and then lastly, at st. louis, a similar type of improvement. an upgrade of the park, which is a temporary park that has been established, upgraded lighting and fencing. potential lighting on portions of several streets run around st. luke's, and pedestrian safety and streetscape improvements around several of the streets right around st. luke's. getting to the health services system, there has been concern raised about premiums from the city. these may be going up due to the cost of the public benefits package been requested by the city. we are aware of this concern and are currently discussing with cpmc ways to assure that this does not occur. and then lastly, just our next steps procedurally, once we reach a full agreement on the development agreement with cpmc, a draft development agreement will be circulated to the public for a period of a couple of weeks, and then there is the process of the planning commission, the certification of the eir and roger approval at the planning commission and the hearings for possible action at the land use c

lastly, i want to say, and i know that the three of you agree, we all want jobs and we all want better jobs, we are really proud of san francisco and we call them our san francisco values. all the pieces of legislation we have passed, the small businesses and many of our associations have been against many of our initiatives for it they have had time, they have argued, and we have prevailed. we urge you to get rid of this bureaucratic piece of legislation and let the process continue. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am here with power of people to organize employment rights. as you already heard, we agree that this piece of legislation is incredibly divisive, unnecessary, and on balance. to look forward and try to predict with a piece of legislation whether or not it will impact a job loss is incredibly subjective. with everything we have fought for, from the minimum wage increase to the wage theft legislation, the claim is always that there is a fear that there is going to create job loss. it has not played out in reality. when we are looking at the kind of repressive legis

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then lastly, i'd like to mention what berkeley has done which i think has been remarkable was that the people in the city council had the wisdom to say to people when a home changes hands or building changes hand, part of the real estate transfer tax can be used to strengthen your building. to use that money that can be available for people to be able to use the money to make the retrofits to tie the building down, to put it in the sheer walls. to do the things that are really required. and as a convery against, they tell me that over 6 -- and as a consequence, they tell me that over 60% have been retrofitted for emergencies and hopefully when the big one comes we'll be in a situation where we'll see that our buildings do survive if they're strengthened enough to survive. i was amazed when i had a beautiful home in the south part of berkeley. it's on the flats. we had our home earthquake safe in the early 1970's and i talked to this guy and he was saying, you know, a lot of homes are earthquake safe but they really didn't do a very good job. they did it but they thought they were bolti

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lastly, we monitor the project and how they are implemented. we will be coming to you a few times in the next few months to talk about items related to the implementation program, starting with the impact fees. in february, we will talk about the eastern neighborhoods monitoring report as well as the final report for the even trips project. there will be more opportunities to talk about this topic. today's topic is the annual report of the interagency plan implementation committee. before she begins, i want to provide some context for that work. over the past five years or so, the city has adopted a number of significant new bread plants. other plans are going through various stages of the process. together, these plans represent about a quarter of the city's land we are changing the zoning regulations and providing area plan envisions for. they plan for an addition of 25,000 housing units. this accounts for roughly half the expected growth we have, so it is a significant amount of growth. along with the new growth, we recognize an essential ne

lastly, the idea of sitting, people can set all the time? supervisor wiener: yes, on the ground, on the benches, and on the cheers during the day. >> it insults the legacy of harvey milk. he was against stit-lie in the 1970's. >> i'm jackie henson, a dyke that lives in the neighborhood. i really don't have that much access to my community. it did not feel that way at 50, but as it got older, it got more difficult. i can't be all around smoke, i have physical limitations that caused me personally. it makes my personal life smaller and smaller. we have done a survey with over 1000 people at the trans march and at the plaza. 80 percent of those people were bothered by second-hand smoke as well as being aware of the fact that second-hand smoke is harmful. the gay community, they wanted to free them to breathe air without the second-hand smoke from cigarettes in cigars. thank you. >> supervisors, we do not need ordinances like this that will not

lastly, we are really blessed that so many of the angel investors an early stage vc's in the market are seeing this as an important place where they want to invest. that is why we have run conaway in the room, tim o'reilly, and many others that realize not only is it important for our country to encourage civic start-ups in order to bring our garment along, but it is also going to be a great business opportunity, place to invest their money. we are excited to have this accelerator and are proud to be part ring with san francisco to bring it to life, to have them teach ideas to launch the doors and have a healthy dialogue around the civic space. with that, i am turning it over to ron. thank you for your support. >> hello, i am ron conaway. i am not sure jennifer

lastly, supervisor campos and i have two committees today at the same time, so at 2:00, supervisor campos and i have to go to our other committee. we will be doing at the bit of musical chairs in about 30 minutes, just to let you know, but we are all very interested in this topic and look forward to being here for the time we are allowed. supervisor elsbernd: thank you, we will start with anne executive director of aging and adult services, followed by the executive director of open house, and then we will proceed from there. >> first of all, but you for inviting me to the hearing, thank you for having the hearing. different hearings, either through our commission or other places, various topics, but we have yet to have this kind of conversation on lgbt seniors. thank you very much. there are three things that really impact how we age. there are genes, which we cannot a

and lastly, the white house actually took time out to deny allegations that as a teenager president obama was tele ported to mars. they announced that former president andrew jackson wooki and will burn a giant pile of money in the rose garden. >> as always, thanks for dressing up. let's welcome our guest. i am here with fox news network reporter sandra smith. her new book "don't even look at me you ugly pig" comes out next week. i think it is aimed at me. chris barron, his abs have abs. bill schulz, pardon the interest ropings and sitting next to me a first-time guest, bernard. and he is a pain in the neck who spouts nothing but dreck. good to see you. >> the presidential race moves on from iowa, and considering the surprising numbers, you might say rick santorum was mitt romney's caucus blocker if you will. >> nobody would say that. >> everybody would say that. >> after months of listening to candidates, voters have weighed in of the amazingly, many think romney's first name is mittens. it is true. according to a 60 minutes van gnaw knee poll 60% think mitt stands for mittens and his gi

>> lastly, adjournment for which we need a motion. >> move to adjourn. pesident mazzucco: thank you very much, everybody. >> this concludes business at 8:00 the seven. -- 8:07. >> we believe we can bring innovation to government, entrepreneurs, developers, with the government to make a difference. i would like to introduce mayor ed lee of san francisco to kick us off. >> thank you, good morning. happy new year i want to start out by saying the new year brings us -- while we still hear bad news from the federal and state economy, i have always believed

lastly, of great importance was the saint lawrence river. the great river of canada. beginning with its source in the great lakes and of course, it's course downstream moving northeasterly all the way to the atlantic. quebec being the main french fortress and most powerful single point in canada. it was to be very significant in the conflict. let's take a look at a modern map and get a sense of this geography. today, beyond skudiscussing the military history, i'd like to give you a sense of the human dimensions of this conflict and the various people and interests involved. the struggle, the sufferings which were great. the hardships, not least of the acadia, the french colonyist of acadia who were largely exported. we'll also talk about a battle that occurred in the lake champlain corridor, actually, on the shore s of lake george and triggered a famous episode that's featured in the movie, "the last of the mohicans". we'll talk about the turning point in the war. the french and their native allies were doing well. in 1757, when william pit rise to power as the first

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 referred to you for enforcement by the sunshine ordinance task force. that is an area where i think you have an unfortunate record. a case that i brought against the public library in 2004 is one of the first that was referred to you and the group that a lawsuit brought. the issue there was the library refusal to provide workers' compensation records, even redacted, to prevent any kind

>> lastly, adjournment for which we need a motion. >> move to adjourn. pesident mazzucco: thank you very much, everybody. >> this concludes business at 8:00 the seven. -- 8:07.

>> lastly, adjournment for which we need a motion. >> move to adjourn. pesident mazzucco: thank you very much, everybody. >> this concludes business at 8:00 the seven. -- 8:07. >> good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee. i am supervisor chu. i am joined by supervisor avalos and supervisor kim. we have bill and nona from sfgtv. and our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements? >> please turn off cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, fill out a speaker card and turn the money and if you have documents, provide -- provide a copy to the court. items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on january 24, 2012 unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. would you call one through seven? >> item number one, appropriating $192 million of 2012a earthquake, safety, a general obligation bond proceeds to the department of public works in fiscal year 2011-2012 for necessary paris and seismic improvement in order to better prepare for san francisco for a major earthquake or natural disaste

they are separated into types of reports ended states, and lastly, on the back, permit conditions you should consider. they are suggestions from staff. they run the gamut, and they are ways you might change and add to this permit in such a way we might be able to help with the problems we have been seeing. is there anything particular on the page you might want to talk about? >> the commissioners will see three citations issued. you also see two dates when recess was brought before the commission during meetings. one is tonight, also last month. this commission has heard many times in the past but the days of getting calls like this, throwing them at you without intelligently reading those reports, what we did is we broke them up. goofor passing call, those incle the three days and only those in where there are notes dealing with crowd control issues. go these three were the only three that were included, because there are notes about perhaps violent behavior. an intoxicated person was seen by an officer is leaving the venue. goothese three are the dates gog back to the vineyard -- th

lastly, the locally formed committee that is locally formed with san francisco citizens, who are leading the way, and are a key pillar of the agreement, relating to fund-raising to defer a portion of the public costs. they are also going to help to convene not much of our stability. we are very grateful for that presentation. however, raise management being intricately involved in the planning is part of a better partner as well. >> next slide, please. >> we issue our environmental impact report on july 11 of last year. august 5 was the freezing of the public comment period. we had a thorough and exhaustive effort to respond to those comments. the planning commission heard the item and certify that it is clean and the appeal has now been calendar for the full board of supervisors next tuesday, january 24. i hope we will come back to the mta board of directors to adopt ceqa findings and take appropriate findings -- action. at the bottom of the slide we referenced the process under nepa. that includes the regulation for the coast guard to manage traffic along the bay as well as these permi

. >> lastly, philip hildebrand admitted to making some moral mistakes but refused to step down, sayinge had not broken any laws. the swiss national bank says it will hire an outside firm to check whether its managers engaged in insider trading. >> german exports have defied forecasts by rebounding in november from a sharp decline the previous month. government data shows exports rose 2.5% from october, providing a well-timed show of strength in europe's biggest economy. german of forms wreck the before and receipts of some 95 billion euros with well over half of all exports going to other eu countries. imports were also of year-on- year, but not enough to stop germany's trade surplus from growing to an impressive 15 billion a year rose in november. on to the market's, european shares fell slightly on monday, trimming by blue chips over the past three weeks. stefan wolff sentenced this summer from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> the betetter than it expected export data has not been able to give a boost to german shares after industry production has been reported, an investor protectio

lastly, this is something that cannot and our discussion of the plan that the council. i think it is an important way to think about this. if we are setting priorities for the agency in deciding that these things are priorities, we should ask ourselves and honestly answer, what are we doing now that we aren't going to be doing any more? a priority is a decision to do on one thing as opposed to a number of other things we can do. what is not the priority? i think we are a little bit short on having an answer to that. that is the strategic plan. i wanted to touch base on muni's anniversary. the summer of 2012 as the one hundredth anniversary of this pretty amazing transportation agency. we recommend the agency holding streetcar festivals, one in the spring and summer and one between thanksgiving and new year's because the actual anniversary take place between things giving it new years but we understand a lot of people are not in town. in the spring are summer, we maximize the chance of tourists to participate in the festival. yet to solicit sponsorships from businesses t

lastly, i wanted to thank the port's executive director for her vision, her understanding and appreciation of the port's role in the fabric of the city. she get a firm hand on the wheel even in stormy weather and with your vote today, we will bring this project in safely. with that, i'm going to introduce diane, who is going to talk about ceqa. after diane, kim will talk about how the construction is going to take place and when. >> good morning. i am with the waterfront planning unit within the planning and development division. i do not have any slides, unfortunately, but i do have to provide for you just a brief presentation on the environmental impacts report that was certified last night by the planning commission. on that basis, we have prepared in your pack it findings about the information in the ceqa documents. the purpose for you, as the decision makers for this project, is to summarize the information in the eir that is relevant to the project before you for approval. to identify what that project is, what its impact are on the environment, the mitigation measures that are requi

>> lastly, adjournment for which we need a motion. >> move to adjourn. pesident mazzucco: thank you very much, everybody. >> this concludes business at 8:00 the seven. -- 8:07. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their t

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lastly, we have hired some additional project management assistance staff. that has been helping us speed up the development of the citywide program. this is our current schedule for the neighborhood parks program, showing that most of our projects will be delivered or in construction in the coming year. it is our hope that will position us well to seek another ballot in november 2012 and hopefully obtain another 150 million with some capital funds to invest and fuin the parks sy. with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> do we have any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment -- we do. so sorry. >> thank you for your work on this, mr. ginsburg and all the commission. ♪ fix all up the city trees have a happy holiday later will have some park and pie and will do some caroling you'll get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing let's be jolly and the good ralph, rec and park fashion way park today ♪ [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: entertain a mo

the early morning hours or overnight hours should let somebody know what time to expect them and, lastly you see something, say something. he says it makes police work much easier if they get there earlier. worst case scenario, they find out there is nothing to report. best case, they may help solve a crime much quicker. >>> the backers hope to collect the 800,000 petitions signatures needed to put on the california ballot. they say that the sexual slavery and ex-employedation is a growing problem here. >> the dirty little secret is that there is a thriving business of pimps and gangs and mafias of every imaginable group that are in the business of trafficking young girls and young boys. >> reporter: today's petition drive kickoff was timed to coincide with national human trafficking awareness day. >>> san francisco's new sheriff could face domestic violence charges within the next few days. today's chronicle reports prosecutors will likely file misdemeanor charges against sheriff rossmer karini. sources say there is enough evidence to charge him for an alleged incident during new year's

lastly getting into europe and here the alpine region has been dealing with quite a bit of snow since the weekend. plenty of heavy snows impacting the area. let's get a look at the situation. we have some video coming in first from austrua. two to three meters piling up. residents trying to dig out from this heavy snowfall. a lot of road closures as well as flight cancellations. in neighboring switzerland, heavy snowfall has forced some ski slopes to close, just too much snow in the area. even for skiing. so, very serious event going on here. plenty of snowfall. right now we're still looking at a little bit more moisture in the area, but that is going to be heading out. you can see a little bit more moisture in the next 24 hours but it really starts breaking up and hopefully we'll see more drier conditions for all the pine region as well. for the scandinavia region, norway more moisture coming in along the coastline and similar windy and wet for scotland, especially this northwestern section, ireland too looking on the unsettled side. highs on tuesday, looking at a double digits for l

we head into europe now lastly. the major story here is another atlantic storm system. they just keep coming, what can i say. wet and windy. when i say windy, gusts 80 kilometers an hour in scotland with this system. wind warnings for parts of ireland, denmark, northern germany. it will be wet and wild across the british isles, through france, extending to poland and scandinavia as well. into the central mediterranean, a system is going to reboot. it is easing off into the balkans. minus 2 in moscow. 8 in berlin. 9 in vienna. 12 in london, 13 in paris. not too cold here, but it will be raining most of the week. here is your extended forecast. thanchts wraps it up for this edition of "newsline." join us at the top of the next join us at the top of the next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

lastly, my office is located adjacent to the planning area and i am familiar with the multi-modal accessontinuing improvement in the planning area that is sustainable, cohesive, and provide a long-term positive impact. supervisor kim: thank you. questions? supervisor wiener: you're a renter, correct? >> yes, i am a renter. supervisor kim: next, marius starkey and karen knowles-p earce. ." >> mr. starkey had to leave, so he provided me with his comments that i would like to read into the record. to whom it may concern. serving the past few years has provided me with a certain civic pride and the like to continue my work. i live within visual sight and it would be my pleasure to see projects become reality. as an individual living in the mlp area for the last 20 years, i have firsthand experience in recognizing the importance of improving our neighborhoods with respect to pedestrian and bicycle safety. the improvement of area parks and the regulation of traffic flow regarding parking issues. the current members have developed an environment that works effectively with various neighborhood

lastly, i would like to appeal to the members from the mayor's office to please consider the poor people in our community, and one, i know his heart is for the community. millionaires, their executives, but the poor people of our community will still be poor. we serve the port. thank you. -- poor. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is matt. sitting here, listening to those outlining regarding the construction project, there are a lot of things that jump out as being a little bit disturbing. the fact that they want to downsize the hospital that is exceeding its charity care requirements, while expanding hospitals that are not, it does not seem to be a very good maneuver for a non-profit. it actually seems to be a maneuver of a for-profit industry, especially considering that they make over $1 billion. i also want to say that your assumption that medi-cal, requiring people to buy health care, that is a very weak assumption, that people are going to go out and actually buy health care. there is a lot wrong with this whole deal. i think it would be wise