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at the local level, the recommendations i have is that we are encouraging dbi to escalade getting thei -0-- getting their inspectors trained and certified. as we see the need of the number of messages that are going through lawsuits, that we need to do as much as we can on the front end. also, as

at the local level, the recommendations i have is that we are encouraging dbi to escalade getting thei -0-- getting their inspectors trained and certified. as we see the need of the number of messages that are going through lawsuits, that we need to do as much as we can on the front end. also, as carla johnson mentioned, we need to improve the coordination to help businesses resolve the complicated remedies they encounter with tomography and size of space. with the concept of

with a data some -- whether that is on a local level or a national level, there is nothing we can do that is more patriotic than to help our veterans. this is such a big step in the right direction at a local level. i want to thank our local a administration and all the public and private partners that are here today. thank you on behalf of the board of supervisors. we look forward to making this a successful model for the future. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. you know, bevin dufty and i sat next to each other in the board of supervisors for a couple of years. i want to echo of the remarks that have been made. i want to thank all the partners that are here, especially partners in the private sector making this happen. this issue was going to be addressed the right way. we are a city that knows how to get these things done. we are setting an example for the rest of the country. i want to thank the mayor for taking this issue on as a priority. i think it is disgraceful we have so many veterans to sacrifice for the country that don't have a roof over there head -- their head. i th

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local staff we could do as possible. supervisor wiener suggested strong advocacy at the state and federal levels, advocating for our small businesses and for our city as well. if you can wrap up on any other suggestions or recommendations. >> those are the core ones for the local. i do have some, carl johy -- carla johnson mentioned application to pre- accessibility improvements. if a business is proposing what dbi has as an equivalent accommodation, and if there is different departments you have different agreements about whether that should be approved, i think i am inclined to say businesses should not be incurring a pre application fee for that. because that is -- conflicts with internal city departments. but if a business wants to approach ahead of time or an architect, that may be different. supervisor mar: thank you. let's go to the -- president chiu for his amendments and do that. we have posed -- closed public comments. president chiu: the legislation requires the city to get prior building applications for tenants that want to come into compliance with the ada laws. this is an amendment in 38.3. this would requ

at the national, state, and local level. for 15 years in california, drug policy alliance has been involved in some of the nation's most progressive criminal- justice reform efforts, as i mentioned, in the nation, including creating the largest treatment amphetamine incarceration program, working on the rehabilitation act of 2008, which is designed to evaluate criminal sentences, as well as reducing prison overcrowding that was occurring at the time. as well as working on the state level legislation and reducing penalties for drug possession. from its inception, we had an office in san francisco, and we have been involved in multiple initiatives to make san francisco a model city. our wo providing funds to the d.a.'s office for the bike and track program, of working with various tax -- task forces, working to crackdown on medical marijuana, and working with medical marijuana access for patients. my commitment to criminal- justice reform began early. i grew up in south africa. for more than seven years i've been involved in a

i agree handling this at the local level makes sense in terms of reentry. we have had 125 people with straight sentences, 58 with split sentences. the chief went over those definitions for you. i did not want to go that -- go through that again in the interest of time. as we go through the plan for the ab 109 population, one of the biggest plans is the reentry pawed coming in collaboration with the adult probation department. the sheriff's department is also getting in on this tool, for all populations, which is our final content. risk assessment, validation, and part of this is also a validated jail costs of the case and system. we have had classification but it had not been validated by the national institute of corrections. the other thing that we will have at their reentry pod -- and we have a conference call this afternoon with members of my department -- try to get some of the prcs's to us ahead of time. i feel that people have done a good job going to the prisons, getting those assessments, and getting people to show up. hopefully, they can get housi

from our perspective from the local level, these laws are set by the federal americans with disabilities act. there were further complicated by state legislation and the legislation we have in front of us i have put forth was my best attempt given what our city attorney said we were allowed to do here locally to help move the ball on this. i want to mention two quick things. i did have a conversation with senator dianne feinstein about this issue some months back. she made her first public comments on this issue. she does understand that this is a real challenge with the federal civil rights law that has been touted and has been rightfully touted as having accomplished a lot of things. we understand there are issues that need to be resolved at the state and local level that have been complicated and she is looking for -- she is looking to this. i want to thank the office of small businesses. their under-researched. i asked -- pushed to that one headcount to the beleaguered office of small business to increase their head count from four to five. it was a 20% increase. we can do better tha

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there is money at the local level and pressures on the local level, i don't think that's a bad thing. when anybody loses a job, the fact is i have more government pleas for square mile. please don't send me any more money. please don't. i don't need anymore. i got plenty. i don't need more. they are extraordinarily expensive and difficult to manage and the idea that we continue to have to deal with some of these issues, i think because of the federal intervention, if the president and the congress want to spend monothose to create jobs, spend monoinfrastructure. what builds private sector jobs. don't send monosending me money to hire more public employees. do something that will have a multiplying effect and a geometric effect on the economy. if you do it, don't do that by the way unless you do the other things that they talked about up here already. which is to deal with the fairness of the tax system and to deal with entitlement growth as well. >> thank you. i want to ask you about -- their two sets of governance in the country. on the one hand you demonstrated what can be done with

>> we will play heavily at the national level and the state and local government level. that is where we can effect change. by electing pro workers -- pro- worker majorities and governors who think like us to support working families and want to rebuild the middle class. we will continue to do that every single day. >> how much do you plan to spend? i have seen $100 million. >> i have no idea. >> no idea? [laughter] >> no idea. we are going to be effective in utilizing -- our resources to let wopro-working family candidates. >> we have time for lee saunders -- thank you for being with us this week. stay with us to reflect our our reporters. melanie, what did you hear that stood out? >> is stood out that he wants to start a dialogue about pensions. he was not specific about what that would look like. there are obviously state lawmakers, republican governors who want to cut pensions and have already moved in that direction. that will be a big battle that this union will face in the coming years. it is possible that dialogue can result in a national dialogue similar to the

you need to do, based upon the state regulations in terms of the criteria of being applied at the local level, you need to ask for a valid id. business is required to offer the individual to be able to engage in the visitors', being able to look at their goods -- to engage in businesses, of being able to adapt their goods. this has been a good tool for them. while there is not often a means for purchasing stolen grosoods,d a police report is filed and that individual being able to connect the dots, that does not happen often, but it would communicate with me this is a deterrent for those keeping those kinds of people to sell goods, so if the permit goes away, the requirement for the business to ask for that goes away, so i think there is more in terms of what that may mean in terms of senegal and they like it, but they will have a harder time if they retain about a business operation on their own, they will have a harder time defending it, but that is a small group. it is not a majority of the businesses the purge inventory -- the purchase inventory somewhere else and bring it into cell, -- i

i participated in at about 13 years ago on the national, state, and local levels.dable housing is really part of the social infrastructure of this city, and it is one of our last-ditch efforts to preserve the economic diversity, the racial diversity, and the cultural diversity of this city that we have all worked to preserve, regardless of whatever district you may represent or be part of. this is about san francisco and san franciscans. i hope we can get to a point where we can have supervisor campos' full support and vote on this because this is a long time coming. these changes have got to come. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. sarah here. i want to reiterate my previous point that spurt is very much in support of having the trust fund. -- spur is very much in support of having the trust fund. i want to talk about the 40 acres. we had the planning department run an analysis of the plans we would think of as being re

there are several things in place on the state and local level having an adverse affect on our financial health locally. we are in a quandary. we cannot really move beyond that until we remove the pocket. prop. 13 is a serious block. it would free up hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be brought into public schools and could also be in fused in our local -- infused in our local and state economy. that is a very complicated question, and one i have only brush the surface on. that is another segment. >> we will follow that by another complicated question. i would like to get your thoughts on homelessness and what the city is doing about homelessness, what direction you think we should be headed in, a big issue in san francisco. >> homelessness is interesting. when you look at it as a sociological perspective, we have some of the people in the homeless community enjoying being on the street. others want help. i think when we also -- we need to do a better job of taking care of those mentally ill. when you are on the street and you listen to the homeless folks or you watch them inte

you come in with me and sit in with my husband and my team and really experience the rest on a local level and see what we're doing in the community. it turns out all the talk may be for naught. the chair of the council's owning committee says when it comes to a proposal for logan square he is going by the books and not by the alderman dick privilege. i could not do because i don't want to get myself or the city in legal problems that would cost the city more than what the issue was worth. it certainly is a polarizing issue word on the street is split. >> i like it as a restaurant, i don't care about the political part. >> i think people should be able to do what they want, take the discussion elsewhere but regardless of your personal views. i believe in the separation of church and state. >> the plan to file a complaint with the illinois department of human rights citing religious discrimination. chicago police looking for the driver of a car that had a woman on the city's west side last night leaving her critically injured this this surveillance video the car drives off near the intersec

and fostering the future leaders from our minority communities to serve at federal, state, and local levelse mission is to empower patients and pacific islander americans in civic and public affairs to education, active participation, and leadership development. >> civic engagement, leadership development, and community servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the state of california and our nation. >> ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. his parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his fat

they don't have to be mutually exclusive, but it's difficult to handle those on a local level because it's federal policies that make the difference. we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. >> how are you going to follow up on that? are you going to ask the obama team and romney team to do just that or is this community talk right now? you're on a national show saying you want this to happen. i think it's a heck of an idea. >> well, the mayor is on the case, and he is determined to make it happen. >> okay, shelly, why is the plant being shut down? are the workers not as good as the chinese workers? what was the reason given from bain capital for this action? >> well, the reason that i understand is because it's a business decision based on revenues and profits. however, we would stake our northern illinois workers, our productive workers, our well-trained workers, werers with a great midwestern work ethic against any worker, and we find it hard to believ