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 sports, local diversity communities, local political issues in election campaigns of odds making are more the exception of the rule. the staff report does recognize problems in local news and information than the lack of accountability you much to its credit this underscores points i've been making for years. instead of calling for stepped-up commission, direct commission action, but too often tinkers around the edges. for example, urging philanthropy is to find better ways to do their business, asking congress to change tax code and suggesting the government to act more advertising to local media. and rather stunningly, i thought the staff report recommended shutting down a penny and localism proceeding. i participated in dozens of hearings in hundreds of meetings on the stockade. i have traveled to hearings and town hall meetings across the country to learn directly from tens of thousands of citizens what they think about their local and national media. they listen to folks fire tonight in session that sometimes lasted as long as nine hours. we have had notices of inquiry notic

this year, 62% going to local artists. tell me how the arts commission -- was happening before and why after some public pressure to we see more contracts being awarded to local artists? >> with all due respect, it has not been a response to political pressure. this program has hovered at about 75% bay area artists being commissioned by the arts commission over 30 years. the process the arts commission uses -- supervisor chiu: you said 75% over the past 30 years? >> that is what staff has informed me over the long term. the bay area artists, which include san francisco, was hovering at about 75%. supervisor chiu: why has that dropped significantly in the last decade? >> it has not dropped in the last decade. the years you are planning to, want to show you what we use in selecting artists. it's a very competitive process and is driven by a community- based feedback. whenever projects we undertake always includes a component of community feedback and planned participation. supervisor chiu: can you explain that? i hear the ex

control and local oversight. we are not saying opt out, we are not saying leave the gttf relationship, we're saying there needs to be a transition. you're currently under an m.o.u., there's a model the federal government has endorsed, transition to it by passing a resolution and it's easy to do. let me go through the elements here that the portland resolution addresses. d it maintains local control over the assignment of officers and provides all these elements of civilian oversight, every single one with of these things has an analogous provision in 8.10. the federal government says you can do it as long as you're not doing it under an m.o.u. and these involved security -- voven involve security clearances, allows for annual public reports, it allows for training and it makes sure that nothing can change. no more secret m.o.u.'s being signed but changes only take place after public notice, public hearings and discussion like this. so the question is, if the federal government and the u.s. attorney for oregon say

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

i am excited about the track record of the puc on hiring locally in san francisco. for this project alone, we have 60.5% of the residents who are around the area working on this project. we have 6.5% -- it is 27.5%, sorry, much better. 27.5% of the workers are local residents. that is above what our current mandate is for the local hire ordinance that we passed last year at the board of supervisors. i wanted to congratulate you on that effort. 54.5% are from the bay area. 60.5% of the workers are apprenticeships workers, new workers, who are getting new jobs into this industry. the project helps to make that happen. congratulations on that. we are hiring carpenters, cement workers, and landscape professionals. we know we are providing employment opportunities for this project. i look at this as providing so many benefits to san francisco. we're providing reliable water. we are making our water system safe. we are also improving the process for many san francisco workers and businesses. those workers will go and spend money for their basic needs in san francisco. con

, local sports, local diversity communities, local political issues in election campaigns of odds making more the exception of the rule. the staff report does recognize problems in local news and information than the lack of accountability you much to its credit this underscores points i've been making for years. instead of calling for stepped-up commission, direct commission action, but too often tinkers around the edges. for example, urging philanthropy is to find better ways to do their business, asking congress to change tax code and suggesting the government to act more advertising to local media. and rather stunningly, i thought the staff report recommended shutting down a penny and localism proceeding. i participated in dozens of hearings in hundreds of meetings on the stockade. i have traveled to hearings and town hall meetings across the country to learn directly from tens of thousands of citizens what they think about their local and national media. they listen to folks fire tonight in session that sometimes lasted as long as nine hours. we have had notices of inquiry notice of

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

>> i think the decision to rebuild is a local decision. some of the leaders from all law enforcement and first responder community are here at the lecture this evening. and i thank them for that. but i am very confident, whatever decision made, that the people of new york and new york city are very well protected. it is a very impressive operation there. >> i am part from "time magazine." and other incidents that the dhs is unambiguously collecting private information, which is at borders, with a searching for a digital devices. dhs asserts the power to do that, without suspicion or explanation. i understand that you keep those images and you have not said whether you have destroyed any of the data or if you share it. can you explain that policy and why that is not a dichotomy between security and liberty? >> longstanding law has been the powers of the government at the borders in determining what and who comes in are different than once you get into the country. the standard of proof, for example, for collecting evidence is lower at the b

, local sports, local diversity communities, local political issues in election campaigns of odds making are more the exception of the rule. the staff report does recognize problems in local news and information than the lack of accountability you much to its credit this underscores points i've been making for years. instead of calling for stepped-up commission, direct commission action, but too often tinkers around the edges. for example, urging philanthropy is to find better ways to do their business, asking congress to change tax code and suggesting the government to act more advertising to local media. and rather stunningly, i thought the staff report recommended shutting down a penny and localism proceeding. i participated in dozens of hearings in hundreds of meetings on the stockade. i have traveled to hearings and town hall meetings across the country to learn directly from tens of thousands of citizens what they think about their local and national media. they listen to folks fire tonight in session that sometimes lasted as long as nine hours. we have had notices of inquiry notic

just released a report today saying the local news agencies are not doing their job in holding local governments and schools accountable despite the uptick an online news the report concludes there's a lack of local investigative reporting and this is causing a ray of problems including scandals not exposed government waste not discovered health dangers not identified in time and local elections involving candidates about whom we know little if the seaward recommends that local media outlets create c.-span like broadcasts to inform their communities curiously in the same week this report was released the f.c.c. gave in to republicans in the house and completely pledged to take the fairness doctrine off its books the fairness doctrine required media outlets that call themselves news to devote a sliver of every hour to actually covering straight news reagan stop enforcing the fairness doctrine nine hundred eighty seven which is a large part of why we now have infotainment instead of news so if the f.c.c. is really looking for someone to blame for a rock a real news america maybe they s

this creates incentives to shop locally and support local businesses. these two gentlemen along with other folks have created an innovative program that gives back to the community through the debit card which is being launched today. this is report points to individuals that shop in the neighborhood. they can be redeemed at local businesses or it can actually be given as charitable contributions to local non- profit organizations. it is for that reason that today i am proud to honor the work they have done. the work fosters' pride in the community and deepens the relationship between residences and their local businesses. this is a certificate of honor for launching a cutting edge project that supports local businesses and community-based organizations and builds meaningful partnerships. we're educating residents about the importance of shopping locally and by foster in a deep sense of pride in our neighborhood and for leading change by example. congratulations on launching bernal bucks. this can serve as a model for other neighborhoods on how to creat

has right now a localism proceeding that has considered ways to encourage patients to serve their local communities better and this report actually suggest terminating that proceeding and not concluding that we think that's outrageous the record is there you know obviously it is a little bit out of date now perhaps but it could be refreshed as a person it was started by a republican chairman of the f.c.c. . michael powell under george bush and this report is suggesting that that report not be concluded but the proceeding just they basically shuddered and at the f.e.c. not proceed to adopt any sort of recommendations in regard to how to make stations more responsive to their local communities to what extent is that the. problem is probably the wrong word but a lack of better one is that the problem versus the telecommunications act of ninety six versus reagan's decision in one thousand nine hundred two to stop and force in the sherman act which led to the war mergers and acquisition mania which spilled over into the media right i mean they're all related the problem with the antitrust la

there are a lot of different bludgeons and missed around this area in the past locals try to avoid going to the city of dallas but they say anyone who dares to get in will never get out alive find out how russia close up with death to bring you this report from the mystical heart the country's deep south. a number of u.s. congressman her save the letter apparently written by colonel gadhafi saying he's ready to negotiate a cease fire and asking for humanitarian aid the authenticity of the letter has not been confirmed nader was continuing to step up its airstrikes on the capital tripoli that's despite despite a fresh lawsuit by colonel gadhafi daughter and the french president she's suing because sarkozy and nato for killing four members of her family during an airstrike in april meanwhile the turkish prime minister has offered colonel good to. exit guarantees to wherever he chooses that's our mark almond an oxford university says the libyan leader's position is not as weak as the west is making out. is obviously under pressure he is also living former nato but it also seemed that in the

we have a commitment to working locally with a local artists. we only higher san francisco and community-based artists. we focus on children and families. we focus on economic development. i am really speechless and thrilled at the opportunities in front of us to continue our work with the bayview opera house and to continue our work with the local school and to develop relationships with the local business community. i would be delighted to show you what we've done thus far in a deal and other communities. i really, in response to the comment this gentleman just made and also the work that juliette has been doing, we really will be looking forward to hearing from the community. how can we make a long-term plan for turning the area into a cultural district for the community and for the city and for the world? thank you. i am thrilled. president vietor: thank you. other public comments on this item? >> commissioners, i filled out my pcard just so i am on record for following the process. let me share with you, commissioners, a few thoughts. we ar

>> the memorandum of understanding with san may take no county regarding local hiring for construction contracts. item eight, approving a tolling agreement with san mateo county. supervisor mar: thank you. we have a member of the office of oewd. >> i am from the office of economic and workforce development. thank you for the opportunity to be here today. our office is pleased that after about two months of conversations with our colleagues in san mateo county, that we have been able to enter into a reciprocity agreement for our local mandatory hiring program. the mou that is before you pour consideration is essentially expands the definition of -- that is before you act essentially expands the definition of projects to include residents of san mateo county, as well as san francisco residents, for that work. our current program for projects only in san mateo county, a contractor would be able to poll workers from either san francisco or san mateo county to meet the mandatory requirement. that is is essentially the mou. the tolling agreement was a request that the san mateo county had. o

i want to give an extra shot out to the chair of our public employees union from local 21. i am surprised his marriage is still together, the amount of hours he has spent on this. i want to knowledge everyone surrounding us today. some of the other people working. i know tommy o'connor from the firefighters. the police representatives. along with the board of supervisors. there was a lot of number crunching to people were fully prepared when the move to the table. this is historic. i am really proud of both the public sector and the private sector that we can craft this kind of resolution. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: i also said the transparency was well beyond the labor unions as well, as well as our city workers. so, i know this transparency was reflected in the san francisco chamber of commerce and their ongoing participation. they listened very quickly to our efforts. >> thank you, mayor lee. the chamber of commerce and the entire business community of san francisco want to thank you for your leadership, and supervisor tells burns -- supervisor tells burns -- super

and then the number one to the 2010-2012 teamsters local unit. item number 24 amendment no. 1 to the 20102012 transport union workers of america local 200. item number 21 to adopt the first amendment to the 2010-2012 ford of transport -- the non mass transit authority -- an item number 22, adopting the amendment no. 1 to the 2010-2012 for the transport workers union of america, local 228. adopting an and the no. 5 to the 2006-2012 unit 8 -- and adopting an and the no. 5 to the 2006-2012 for unit 1188, 324. no. 25, for a minute -- 24 -- >> this is item two-five, 7-24. we will turn this over. >> good morning. does so from the department of human resources. these are all the amendments with the alternative health savings agreement, to the provision that we had negotiated in the spring of 2010. when we bargained with the various groups at the public employee labor council, we agreed that we would seek certain health care savings starting in fiscal year 2012. we have the city only paying up to the second-highest for the employee only coverage, and the

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 ve 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 protestor and whatever happens-- and we do

, then the homeless, then the local correctional facility come in the local airport and other local government entities which lengthened the overall process, the board was that everybody coming simultaneously. we will review the process. we will drive a decision that balances all and we will try to reach something that is optimal that protects the taxpayer but protects the local community. >> thank you. mr. sullivan, is it true communities have a property owned by the va in west l.a. which is worth about $4 billion the bill prevented you from disposing the property? [inaudible] >> yes, sir. we have a large medical center in west los angeles that has ignored -- significant dating back to the 1960s and '70s the. >> and that he is determined the property is underutilized, is that right? >> we have not had any authority to determine or to speak prior to the land-use restrictions did they make that determination? >> i'd have to look pretty goes back to the 1960s. >> if they weren't in place, with the da said that, would it be reconsidered to the process we're talking about? >> i think at this point

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

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local sports, local diversity communities, local political issues in election campaigns of odds makingore the exception of the rule. the staff report does recognize problems in local news and information than the lack of accountability you much to its credit this underscores poin i've been making for years. instead of calling for stepped-up commission, direct commission action, but too often tinkers around the edges. for example, urging philanthropy is to find better ways to do their business, asking congress to change tax code and suggesting the government to act more advertising to local media. and rather stunningly, i thought the staff report recommended shutting down a penny and localism proceeding. i participated in dozens of hearings in hundreds of meetings on the stockade. i have traveled to hearings and town hall meetings across the country to learn directly from tens of thousands of citizens what they think about their local and national media. they listen to folks fire tonight in session that sometimes lasted as long as nine hours. have had notices of inquiry notice of propos

big government and economic consolidation runs entirely contrary to the swiss idea of independence local government and you trial ety blogger manfred petritsch has run a successful campaigns about effect playing on the reported ten million euro taxpayer bill for securing the spanish build about except that a private meeting because that's what they call themselves a private. security. by the taxpayer and i think a lot of people understand that especially when the government. i don't have money for this. and here we go and it costs a lot of money to secure this private meeting of these people the agenda is secret along with everything else but bill the burgers are believed to be deciding on who should replace their friend t.s.k. at the top of the i.m.f. also concentrating on how to save the euro which was leaked agendas show their brainchild we don't want to be we don't want to. but these are all the things that actually create is a construct of. europe is a construct of. this waste building is different spanish one securities much lower key first start and there's no kilometer wide cordo

government over the city or village without any accountability to local reporters. in any way this seems like this is disaster capitalism on steroids. you know use an opportunity to to privatized things to sell things off to do away with the mocker see is there what is the legal basis of your lawsuit is there other than the you know it seems that what you just described is a is a general perspective is there a specific law that they are violating or are you calling on the court to say that this is a violation of the spirit of the constitution or the spirit of a small democracy right that's a good question because it's so untested in our country right we all assume we have a right to a local democratic form of government so where is it actually written. we have a brilliant. former we should supreme court justice and sort of the oliver wendell holmes mistake in beauty hundreds who's written on it beautifully it's not thomas cool who said. there's an absolute right to instigate here right of the people to have a democratic form of local government and to a lack of loca

it is our local businesses. i saw a headline in usa today last week that 300,000 jobs that were created last month were created by small businesses. i know that's the city always pays homage to small business, but you are just talking the talk and not walking the walk. 10 or 15 companies like mine, in a general contractor, another of our members has 70 staff, and the only auto parts store in the city. we have a grocery that has 70 employees. we each pay about $40,000 a year and then there will taxes. we will be gone. this will be a city full of computer geeks. it is not a question. it is advice to stop giving tax breaks to those companies. supervisor cohen: all right. thank you. [applause] your turn. >> hi, my english is not very good. >> i will be interpreting for mr. lum. [speaking foreign language] >> breathing is for everybody -- greetings to everybody. [laughter] >> [speaking foreign language] >> we think the new mayort newhank the new mayor -- thank the new mayor for giving us this opportunity. and we want

s but locals say they're leaving behind. surely you need party to flush the land up north of here if they're rounded by mountains and hills and while driving along this no one can certainly run into a church or a small mob blundering into the theory father gouda gay who loved his thick real life to live hand says that this monastery behind situated in russia connects the past and the present the church was only build some six years ago but it stands me in time where the dates back to the sixteenth century actually worked during the epiphany celebrations a return thousand people come here for local christians this place is unique maybe because of its location nobody knows after spending several hours hand it really feels like this mountainous area marries the past with the present and if you listen hard enough you can only handle a few father suppose such singing their songs by the fire there are gaps in the republic of north the south has also kept the memories of the times when this place was famous for the construction of

thank you for the out. >> we will go into what local hiring needs. i apologize we were not able to go into that, but we will get into that in our next meeting. >> i will move its emotion. >> any other questions? >> is there any other public comment on this item and? if not, all in favor? >> aye. >> the item is approved. >> alleged -- item 11, new business. >> there is plenty. do you have any more? >> my sounding like a broken record? >> many new business? >> any public comments? >> is there any public comment? >> you warned her. she left early. >> at this time, i will move for an adjournment. we will out for a moment of silence and to adjourn the meeting in honor of local firefighters. >> second to the motion. >> all those in favor, please say aye. >> aye. >> the meeting is adjourned at 4:28. >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection b

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

now joined by a local resident. thank you very much for joining us so is that he now tell us why do locals still consider this place as a special area well the place is really spectacular and nearby this beautiful landscape here is the city of the dead people still value people still respected. many tombs in those tombs people buried the hold to invasions of one family and every family had each own up to and what kind of interesting objects were found that you know all three were found at the cemetery well i think the most name for same thing here is just so-called boats because in many cases the remains of dead people were found in wooden blocks even in the biggest reverse it's impossible to sail here so why people buried in that boats it's no easy you know nobody knows it's a secret where everybody still all right thank you very much that was that of a local resident meanwhile our team continues to bring you the latest picture of lloyd down here in russia's north caucasus in the republic of north and south. will s