[applause] our work at the local level, as dr. jesse mentioned, is in coordination with our regional partners, our federal partners, and we all, as mentioned earlier, have to do this together. that is why we have had great partnerships with our social service teams, our state -- are salvation army, and our chinese community development corporation, our hud, which expressed to sean donovan some time ago that there were making great strides and efforts to make sure that there was going to be more housing targeted for our veterans. we have been doing that right at the local level. some years ago, we began with the veterans academy, 102 units built in the presidio. now, today, san francisco, through our project always connect that created the veterans connect, a very dedicated, focused out reach on our veterans to make sure they know how to connect up with all of our services. social services, mental services, health services, housing, and appointment. just last year, we started the veterans portal, which would connect to one of our m

that you are separate being transferred even when it is shifted in the corporate bubble to the local level where people stimulate our local economies. talking about ordinary people taking their hard earned cash away from the big banks but is it really going to bother the big banks looking at the scale of this they make every day don't they i mean are you going to make much of a good i'm going to get much of a message across really. the goal is not you've heard anyone call it a local level so far credit union sixteen an additional six hundred fifty thousand new members in the week since pastry been transferred it was started so we are seeing positive improvements on the local level and they said i don't like occupy wall street at all it's nice you hurt anyone or anything i was the guarantees i told just to sort of a cash what's the guarantee for people to put their money into these alternatives like credit unions and smaller banks how can you guarantee they won't go bust the more of these times are going through right now some of these big they could have money had ever been around for a lo

you are separate being transferred movement is a shift of five from the corporate level to the local level where they will stimulate our local economies. are you talking about ordinary people taking the hard earned cash away from the big banks but is it really going to bother the big banks looking at the scale of this they make every day don't they i mean are you going to make much of a dead are you going to get much of a message across really again the goal is not you hurt anyone the goal is to shift the local level so far credit unions have seen an additional six hundred fifty thousand new members in the week since base being transferred eva started so we are seeing positive improvements on the local level and as i said i'm like occupy wall street the goal is not to hurt anyone or anything and was the guarantees are told to us just out of a cash what's the current easy for people to put their money into these alternatives like credit unions and smaller banks to guarantee they won't go bust tomorrow in these times are going through right now some of these big buying they get the money out

at the local level, you are going to have plenty of opportunities to look at how you increase revenues. it is a different set of parameters that we're dealing with the state level versus local. that is why it is really comparing apples and oranges. [applause] >> this question is for jeff adache. using your pension reform measures should not be construed as anti-union. the two largest contributors to your ballot measure campaign have funded republicans in ohio and wisconsin who have spearheaded efforts to take on the public employees' unions. the unions here have been upset about that. are they wrong to connect the actions of your contributors in the midwest would let you are planning for the ballot? >> what was said in the media was not true. i mean, these individuals have contributed to a variety of people, including republican candidates for governor, but they have never, you know, put money into anti-union efforts in either of those states. remember, when i started working on reform, not a one of these elected officials stepped up to the plate and acknowledged that this was a proble

trying to move that back in the community to a local level so that our local businesses are disaster responders that can help them in the recovery process is very essential. thank you very much for your time. [applause] >> thank you. that's great. it brought back a lot of memories. our next speaker is mayor bates. first elected mayor bringing a lifetime of service including four years as alameda county supervisor and two decades a california legislator representing berkeley. he worked to build berkel

but giving them the flexibility at the local level to be succ s successf successful. creating great public schools for our nation's children. 6xrpga4ij!s!ekphave pri schools has been the big push. you've been an advocate for charter schools. many of them have the money of private interests. they don't care about dollar signs and bottom lines. desperately underfunded. where you have individuals, folks who want to come in, help divide trips to college campuses or pay for that arts teacher that got cut out, i support that. you need to hold them accountable and make sure they yor motives. if families want to help out, companies want to help out. we all need to unite behind our schools. >> ten years from now, yourj$yi. everything you want to put in place is put into place. what does the average urban school look like. >> we're all motivated by one goal. president obama's challenged us, we have to lead the world in college graduation again. one generation ago we did. rd-i want is for every single young person not to just graduate from high school, that's a stating point, no

trying to move that back in the community to a local level so that our local businesses are disaster responders that can help them in the recovery process is very essential. thank you very much for your time. [applause]

trying to move that back in the community to a local level so that our local businesses are disaster responders that can help them in the recovery process is very essential. thank you very much for your time. [applause] >> thank you. that's great. it brought back a lot of memories. our next speaker is mayor

this is a wonderful place to be for all of us together to do what we can at the local level but we need partners at the state and federal levels. thank you. [applause] >> there may be a couple of minutes for press questions but first i want the good folks to sign. >> i will use a blue pen to make it distinctive. >> thank you. >> thank you all. let's have a happened for these folks. >> mayor ol veras from santa rosa. >> i would like to answer the question by talking about one of the partners aware -- we're most pleased to be associated with in our effort and that is the postgraduate school and this sunday we are going to launch our program that we've worked collabora collaboratively throughout the entire community. and the point about these networks is it takes a while to get there. i know when we all first started coming together mayor morris talked about and san bernardino talked about what they intended to do and now you hear quite naturally that is what they do. and that is important. you heard the mayor of santa rosa say i tried law enforcement, that doesn't cut it. so, these networ

the state and local level, it is more about governance than government. they have already presumed dysfunction in washington. they are already changing how they function. i will give you one example, which will sweep across many areas of domestic policy. transit. if you want to be a 20th-century mitropoulos, you need a 20th- century transit system. interplay of commuter rail, light rail, rapid boss, so forth and so on, to connect the corridors. in denver, they are building the largest light rail system in the united states, primarily funded with local money. in los angeles, the land of sprawl, they are dramatically extending out there transit system with smart land use and zoning, primarily financed by local revenue sources. they moved on. they are not expecting washington to get its act together. they know, to compete globally, they are to have to make the kind of investments with their states and private sector to do so. they want a level of the reform at this level, so that their presence and prominence in the global economy can be recognized and built

we need to continue to plan right down to the local, local level. i think the one area that has not been talked about as much as a really the private sector. the private sector to play an incredible role with resources in our community. we're starting out working close with them in san mateo county. businesses do not necessarily know the boundaries, like government does. so we need to bring them forward. we're working with our south county with the national disaster resiliency center at moffett field. we're working with the government sector so that they are all in together and they're not isolated. they bring a lot to the table. it is critical that we continue that regional collaboration, as well as our public sector partners. because they really do add a lot. >> we have all seen the result of some of the disasters that we have had in the bay area. when there was the fire we had in the san francisco marina or the freeway collapses around the bay area, but i wonder what the best way is to reach the average citizen -- hear i am, and to warn us about

the things that happen at the local level are the most important. i'm under no illusions that the best idea come out of that beltway inside d.c. in fact in my two years there, i can't think of too many good ideas that have come out of that area of d.c. it's important to really look and listen to what happens in the community, because that's the most important. as i started out saying, these are not new ideas, new concepts for craig and myself and how craig operated in that place in florida, wherever that operated, and what we admitted boston and what you're doing here in san francisco. it's about bringing people together. and after us talking about a year or so they said well, you have got call it something. it's really neighbors helping neighbors. thank you. [applause] >> thank you rich for being here with us today to commemorate this important event in san francisco history and for sharing with us fema's view of the private sector. it's very much appreciated. as a private sectorly asia zon, i'd also like to recognize and say to our partners in the

an additional six hundred fifty thousand new members we are seeing positive improvements on the local level and american economic experts to save that the security fence that we use for credit unions are actually a lot more state and banks and that is because of the difference in how profits if used so credit unions hire actually according to experts more state than any of the bakers to step recently have a right to make a profit my response that is exactly why it's sort of a transfer day that they have rights make a profit and i have a right to decide if i'm going to give them my money or not i definitely don't think the transfer day is a shift to socialism in the political sense i think this is a consumer community reawakening. israel's began to pour two pro palestinian activists from the blocked for to try to carry medical supplies to go to boats and canadian current twenty seven foreign nationals from turkey on wednesday they were boarded by israeli navy guards and towed away similar protest vessels have been intercepted in the past at the very last year did the killing of knowing turki

six hundred fifty thousand new members we are seeing positive improvements on the local level a mere economic acts to save the city and us for credit unions are actually a lot worse. and that is because of the difference in our profits so credit unions where actually according to experts. and the biggest is that recently rates make a profit my response that is exactly why it's sort of a transfer day that they have rates make a profit and i rate it's going to get them a many are not i definitely don't think they transferred ship to socialism in the political stance i think this is a consumer community. israel's going to put in probe to fish from a coded for term of a proto coated medical supply to boats irish and canadian car and putting seven foreign nationals a search so from turkey on wednesday they were boarded by israeli navy guards and towed away similar protos persons would intercept from the past and in may last year the killing of nine turkish nationals on porter for to cause an international outcry israel ease the blockade but activist away to a rough told me the palestinian

as you go from the local level to the municipal level, then the state level, and where you plug in with the federal government, this for assumption that we are on the same page and working off the same set of standards is something on which i reach out. to the extent that we were dealing with a contaminated, radiological environment, it was important to have a nuclear regulatory commission. it plugged into the washington, dc environment. the technical expertise that resided in the department of energy. working closely with the government of japan and the power co. in tokyo. what this brings to us now, with an understanding of the role that we need to play, it is an identification of whether there are gaps in the role that was needed. how to apply the military instrument is important for military leaders. we can help to optimize the approach the two are trying to take. for us, there was this sense that we were behind. i would suggest that, in the case of a crisis that continues and insurers for the length of time that this did, the roles that we were trying to play was how to anticipate

if you look at the local level this situation is very ambiguous. you cannot have 32 people covering the state legislature in this state. now they have a little bit above 20 to have major papers in the second biggest city pullout of the state legislature for financial reasons, and not have ambiguity about the quality of local content. we were born as a result of a tumultuous times at the tribune, and one of the bigger ones in the country only 30 television stations and a lot of newspapers they went into bankruptcy. we started as a small nonprofit. the good news is our main client, the new york times, we produce a couple of pages on friday and sunday, very happy with the product. the not so good news is do we have a sustainable business model? i think that is very unclear at this point. whether the one will be able to get to folks, mostly the old foe is paying $700 to have the print subscription, to pay anywhere near that for the stuff that they may get online, and when we get into this later when it comes to politics, the lack of consensus, fragment

. >> where i was approximately two weeks ago are doing things at the local level to rebuild infrastructuren the state of new york, the governor of new york i know is considering new steps that he can take at the state level to put more people back to work. we need state and local officials not to wait on washington but also to do things that they can do with the powers that they have to rebuild jobs and put people back to work in their communities and we need to say no to the efforts to cut back on teachers, police officers, fire fighters, public workers at the local level who serve us every day, jobs that people in our community earn good wages, with good benefits and have an opportunity to participate in sensible and fair retirement programs. >> and this is not partisan, marc, but we'll work with anyone if they are working for all americans. i toured with newt gingrich on education, so we'll work with people, but when people are saying close the door on public sector jobs, let's block everything that the president does, how do you work when you're killing our communities? >> it is obstru

and local level. because that top-down to me has not worked, especially with the nature of the polarization of people in politics today. i gave a tremendous address at ucla talking about issues, people who are proponents of an issue, they do not go after the issue. they go after the people. is the politics of personal destruction. so we ought to keep that out of the federal level. get it down into the grass roots. it is something that a lot of people in this room, where you have sections or branches have local and state level, and i think we have to start working on those folks to be able to start talking about what transportation means. the other day, and i really am appreciative of caterpillar joining the miller center for public affairs, they talked about their great achievements in terms of sales, but they have done in terms of profit. to make, the most and significant part of it, it was not all but the vast majority was generated from their exports. that meant that someone is building something o

and the local level, when we commit to voters the sales tax, a 30-year plan, we expect that the federal level, there will be a little -- a level of commitment that would allow us to leverage the funds that the locals are willing to commit to. so the two-year effort is better than nothing, certainly, especially at this time of economic hardship. but we need multi-year commitments to be able to engage in multi-your initiatives, like the high-speed rail initiative and other things we're doing. even some of the programs that require multi-year funding. we will hope for the best in that area and continue to encourage congress to do the right thing. i wanted to point out a few things that are going on, that went on this month related to funding for projects. we had a series of meetings with mcc to try to sort of strategy for the big projects under construction. the presidio parkway, central subway, and the transbay project it all of them are experiencing some level of impacts from the slowdown in the economy and the pace of the liver of state and federal funds. we're doing the due diligence n

they were developed at the state and local level first. they became the models and principles when the moment arrived politically to move it to the national level, so when you think about what i've been talking about all of these models emerging and discussed, find it at a website called community-wealth -- it's important to see it not only as models, but as the elements of what if you do larger extensions are likely to become the basis of national movements when we get that kind of power built up over time. it's not simply grass roots stuff. we're generating principles and strategies and people who know how to do new things are also being developed in this way. let me give you something further. how many people know that 25% of the electricity generated in the united states is done by either municipal ownership or co-ops? 25%. that's an extraordinary value, again, you don't see it in the press. another example, these are not marginal efforts already, and they can be seen as a building up of powers at that level. let me make a couple more s

thought that this was now the perfect opportunity given that we have more responsibility at the local level to do a close analysis of the sentencing practices. that is why we put a commission together. what the commission will do is create an advisory body that will analyze a sentence in patterns and make recommendations for sentencing reforms to advance best practices and criminal justice. let me tell you who the members would be. the district attorney, the public defender, adult probation, a juvenile probation, the police department of public health, a member of a nonprofit organization that works with victims, one that works with x offenders, and academic researcher, -- an academic researcher. the commission has a different responsibilities and i will go through those briefly. comparing those to other jurisdictions, there are best practices that we can learn from other places that might be helpful. in addition to that, we want to look at how we define recidivism locally. come up with definitions and come up with standards for the department that are responsible for reducing recidivism. o

they were developed at the state and local level first. they became the models and principles when the moment arrived politically to move it to the national level, so when you think about what i've been talking about all of these models emerging and discussed, find it at a website called community-wealth -- it's important to see it not only as models, but as the elements of what if you do larger extensions are likely to become the basis of national movements when we get that kind of power built up over time. it's not simply grass roots stuff. we're generating principles and strategies and people who know how to do new things are also being developed in this way. let me give you something further. how many people know that 25% of the electricity generated in the united states is done by either municipal ownership or co-ops? 25%. that's an extraordinary value, again, you don't see it in the press. another example, these are not marginal efforts already, and they can be seen as a building up of powers at that level. let me make a couple more s

if we were willing too change the mix of things, we might have more support at the local level and the state level. they measure the balance and every issue, about 3/4 get approved. it's a way different balance than what we talk about here at the national level. it's bike paths, it's transit, it's highways, may even be rail in some cases. so they're willing to pay when they a sense of what it is and when there's much more of a balance in what the product and the output is. i work with people who say, why should we fund anything if they're just going to do more of the same, which breeds part of the cynicism that we talked about? i've gone out and been hollered at about building roads night and day for endless times. people see an increase in capacity, opens up for more development, which crowds up 9 road, and they don't see a way out of this vicious circle. we're not offering other ideas to help them get to a different place. i think there's a diverge nents product that makes it really hard for people to subscribe to just more of the same. >> there's been a common thread running through

the second piece is the stated at the local level. there are many partisan divides at the station and the local level. i do believe that the governors and mayors took place over party and collaboration over conflict. and when push comes to shove, they strengthen their stay, which comes back to innovation, infrastructure, and human capital tailored to the economy of denver vs. detroit or denver vs. colorado. there is a pragmatic caucus of there. this country is rich in partisan leadership, and what has to happen is this infection. i think structurally to things have to happen, and this is in the history of what happens in the united states. the states are laboratories. the metros are the center for innovation. the more we can get them to show the way forward across party lines, the more likely we can repair damage here. the second is something i talked about before. this is a federal republic. we are like a series of other countries around the world. let's begin as we move toward a round of deficit reduction and gross threw cold in the

at the local level, particularly. another reason has to do with a very impatient public.nfrastructure projects like highways and water systems and transit not only cost a lot of( money, but they take a lot of time. yeah, the third reason is the thing we've been talking about all along, money. three years of a bad economy have reduced government reven s revenues, kris. reduced them everywhere. it makes it hard to fund even the most valued projects. one thing is clear. both of these projects will provide many jobs if public officials can get their acts together and the public sees the real benefits. >> it is hard with some of those long-term projects. >> it is. >> before you go, i want to ask you about what's going to happen possibly on uc campuses. the board of regents, they're going to vote on another proposed fee hike. the students are calling for a general strike, some of them. in fairness, we have to say you are a professor in the csu system. what do you think is going to happen? do the regents have any wiggle room? even if the protests flair up and there is a general