very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on a positive no. with that, i want to start off on a positive note tonight. i worked with very. we were on staff

local people, local impact, local benefits. that's the spirit of this legislation. it's wonderful to see and it gives me great hope for what we can do for this city if we put our hearts and minds together. under mayor lee's administration, too senile me kelly pulling together our city departments, the office of labor standards enforcement, the puc, the mta, to work closely with contractors, to work with the city build group -- that's the kind of work we need to see the real implementation of a local higher. i'm very hopeful. i feel very confident we will have very meaningful experiences for all the parties involved, from the workers looking for work to the contractors will be building, to the city departments to make sure we have the best services that we can have in san francisco. i'm so gratified and exciting we are doing this right. i look forward to all the folks continuing to work on this effort in the years to come. thank you very much. [applause] >> next, i would like to introduce supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. good afternoon. i will be brie

at the local level. some startups such as the "bases and close " in san francisco, "texas tribune" out in texas -- there have been others that attended some similar things -- are starting to use a digital- only medium to provide a layer of local coverage. after that, the other positive things that i see our outfits like -- are outfits like patch and yahoo!, which is looking to create semi-pro or citizen journalism to take place, a new layer, stuff that was not covered at all before. observational community-oriented journalism. things that might have been restricted to an e-mail newsletter or in the distant past, some kind of mimeograph letter. those are positive changes to journalism, and they are happening at the local level. >> speaking of local, how many here have heard up hatch -- heard of patch.com? interesting. i love my local pact, not because they are here, but i follow it. it tells me what is going on in the schools, and it tells me what is going on down the street. but not many people know abou

a kind of obligation on local hire or not. >> to be clearer, a local hire in the city will further improvements being made by the developer as they are not direct between the city and the contractor. if we hire a contractor to build a new road, in this case the developer is actually fronting the funds and may not be reimbursed completely. may not be reimbursed for 30 years after they make those improvements. in the agreements, a local hire would not apply. supervisor chu: i do not know where this is not considered public works. you would get a policy goal, but take the shipyard. those were implying treasure island? >> we had not formulated by our jobs at the program. supervisor chu: it would be good to know if there was a comparison between training and local hiring policies. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: still on the thread of the position of hiring local hiring, the construction side of the project will do its best to hone in on the practice of local hiring towards the goals we have laid out legislatively. as suggested, redevelopment is not within the transition, it w

work and reviving our local economy. as some of you may recall, last september, we announced the city would have its own modified version of the federal jobsnow program. because congress failed to act, the city partnered with local businesses to keep san franciscans working, and we call it jobsnow2. as a result, we have partnered with over 100 businesses and employed over 500 local residents, with 70 of them working in the private sector. today, we are here to announce we still have a lot of financial opportunities for private citizens to participate in the jobsnow2 program and we will continue to help put san franciscans back to work. we would like to increase and focus this jobsnow2 program on local small businesses. local businesses are missing a great opportunity to use this resource to their advantage. this increase of subsidy we are seeing today could help small and medium-sized businesses expand and reduce overhead. jobsnow2 will reimburse employers for the first $5,000 of wages paid to an employee hired from the

homeless coordinating board holds at their local meetings. as a staff person, i look forward to working with all three people is their appointments will forward. supervisor kim: thank you. actually, while you're here, could you address what the prior public speaker talked about in terms of access to meetings? >> yes, all of our meetings are held in public buildings. our monthly meeting is held at 170 otis st., and i assume that the speaker is referring to one sunshine organs violation that was dealt with. supervisor kim: what do you mean? >> we were found -- i think against us, that one meeting was held at 77 otis st., which is the front entrance for the in- home support services, and there is a guard at the door, and mr. pitts was not let in the door right away. he was, though, in attendance at the meeting, and i have documentation to prove that, but the meeting interest is the violation. supervisor kim: since then, you have done what to repair the situation? >> we no longer hold meetings there. that is a new development. we have not had a m

those are positive changes to journalism, and they are happening at the local level. >> speaking of local, how many here have heard up hatch -- heard of patch.com? interesting. i love my local pact, not because they are here, but i follow it. it tells me what is going on in the schools, and it tells me what is going on down the street. but not many people know about it. i'm wondering why you think that is, or are you targeting certain communities that are covered by patch? >> and can you describe it for those of us that are not familiar with it? >> it is a hub for news and information for local communities, simply put. it goes beyond this, and we can get into that, but that is something it leads with. we hire full-time professional journalist who lives and works locally in that community that it is serving. so it is a uniform platform so the technology is shared, so we can flip the switch, but the editor is really the key to making that all work. for us, for each of those, although it is part of a bigger brand and effort, what matters is how many people within that community know about it

one question is on local hiring. i thought that there was an answer that the project would abide by the local hiring policies in the city. and joshua mentioned it is not in the d.a. but where is that language built in and how are we assuring we are abiding by the local hiring policies in the city? >> maybe i wasn't clear at the last hearing but there is a job program in commitments attached to the d.d.a. we are happy to sit down and walk through what the commitments are in that document. but it basically shows vertical and horizontal development within the project commits to a goal of 50% local hiring through the tidi job local program. local hire will only apply to city sponsored projects so we have projects that we are actually constructing. for the horizontal development where the developer is fronting the money and entering into contracts, tidi will come along to buy that back and our jobs program applies. local hire does not apply to that. we are not considering that a possible works. that is infrastructure bein

your local tourist action is being served by organizations. as a result, your police department is more accountable to the federal government than to the community it is supposed to serve. the agreement also has an oversight body for the preservation of community policing. it makes any human rights complaints almost useless. they would have to go to the fbi. over the past 10 years, many arab-americans have been subject to intense and unwarranted scrutiny -- scrutiny by such organizations, like the fbi and others. it has not only been the fbi. people have been alienated from civic participation. [tone] sfpd should recall what john crew mentioned, the expos pay. >> your time is up. sorry. >> yesterday we shredded the bill of rights. today by being part of the jttf, is treading it's part of the bill of rights. i call on your good conscience for you to urge the board of supervisors -- >> sir? thank you. next speaker, please. >> the evening. i am the student national vice president for the guild and the national lawyers guild here in san francisco.

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if what we are saying is they can do their jobs under local powers, under local standards, if what we're saying is they can and we want them and they can be effective, as we all want them to protect us from terrorism, by exercising san francisco powers, they don't need the deput ization. they said it is a huge win for combating terror giving the portland officers the same security clearance, the same level, the same access to information they need to do their job to keep us safe. the technical difference is they would not be deputized. i do not believe what you would be giving up, unless there are things going on that nobody knows about that they are not supposed to be doing. i am not suggesting that is the case. it seems it is the perfect win- win. the way to exercise it is notify them your during the transition period you have 60 days to talk about it and fix it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> man, president? -- may i, president? >> thank you, commission president. i think i owe it to the community to first make a comment to say that it was public hysteria that caused all these jttf an

with relatively no local control. the other way is via a resolution which was just approved by federal government in portland. which allows participation in the joint terrorism task force but provides much better protection for civil rights and gives the sfpd and the police commission more control of the relationship. this doesn't require opting out of the gttf or ending the relationship at all. i wanted to talk more about why we're so concerned. the f.b.i. has called their partnership with local agencies a perfect marriage. that may be the case from their perspective, but one of the partners in this marriage has changed a lot. as a result the terms of this partnership need to be redefined and understood. and here's why. a decade after 9/11 the f.b.i. calls it self a transformed agency. they have highly expanded intelligence powers under the federal guidelines, i'll go into this more later, but f.b.i. agents are allowed to conduct intelligence on individuals and organizations without a factual connection to criminal a

guidelines concerning local hiring. also, there's been discussion and concern for daily wages and whether it's private or whether it's union, there has to be -- there must be prevailing wages that are paid to the employees. what needs to be done, what we don't have, is to make sure that we have certified compliance officers to make sure that the work that should be done in this city is done because heads have been turned the other way and people are frightened that they're going to be losing. and you, like someone stated a few minutes ago, whatever your decision is, you are ultimately responsible to number one, when you agree to something, although it goes down to a contractor, to a prime and to the subs. you are number one. that also, when persons want to make complaints, they can file a complaint against you, the city, as well. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> yes, i'm from bright line defense. good evening. and i wanted to just highlight that we did learn at the board of supervisors that when the financing mecha

militia with their own local interests? >> bergen: yeah. i guess being a follower of bin laden maybe makes you a bigger guy and identifies you with a larger global movement. yeah, bin laden is admired by a lot of jihadis because he stuck it to the west. we've had multiple accounts of people who've joined jihadists groups, and, you know, they talk about their love for bin laden. you know, often when they make suicide videotapes before they go to what they think is their, you know, 72 virgins, they will mention that their hero was osama bin laden. >> smith: and now we have a series of popular uprisings throughout the middle east. what does it mean for al qaeda, these... this arab spring? >> bergen: i mean, i think it's about the worst news they've ever had. i mean, here is... their stated goal has always been the overthrow of these authoritarian regimes in the middle east, yet none of their people are involved in these movements, or very few. none of their ideas are being invoked by the protestors. and whatever happens-- and

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>>> and a local teenager faces the judges on "the voice." we'll tell you if she made it. >>> you're looking at a live picture of the bay bridge. it's 4:41. >>> 4:43 right now. an ugly fight this morning between two well-known animal shelters over heart-breaking ads asking for your money. the spca is accusing the larger national aspca based out of new york of misleading donors. cheryl hurd has the story rosto >> reporter: you have to read between the lines. >> hi. will you be an angel for a helpless animal? >> reporter: the commercials are gut-wre gut-wrenching and for the dunn family the pictures made them rush to their checkbook. in fact they have a dog they rescued four years ago. >> just by doing lemonade stands over the summers, we've probably donated two or three times by writing checks and sending them to the new york office of the aspca. >> reporter: thinking that money would make its way to their local spca. but the spca claims the majority of donations sent to new york do not make it back to the bay area. >> when i told the kids, th