e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean localrticipation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom

than what most of us have at home, google fiber is an experiment the company wants to expand locally to cities like palo alto, mountain view, san jose and santa clara. >> i stream a lot of movies, and, you know, we kind of -- netflix and things like that. >> reporter: in fact, streaming services like netflix would benefit from goggle fiber, which would instantly compete with cable companies like at&t u-verse and comcast currently selling wi-fi and sometimes getting complaints. >> if you're downloading video and trying to watch something, the fact that it falls off, drops out is really frustrating, and makes the user just sit down, turn the channel and do something else. >> reporter: google says it wants fiber here in the bay area, which is known not only for streaming and surfing, but also for home base businesses. >> now that the average household can get potentially one gig bit service, suddenly, you'll see the startups booming again and that's really hope l for a city like this where invasion is such a key to what it is we do. >> reporter: a fast-moving industry offering super fast internet

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why a local city says they are causing a potentially toxic situation. and too little, too late. the offer froming aon following a plant explosion that has residents fuming. and an outrageous smash and grab burglary rue. you will never guess what these thirsty thieves were after. the news at 11:00 continues you've got to try this sweet & sour chicken helper. i didn't know they made chicken. crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna? can i get another one of those actually? [ superfan ] hey, america, we're here to help. ♪ [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant. some not so giant. when managing your weight, bigger is always better. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant hundreds of squirrels and gophers near the berkeley marina. the quality control board said the rodents are digging dangerous holes in cesar chavez park. when the rainwater goes into the holes it absorbs toxins from the landfills and carries them to the bay. opponents believe the city should consider other options than extermination. the city told us nothing is working. >> they tried to create

why a local city says they are causing a potentially toxic situation. and too little, too late. offer from chevron following a plant explosion that has residents fuming. and an outrageous smash and grab burglary rue. you will never guess what these thirsty thieves were after. the news at 11:00 continues right after this. hundreds of squirrels and gophers near the berkeley marina. the quality control board said the rodents are digging dangerous holes in cesar chavez park. when the rainwater goes into the holes it absorbs toxins from the landfills and carries them to the bay. opponents believe the city should consider other options than extermination. the city told us nothing is working. >> they tried to create raptor perches at one point so they would come and hunt the squirrels. they were not able to attract enough that way. they tried owl boxes, and that also didn't work. the city has been trying different things, but now it has come to this. >> the city will do a test run of the plan on one of the park's 90 acres over the course of three weeks and see how that goes. >>> watch

provide a lot of our public transit hubs in downtown san francisco will be getting power from our local city-owned public utilities commission. it is very excite thattion we're able to work through a deal that is both more affordable and one that is incredibly reliable for this public service site. and i want to ask ms. hail to come up and speak about the details of the project. >> thank you, barbara hale, assistant general manager for power. supervisor kim has hit the highlights. we are very happy to have ~ begun work back in 2008 with the transbay joint powers authority staff on whether we could be a power provider for the facility. in november, the tjpa board did approve their executive director entering into the agreement in december. our commission at the puc approved our general manager moving forward as well. as you know, we operate san francisco's municipal power utility. we're the power provider for this building and many others that the city owns to powering essential city services, powering ten analyst facilities. we provide affordable reliable clean greenhouse gas free power ~ an

often losing in their local cities and towns around them because people don't want more housing.foryou have your workers and others in our society to live that is close to their places of employment? this is a very complex issue. >> it is incredibly complex. i recently interviewed the metro head tom perkins who compared the war on america's one percent to the persecution of jews in nazi germany. this is what he had to say about class warfare. that as a class, we are beginning to engage in class warfare. i think the rich, as a class, are threatened through higher taxes and higher regulation. >> what do you make of his comments e? met mr. perkins and i would not share his point of view. the key is that we all live in this region together. the leadership group's role has been to find the problem and then find workable solutions that serve all of us. i will give you a quick example. 15 years ago, we formed the housing action coalition. not just employers, but the broad base of our community. environment of groups, neighborhoods, faith community members, labor partners, trying to advo

country, which seems to feel a lot closer to western europe, yes, there are a lot of free parts in local cities, where people have stormed government buildings. somehave also stormed buildings at least so the -- definitely,ms in some parts of the country, the unrest has been spreading. we do not have any such reports from eastern ukraine, which seems a lot more recoil -- loyal. >> on the ground in ukraine for bloomberg news, thank you so much for the update. to sure we will come back you throughout the day. a technology center in ukraine, the fastest-growing technology center across europe. protesters have been organizing via social media. the government has been using technology. i want to get to dmitri, general manager at microsoft in the ukraine. a business incubator for early-stage startups. thank you for joining us today. dmitri, can you tell us what safety precautions microsoft is now?g in the country right >> good evening. first of all, i want to thank .ou when we look at the violence police,iggered by the it is important to say a lot of people have been injured and hurt. for our campaig

they supply local cities for them, 80% water comes from the state. this announcement was difficult. >> if they give us a 0 percent aloe indication, we're going to get nothing. >> reporter: with the announcement, the tri-valley zone r7 has a difficult road ahead. >> it's more complicated. we have to control the rate in which we take water out to meet demands of the people and our abilities to row charge it. >> reporter: zone 7 supplies water to communities and now, it will attorney it's back up plan to relie on a series of wells. 60% of the water belongs to zone 7. the question, will it get refilled? >> are you concerned? >> not really. i love to fish. >> storm 7 board declared a drought emergency asking for a conservation of 20% in the tri-valley area. >> san francisco police arrested a man for setting fire to trees near candle stick park this afternoon. nobody was hurt, no significant damage. >>> health officials confirmed deaths of two more people from the flu bringing the number of deaths now to 35. this map shows you the county by county breakdow

they have tried to champion housing developments close to their campuses, often losing in their local cities around them because people didn't want more housing, but then how do you have places for your workers and others in our society to live that is closer to their places of employment. so this is a very complex issue. >> it's incredibly complex. i recently interviewed tom perkins. wall te a letter to the comparing itl come to nazi's and juice. >> i feel that as a class i think we are beginning to engage in class warfare. i think the rich as a class are threatened through higher taxes, higher regulation. >> what do you make of mr. perkin's comments? >> i've never met mr. perkins and i would not share his point of view. the key is that we all live in this region together. and the leadership groups role has always been define the problem and theb find workable solutions that everybody is all of us. i'll give you a quick example. 15 years ago we formed our housing action coalition. not just employers but the broad base of our community to environmental groups, neighbors, faith community memb

field between our local, small, and diverse business he he and larger businesses that are located outside of san francisco. since prop 20, we need to ask are there better ways for our city to award and administer contracts? can we be more fair, more effective and more efficient in providing equal opportunity to all local businesses? so, with that, i want to first acknowledge, i know we have many leaders here representing the diversity of our local contracting community, but i would like to ask the head of our contract monitoring division who has been working on this recently to give a report on where we stand and give us a sense of where things are at this point. so, at this point i'd turn it over to the contract and monitoring division. >> thank you, president chiu. thank you, board of supervisors, members of the committee. my name is nadia cordero and i am the director of the contract monitoring division, i've been on this job about a year now. and i appreciate that [speaker not understood] so, i'm going to go a little faster than most. that is our agenda and we're going to try to give you the mission and history of the contract monitoring division, a 14b overview, ce

>> well, we did turn to the local cities and counties about this, this in d.c., you can repo report them by calling 311 or by completing a form online, and prince george's county's county can contact the department of transportation, and fairfax and loudoun county and residents can call and submit requests on vdot's website is, and we will put all of this information on our with website nbcwashington.com. >>> and a bunch of questions about the olympics, how many new events? >> 12. 12 new winter sports will make the debut in the winter games in sochi, and the events are the snowboard slopestyle shown here, and a figure skating team event which is new, and a luge team relay and women's ski jumping. in all a record 98 events will be part of the 2014 games, and compared to just 16 games at the first winter olympics in 1924. if you have a question that you would like us to consider, for "ask liz" send it to nbcwashington.com, and then search me on twitter by searching liz crenshaw. and coming up at 5:00, will the government reimburse you for damage to the car, and what happen thos the presupe

city. i think that local controls as it relates to jersey city would be a huge benefit. and the reason i say that is because i think it would be an affirmation from the state that we are making progress. we have more parnts engaged than ever as i touched on from a voter standpoint. we are short spaced. we are the only urban district in the state of new jersey that is growing and we're seeing 20% growth projected in the next five years. it is a great story on a lot of fronts. it would be hard to get into the details of newark. but we are pushing for local control in jersey city and we think it's important and we are on track. we think it's attainable. there are other things the state government has been focused on. it's a conversation that the time is right for jersey city for that. >> i want to do a time check. we've got about five minutes left. >> thank you for coming and i'm glad you mentioned mcnare in education. i'm a former resident of jersey city. there are schools like lincoln and insider that are not the same caliber. i've recently learned there is a loophole wit

it's hard to say how much right away in terms of local cities.ave 5 or 6 or 7 days of on and off wet weather. we can take a look at the radar. i got it spinning. you'll see a little bit of action. i was noticing earlier, we were picking up rain over by the bay. when i say rain, it's sprinkles. it's indicative of how moist the atmosphere is. that's good, right? so as we head into tomorrow morning, this system is pushing in. so the clouds thicken up tomorrow morning and as we head into tomorrow night, that's when in the evening is when we get to showers and a little bit of wet for your thursday morning commute. here's how it looks on the computer model. here we are, advance this model. here we are tomorrow night. maybe a little bit of shower activity. here we go into thursday after midnight. more showers, snow in the mountains. thursday morning, 6:00 a.m., wet roadways for the commute. is it a gully wash? no, but it will be slower. there will be some moisture falling from the skies and at 1:00 on thursday, that looks good, huh? that means wet roadw

healdsburg, cloverdale, saint helena are the only local cities with mandatory rationing. >> jacqueline: you could see the high level cloud that has the move did and also have a lot of ball this sporting effected is still faulty. two trees came crashing down in san francisco today. one of those trees came down on pine and fillmorea public works spokeswoman uncommon at the start of the rainy season. >> jacqueline: will talk more about the rain coming up just a bit. >> reporter: 2 trees came crashing down in san francisco today one of those trees pay no on time and still more streets. a public works spokeswoman says del trees are gone up caught at the start of the ready season. city officials say there have been about a dozen reports of falling trees throughout the city. one woman says she was driving on a pie street at the type that was a tree fell down. at its lucky she has it or was it got hit with a cave doubt. or was not hit when it came down. >> reporter: part of the 60 ft. tall tree broke off as cent vs colon with beach neighborhood report card of debt which where the tree cabo at

city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcominxxúú@@@@ >> (drums rolling). ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping.) >> wow. what a wonderful performance. so good morning, everybody. . district manager and ladies and gentlemen good morning and thank you for being here today open this about how far san francisco day. i'm the post master of san francisco. on above the of the united states positively services i want to welcome you to the 19th luna celebration the year of the horse is the 7 stamp in the series we're truly honored to be hosting this selection celebration let me begin by tha

proposal to create a new metropolitan government for osaka by merging the existing prefecture in the city. local acts solely on resigning as head of the city and calling a mayoral election of a specimen is that political groups in the assemblies of the city and osaka prefecture rejected his request that they use one of his four draft plans for the purples and to take over his political base accepted the companies to beating the opposition of assemblyman in a democracy requires a mandate. we need backing to narrow the draft plans down to one. so calling an election is justified by the islanders. schumacher was to create the new government by april next year. by merging the assembly's he says the entity will eliminate unnecessary administrative work and provide better services to residents. but i didn't i carrying out tree farm requires just the mention is that in a film about a real live human being. i'm from i know that some people didn't give some soul to the shoe so its content. i was having a boy he added. what he says is that the high handed it in with them. we've had enough i don't know wha

city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean localrticipation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom >> good afternoon, everybody let me please call this meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission at the 1:40 p.m. sfgovtv requires you to speak into the microphone otherwise the public can't hear our discussion. call roll >> commissioner president courtney. commissioner moran. commissioner torres. conditioning and commissioner vietor are on their way a you tell me 3 is the approval of the minutes from february 11, 2014. commissioners >> move to accept. >> any public comment on the minutes of

city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean localrticipation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 %elcom >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i'm scott wiener, the chairman of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair, and to my left is supervisor malia cohen. our clerk is ahn drape aausberry, and i want to thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting today's hearing, specifically jesse larsen and jonathan gomak. are there any announcements? >> yes, there are. please silence all cell phones and electronic device he. completed speaker cards and copies of a

city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom >> we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first

in its capacity as a certified local government the city and county of san francisco is give the authority to comment on the commission and it will be forwarded to the commission of the office of historic presently. it's a maritime district 10 non-contributing resources this includes the cranes and segments & of the rails and this is for the criteria a and criteria c. under criteria a that the nationally significant for the steel house shipbuilding in the united states and it's shipbuilding and it's wartime vessels. under the criteria c it's local significant and the physical record of the trend and architecture. it began in 1884 about the construction of the shipyard and that ends at the close of world war two. it was the end of the construction on world war two. 0 as an industry leader from the spanish american war the union iron historic district is associated with the american shipbuilding industries. the department argz usa agrees for its architecture and design it illuminates design specifically shipyard architecture. it got a revision and it revise the boundary to include the riches

let me make one last comment, how 14b relates to other city laws and programs. for example, the local hiring ordinance that supervisor mar and i were happy to support supervisor avalos on moving. we know that impacts small businesses in ways that are different from how it impacts larger businesses and we have to think about how the constellation of programs that we have sort of work in tandem. so, i just want to mention that. because the time is late, what i would like to do if it makes sense, colleagues, is to go to public comment. i have a list of about 18 members of the public that wish to speak on this topic. and, so, what i'd like to do is call them up in batches sw let me first call up doug chen -- >> forgive me. >> i'm sorry. >> just briefly. my name is megan keegan wallace. i am [speaker not understood]. i just wanted to clarify a couple pieces in the powerpoint. i know this is complex information and there's been a lot of back and forth about what data we have available, what it looks like, when it's going to be available to the public. so, just jumping back really quickly, i

report also mentions the printed o uil now each year over three hundred dollars and a local resident migrated into the city. felt almost equal to the population local county in china. in order to control the asian population the british government now deal with the fury economical and administrative measures t achieve it. the key measures with the transfer to the huge amount of land labor and industry and the nearby cause a problem. professor from the university will be on the all important proponent of the plan. more and want to just met beijing to construct a new residential area with the kids in and out of the problem. the total area of nearly eight hundred square miles the five million people. with that method would ameliorate the pressure on the tv to develop. another professor from taking the universe a stone pot. to this point if you don't just not trying to control the city's housing crisis don't believe that what the city's housing prices increased to eighty thousand yuan per square meter for more than twelve thousand us dollars a square foot. now local resident will automatically choose to leave

. >> so is that a procurement or a process that would be subject to the cities local business ordinance for example, and - and a typically if we're going to be hiring we're we've we'll have to seek the services first, because we'll be challenged by the union. >> we know that. >> so the city's procurement process not under the mo u still it's under our behalf is that true. >> i'm not sure. i think under the oc israel's policy >> we'll look at that matter further. >> my neck kwes question is along the same lines marketing. who are the marketing folks that you have on staff? >> well, we have 5 employees that work with the lottery and the inclusionary and the m r units so we have - primarily the developer plays a big roll in the may or may not of our units and we're managing they're marketing plans they develop with our help so we have adequate stapling staff on hand. >> it that everywhere you contract out same question. >> no. >> okay. somebody can ask >> okay. does anyone have any questions >> commissioner mondejar and a yes. i do a couple of questions. package 9 of the mo u under the cer

in its capacity as a certified local government the city and county of san francisco is give the authority to comment on the commission and it will be forwarded to the commission of the office of historic presently. it's a maritime district 10 non-contributing resources this includes the cranes and segments & of the rails and

. >> so is that a procurement or a process that would be subject to the cities local business ordinance for example, and - and a typically if we're going to be hiring we're we've we'll have to seek the services first, because we'll be challenged by the union. >> we know that. >> so the city's procurement process not under the mo u still it's under our behalf is that true. >> i'm not sure. i think under the oc israel's policy >> we'll look at that matter further. >> my neck kwes question is

. >> so is that a procurement or a process that would be subject to the cities local business ordinance for example, and - and a typically if we're going to be hiring we're we've we'll have to seek the services first, because we'll be

the heavy snow totals across the plains in the midwest very localized. kansas cityrtions of northern indiana and across the northeast. heavier snowfall totals like i mentioned up to 15 inches. around philadelphia it will be a tough forecast. we have relatively warmer temperatures that could mix in with the snow overnight. we could be seeing an ice concern with freezing rain and sleet mixing in with the snow. right now the winter storm warning for parts of the tri-state area does call for 4-8 inches of snow and up to a tenth of an inch of ice. very significant stuff. please be careful on the roadway as we head into tomorrow morning. temperatures taking a plunge along the lower 48. temperatures only in the single digits in portions of the upper midwest as we head into thursday. >> potentially really dangerous. stay inside if you can. >> problems continue to arise. looks like you are stuck with the air. there is no one to process the problem. doug luzader has the latest with why the glitches aren't really a big deal. >> good morning. as much as the white house likes to

knew in order to gain support they do this do what's right for the entire city of san francisco and it's residents. again, our local strongly supports the 0 project and we urge you to support the investment to create jobs and to add the development the city needs. thank you >> next speaker >> good morning, commissioners. my name is anthony i'm with the sheet melt workings. on behalf of sheet melt workers we're excited about this this going on. so this development will roach blight my produce housing concluding on site affordable units to union square. true mark urban we've partnered with them you heard rudy speak a half an hour ago about the programs called selma we've actually had the lecturer of speaking to the children of the trades that's important in san francisco. true mark is one of the developers they want to do right by the company and to the community and, you know, pay local hire and just a good wage form our workers to flourish and to be able to live in the city. i want to say we our local strongly supports this project. >> thank you. >> next speaker >> good morning, commissioners my name is kim diamond

they actually need to be i think in locales throughout the city but i think one of the solid goal that parcel to consolidate those all in one place. how all that comes about i don't exactly know but for starters we know there are several hundred people at the budget office and the facility office and in finance that need to go somewhere if soda is unavailable. the mayor's office would like to see eight story there is so i think there is a number of options. >> thank you. i apologize and it was an oversight on my part. i meant for the mayor's office of housing to be here as well. it's a joint select committee and we shouldn't have the school district presenting on one single item and i apologize for that and beginning of the year and we will make sure they're present for the committee meetings and the last point i want to make and on the resolution the school board passed in 2010 i would like to see that one of the goals was to leverage district real property assets for revenue that will aid the general fund, but also opportunities to close the opportunity gap which i think is one of th

our question to you is whether 17% local business participation is suitable and appropriate in our city. we ask that you rectify the situation in the upcoming legislative process amending the 13 b ordinance and to set the policy positions for the board of supervisors in enhancing local spending. thank you. >> mr. fong, can you share with us which department that is or is that information -- >>> airport. >> okay, airport. you point out the statistic we got suggests the 65% is something, but you're suggesting something very different. >>> there may not be a conflict there because what they're doing is aggregating between design and construction dollars. there are more construction dollars being spent to lbes than there are professional services. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, my name is dana doningues. i'm a local business owner in the bayview district. i own a lumber company. i've been an lbe company about 12 years. i've been involved in the lbe advisory committee about 7. and i have benefited from the 14b in the past. i do work with public works, p.u.c., and i've done a lot of projec