people tend to be local. you have your main group of people, and they are often san francisco residence. our concern is once they do that, they are having to compete to bring in local businesses. it will probably be a lot less attractive to a potential san francisco resident, because of the packages that will likely be offered to a larger company. based on those concerns, they have proposed several solutions. the first thing we have proposed is the implementation. they do not want an exemption that provides a leg up on a feeding. they agree local businesses have every of legislation, but we are not too sure what the impact this would have on local businesses and concerns. what is being proposed is to give us some time to evaluate what impact this will have on local businesses. if we find out they are using this as an unfair advantage, then you take it away. if we find they can negate the impact on local businesses, they can give it some time to figure it out. i do not think we have a clear indication of what

because there is a regional regulation that says that all our local authorities need to have a local mobility plan. i heard this morning about a problem like neighbors complaining when things have to be changed and the whole debate that is coming up then. but i think we have it similar because it's our local mayors who sometimes are hesitating to put into practice -- that's one of the reasons why those cycling routes sometimes get stuck, because you have a regional cycling route, but local authorities, we have 19 in brussels, local authorities do have to give permits for that. there is a lot of criticism on that and i heard my dutch colleague say one hour ago, you can get stuck because at local levels people don't like it, although your regional plan is to be so good. that's true. on the other hand, i think that it's a good democratic process to really to go at the low-cal level and convince people why it's good to have those new infrastructureses. this is one of the typical, in old belgium towns you would find it now, it's the flow of cycling. it's what you do if you have a one-way

local music must be heard. according to the note -- the sf gov website, we have to work for our citizens. kusf has been here for over 30 years. they promote diversity and respect the exchange of ideas. be mindful of our past experience with the boom and bust industries, such as gold, shipping, and dot com start-ups, i urge you to not have this be part of history. many got their starts by playing in local clubs in san francisco. without them broadcasting, many broadcasts will go unannounced and unknown. a whole generation of emerging artists risks slipping into obscurity. we have been working with you, the board of supervisors, the entertainment commission, the california music and culture association, and many other groups. to revitalize entertainment in our city. we worry about our youth finding safe and healthy outlets for their energy, and yet we do this to one of the few outlets left to them. local music must be heard. the deeper impact of these event is to extend the reach of corporate radio from the south

getting to the local and i think as an advocate for the local renewable generation efficiency, job components that that brings, the ability of further environmental justice through this program, i think that's something we have to hear as a clear milestone in this program and i think it's not enough just to say let's go on the market and procure. i think we need to hear that commitment that we're going to commit to the 2007 ordinance that we all still support. i want to also mention with respect you heard from al winerub of the local clean energy alliance. he and the alliance just published a report that i think is essential to making the case why we need to commit to the buildout component of community choice. it's called community power decentralized renewable energy in california. we may even if we're lucky have a couple copies for some of the members because it shows why it's so important to commit to that buildout. so as it goes forward, i'm deferring i think to some of the process and commitment we're hearing commitment to not only move forward with the program but i hope there's some o

they feature all locally sustainably sourced foods. either active displays that make it easy for many visitors from run the world, but especially bay area people to know what should be recycled, what should be composted or sent to a landfill, and they have also successfully used recycled materials throughout the renovation of the concession stand. i was delighted to see the menus as well in the food stand. very healthy, and an effort to reduce drilled food, candy, and sodas, and to have instead fresh sandwiches made with local ingredients by local san francisco businesses as well. has been a long process to get to this point, and i am appreciative of the advocates on both sides of the issue have expressed strong opinions to improve stow lake and to preserve it as well. i know that the budget analyst will be presenting very soon and speak to some criticisms of the process, which i share as well, and i want to say that while i think we need to invest in cattle improvements and make the facility better, i do share some of the concerns of

local businesses, some seem to be able to get the upper hand here. you could use a lot of imagination. i am sure they would love the opportunity to expand. many home grown businesses can go in there. as i have said, they have been around for 35 years. i want the supervisors and the commissioners to think again what this is you are going to put in there and explore other options. there is a committee put together. i feel like we have been disrespected and businesses who are across the street, down the street, will also be affected. please, please, reconsider and also reconsider the lack of middle income housing. we are losing the middle income community. all these things should be considered. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am a member of -- and i'm also on the board of the delores' neighborhood. this is directly across the street from this building so personally, i will be affected as much as anyone that has been in this room because i live across the street and i have to park my car in this area. so, this is going to change my life, b

the local health teams with the officers. what will the government newer that we will deliver on this sfroj >> i'm delighted that his constituency is taking part in this pathfinder project. those people who say that somehow nhs reform is being introduced in one big start are completely wrong. there's 25% of gp's are going forward to make this work. there's huge enthusiasm amongst gp's to get this moving and i think it will show real benefit in terms of patient choice. and what i would say to everyone in this house, the idea that there is somehow a choice of a simple life where you just don't reform the nhs, when you have rising drug bills, rising treatment bills and frankly a record in this country where we are not ahead in europe on cancer outcomes and all stroke outcomes and heart outcomes is not a sensible option. it's right to make this coalition and it is digging an unacceptable status quo. >> the prime minister -- the prime minister will be aware of the changes to the rescue and coast guard and a protector of the propos

we support local business whenever we can, as well as letting our local visitors that are component an important know about these local businesses. we also support the environment in this cafe, with a further matter of diverting trash from the landfill we had to figure out how to compost in a county that does not support compos. we have done so in supporting local businesses. we are good for families as well. we have menus that list what they can purchase for under $5. we want to support the families that,. we have initiatives to monitor sounds that come from our cafe to really show how much we care about the environment. as a lifelong visitor to golden gate park, i am excited about this opportunity. supervisor chu: we have one comment from the sponsor. >> i was very impressed with the food that mirror would. someone mentioned that those prices were high in their estimate. i know that she said he tried to pay the staff a decent living wage. talk about your pricing. i did eat the food. educating us as we were eating. >> that is who we are as a retailer as well. the prices might be hired

chairperson nolan: there is a report on local hiring, right? >> part of the presentation -- of was planning on giving the board our latest check-in on the local hiring legislation. i believe you are all aware you received packages on our communication with those, that we are putting legislation together and stating what our agency position was with the local hiring ordinance says it was moving at that time. we fully supported opportunities for the hiring local and small businesses. however, we conditioned our support with the federal and state laws that we are bound by with the founding partners we have. since then, we have gotten the draft legislation and had a chance to take a look at it, and were extremely pleased to see that we were heard, our voices were heard. they put language in the legislation that allows us to seek alternative procedures and processes to, in effect, attempt the same thing -- to provide as much opportunity as is feasible within the guidelines of the federal and state programs for local and small businesses. bottom-line

the reality is that local governments are major, major players in their local economies. the investments they make in people in the terms of jobs are huge. there the fourth largest employer in the united states having gone the investments they make in neighborhoods in the terms of infrastructure, housing, everything is important to the local economy. there is a real economic impact when state and local governments face the realities that they are facing. they're trying to balance their budget in the times when revenues are going down and there is not a lot happening in terms of a a door revenue in these regards. -- in terms of age or revenue. there will be an economic impact locally and there needs to be set helping direct the federal government level or in terms of what local voters and people are willing to pay for in order to help make some investments to make this country be competitive. host: federal government help? is that getting in a play? guest: they have been good listeners to local governments, people in congress and in the white house. they are facing their o

there would use local suppliers. the capital improvements -- it is important to note that we are not approving any capital improvement plan right now. there are no design documents in front of you. those designs and capital improvement plans will be subject to future commission approval, as well as the approval of all relevant city entities, including potentially the planning department and historic preservation commission. we have consistently been cleared as to whether or not the stow lake boathouse is a landmark or not. we intend to treat it as a historic resources. exterior elements of the building, the shutters, the distinctive paint patterns, the doors and windows will all be retained. there will be no alteration to the building footprint. the ortega lease reflects that department priority. they would create an indoor seating area, featuring photographs of stow lake boathouse and furniture of reclaimed materials. there be seating for 30 or 32 people. they would upgrade the existing kitchen so you could prepare

there are good things in their, locally. -- in there, locally. how do we get the connected nature of what was done by editors, but no longer? we need to reach out and find things in each of these areas. really, it could easily be editing or any number of other words. what would we do with a silo of brickner growers? -- brick throwers? >> thank you. >> the answer is not aggregation, it is still journalism. you cited an example mice -- yourself, the global post. market watchers also operates under that philosophy. we are trying to think on a daily basis what we can give that gives a global overview of what is in the markets, diving down deeper for the people that want to get deeper into it. yes, the proliferation of the hyper local media does present challenges. the idea that we could just aggregate something to give a global overview is difficult to imagine without editors. there will always be a journalist in any form. they have the expertise you are talking about, taking a look at a story, picking out seven that need to be put on the front page.

that the localism bill does address this issue. and as well as doing that, i think it is important that where local communities are affected by things like onshore wind they need to make sure they will benefit from those developments and the localism bill brings a whole new approach which i think is much better settle this very difficult debate than what has been done up to now. >> today there's an order before parliament to describe the tppp, the pakistan taliban. just one week into his predecessor's term in office as predecessor, the prime minister demanded to know why he had not prescribed it. just eight months into his term in office, committee explain to the house why he's not fulfilled his manifesto commitment? >> you could put it another way, why did the last government have 13 years, 13 years and the pakistani taliban were never banned? it's taken us eight months to do what you failed to do in 12 years. >> order. statement, mr. norman baker. >> here on c-span2, we'll leave the british house of commons now as they move on to

>> almost every city has a local airport. we do not.our airport is really far away, in the countryside. what will happen when the world discovers us? >> a new airport is not a top priority. for the time being, the city planners are busy enough replacing all the street signs. >>> as juliet said, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. at least it sounds the same. that is it for today. join us for another "european journal" next week. until then, good bye from brussels. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--g

incorporating local requirements in the project agreements and local hiring policy with city support and redevelopment agency is not currently covered in the legislation we have passed. i believe it is time we have a healthy conversation about ways we can continue to answer these questions. next i am submitting an ordinance that allows voters to offer alternatives pamphlets similar to the laws we just passed on allowing the government to save trees, papers, money, and not inundating the public with so much information. so goes the question about the voter information pamphlets. the board has been criticized in the past for some of our ideas. i am introducing ideas that will save us money while modernizing how we deliver material to voters. this will allow local governments to develop procedures to allow voters to receive voter information pamphlets by e-mail instead of five snail mail. voters will receive election -- instead of by snail mail. voters will receive election material by mail. in november's most recent election, san franciscans and $436,000 on printing and mailing voter i

can my right honorable friend assure me that the localism bill will restore planning power to local peopleorby and east northamptonshire? >> i can give my honorable friend that assurance. the failure of top-down housing targets was that they not only created huge unease around the country but did not result in the building of very many houses, as house building fell to such a low level. our more local version will make sure that where councils go ahead and build houses, they will benefit from doing so. >> while we all welcome the comparative calm during the referendum in southern sudan, does the right honorable gentleman accept that hundreds of thousands of southerners are seeking to move back home from the north? will he ensure that they have the maximum protection as well as the maximum of humanitarian aid? >> i think the right honorable gentleman is quite right to highlight what a relative success the process has been so far, given some of the warnings made about the dangers of the referendum and the process being followed. part of the reason for that-i pay tribute to previous governmen

i know your background with labor alliances and local hiring and so many issues that bring community within the different bodies that you work in, so i think you are perfectly poised to join the puc at this critical time as they move forward. an environmental justice issues, as well as bringing together various labor and union and community-based groups together to fight for better public utilities for the whole city, so i'm looking forward to being supportive of your appointment today and not continuing this item, but i will listen to the comments first. supervisor campos: why don't we now open to public comment? thank you, mr. courtney. >> supervisors, happy new year. i'm the director of the san francisco labor council. i'm encouraged by your comments, but i'm still going to work off the agenda as i saw it when i walked in this morning. i want to be clear -- vince courtney is a great leader in our trade union movement. he is well versed in a lot of the different functions of san francisco and the puc. it is obviously one of the most important commissions in all of san francisco. mr

communities to reagan we had a lot of strong partners -- to local communities. we have a lot of strong partners supporting us -- the san francisco chamber of commerce, the sentences office of small businesses, -- the san francisco office of small businesses, who tirelessly connected businesses from the neighborhood to the program, small businesses california and a lot of neighborhood merchants associations. the benefit for san francisco small benefits and -- during the course of the program we had swelled hundred 54 small businesses applied to be part -- we had 1254 small businesses applied to the program. it is a pretty significant number based on a city this size and a number of businesses. the benefits to san francisco job seekers in -- 4207 individuals were employed under this program. our initial goal in june of 2009 was 1000, and we ended up going for false or over 4000 people got jobs. -- we ended up going to over 4000 people in jobs. the average earnings for $19.49 and the hour, close to $20 an hour, so it was a good-paying job, and 45 of those individua

my best tip-- find yourself a local festival. here's where the villages focus on their special history or product. it's our chance to tune into their pride of tradition. each festival is unique, and visitors are very welcome. chateau reynard in provence parties once a year in honor of its dairy industry. across the alps, the tiny village of chiesa also honors the cows but with a more rustic style. we got cows, we got porcini, we got wine, we got warm milk, we've got local cheese, we got the accordionlayer- i call this a feival. g toge teaoing back to the middle ag,ties. ou 1e byntofanto usu pio 3 ve oa n nd rte pce inke ane geway.oing back to the middle ag,ties. we're riding the rails south for a short trip to delft. clmefrom the sea. flat, flat, flat. it's said that napoleon called the region the most beautiful he'd ever seen. delft is about an hour south of amsterdam. and it's so carefully preservedn since 1246, that it looks like a medieval stage backdrop. canals, of course, and narrow alleyways and bridges. there's been royal

in addition, he's struck up relationships with local chefs like tim kilcoyne at the sidecar restaurant in downtown ventura, offering them an outlet to get produce they may not find elsewhere, and offering them advice from a chef's viewpoint. >> something like this? is this what we're looking for? ok, cool. i love to speak to him about, like, what would you like to see next season? and so we can start talking about how we can plan his menu basically from the seed catalog, and, you know, have it to where the diners can understand that, you know, your dinner didn't just take an hour to prepare; it took 110 days. because that's how long ago we thought about what you'd be eating, what you might like to eat. and these are some of the tomatoes that are getting ready, but we can pull these today. this is the male flower, and this is the female flower. >> how can you tell? >> 'cause it's got the fruit on it. >> oh, ok. >> and then no fruit here. >> his background, which is also another great thing is that i enjoy, like, working with him, is that he actually has a chef experience background. you

local hiring, community benefits, or simply creating opportunities where they have dried up, that is what the union stands for. that is why members come out so often. on behalf all of us, thank you for having me. supervisor campos: as you indicated, these are unusual circumstances that we find ourselves in. for me the moment that this nomination was made, this was definitely something i would be more than happy and proud to support. there is something unique about the appointment as we are talking about the public utilities commission. many issues are of a time sensitive nature requiring that they could be filled as quickly as possible. for me, because of that there is something unique about this appointment. given the nature of the qualifications of the applicant, the urgency of this position, it is certainly something i am open to moving forward. supervisor mar: i would agree with my colleague as well. given the urgency of the puc's important projects. i know your background with labor alliances and local hiring and so many issues that bring community within the different bodies th

to see me to solve that's really a lot instead of government some local seven fishermen here to have the first. waltz of all business forward to take a closer look at who will be the big winners from the huge share swap deal or. meet in a multi-billion dollar partnership between the russian architects and. you're watching r t two in the morning here in moscow a very warm welcome to you now euro zone finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss further boosting the e.u. bailout which was set up all the last year well the european commission and the european central bank want to deepen the fund saying it's currently too small if a larger eurozone members like spain need help belgium's finance minister did you arrange the emergency pot should be doubled to one. in five trillion euros however germany has so far ruled out any substantial increase reflecting major tensions in the union. member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the bailout won't work because of the scale of debts in the e.u. this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the o

i always call it local global, but it is local calls to roll back our greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. do not worry about that. we have already rolled them back 7% below with our 2008 numbers. those were just unveiled a few months back. it takes a couple of years to analyze the data. first city to put up its greenhouse gas emissions to third-party review, so these are real numbers. why is that important? it has given us a confidence and optimism that we can reach some of our stretch goals, and we are going to create a new goal today. we are in the process of working to convene a task force led by some of the folks you see behind me in front of you that will represent the diversity that was represented in this planning process to put together a new goal, and that is to have 100% of the electricity that is drawn down in san francisco -- not just public, but also private -- 100% of it to be renewable by 2020. it may sound audacious to some and ridiculous to others, but it is absolutely achievable from my perspective. this is exactly how you do it. what we are already doing at hetch hetch