 years, and the doctor was laid off. our whistle-blower complaints were dismissed by ethics without a hearing. is this an ethical decision making? thank you very much. >> good evening. i am peter, the executive director of the library users association. first of all, i want to thank the ethics commission for having publicly televised meetings, which will make it much easier for the public to observe what is happening at your meetings compared with audio only. i hope that the ethics commission will continue progress in the direction of open government by improving in a variety of other ways and especially by having public hearings on issues

how about the staff at the laguna honda a chevy program -- hiv program? since 1987, they have been taking care of the sickest and most challenging patients here in san francisco could they're now in the beautiful new laguna honda hospital, brought to you by the city taxpayers of san francisco, and providing state of the art, excellent care. or how about all the volunteers who staff our needle exchange programs on our street corners, ok? [applause] and so many others here today. you know who you are, and you know what you did. because this is world aids day, how about bringing in some of our international unsung heroes? how about all the people living with hiv are around the world who, through their work, are advocates and the backbone of delivering health care to the 33 million people living with hiv? [applause] this 30th anniversary marks years of advances and hard work that all of you here contributed to and often felt like two steps forward, one step backward. today, 20% of people in the u.s. do not know that their h.i.v.- infected. so many people are

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the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. ♪ [applause] >> de want to sit down? that is perfectly all right. -- do you want to sit down? let me called this meeting to order. it is the occasion when the mayor of san francisco is to take the oath of office. i believe this is probably the first major who has had all the other living mayor's as the 16 county of san francisco president for this swearing in. [laughter] but i do not take it personally. i did not even notice it. [laughter] of course, i should identify them quickly. to my left, she will be on later on in the program, but we will start with dianne feinstein, the only woman who was ever held the mayorship of the city of san francisco. united states senator. [applause] start with the man who most recently left this job and went on to become

the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. >> okay welcome to the public of building inspection broke browng session and building san francisco and today we're going to talk about odd or excentric erinteresting building in san francisco and i have with us a structural engineer san francisco pat and who has probably looked inside many of the buildings here and one of the great resources in san francisco and thanks for being with us today. you say unusual buildings and one of the first things that comes to people's mind and that's the one and here's one that is called the octagon house but in fact there is more than one in san francisco, so pat said this is around the horn. >> in pieces. >> i actually have a record says that it was constructed here in 1861 by william mc elroy and moved across the s

the city, replacement of the visit vera street, bush, williams avenue, jones, seventh street, laguna honda, and third street. we also use them to build 200 curb ramps, 60 pedestrian signals, and 90 countdown signals, which is the most popular item we have on the agenda today. all of those items are now open for use. another $160 million awarded to signature products -- projects, which we discussed separately. terms of state funding, the budget crisis in this cycle is only $30 million over the five- year cycle, of which 10.9 or regional improvement fund, 2.2 in enhancements. these are funds that are now threatened by the republican- flavored service transportation act proposal in congress. the regional improvement program funds committed to prop k signature projects for presidio parkway, transbay terminal, caltrain, central subway, funds go to the safety campaign and conversion crosswalk project. there has been quite a bit of progress in terms of the bicycle program coordination with the lifting of the court injunction against the bicycle plan. following this board's policy action, we will

the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. >> good morning. are you awake? [laughter] i like to welcome everyone for coming to market is very important day for the city and its infrastructure. i am from the department of public works. our agency is responsible for the care and maintenance of the city infrastructure within the city right of way. this includes streets, sidewalks, curb ramps, and all of the connectors for residents and visitors. we are also responsible for maintaining and insuring that our roads and right of ways are safe, accessible, and enjoyable for everyone. this all happens with incredible support that we get from our mayor, the board of supervisors, and other agencies. that includes our valued customers and community partners all working together. we have representatives from

the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success. çççç>> want to welcome you . of course, we have former mayor willie brown joining us. we have former supervisor sophie maxwell here as well. we have charlotte, a protocol officer. we have all the members of our board of supervisors, our current board. we have naomi's . harlon, kelly, the kids are here. naomi's mom is here bang today. thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here. [laughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purch

i blew the whistle on laguna honda. a charitable patient gift fund was being used by staff to have parties. we would never have been able to take the paper trail down to find out what was actually going on without the sunshine ordinance. that is why i am here today, to talk about a threat to the sunshine ordinance. last fall, supervisor weiner was found in violation of the sunshine ordinance by the sunshine taskforce. two months later, he requested an audit of the sunshine ordinance by the budget analyst. it took us several information requests to find out who was behind this audit of the sunshine ordinance. e-mails between the budget analysts assured the supervisor that for all communications regarding this analysis we will only state we are conducting an analysis for the board of supervisors. what was harvey rose trying to conceal? what do they have to hide from the public? why wasn't the sunshine taskforce informed? just last month, the gao committee approved a work plan that said "provide policy analysis research re