i have been a longtime city employee and have worked in that program that have been jointly administered by dbi and the mayor's office of housing and i will try my best to keep that a civil discussion going on and things that we may not be agreeing on the always be respectful, and keep in mind what is in the best interest of the people of san francisco. so thank you very much for being so gracious. an thank you to sonya for making the transition into the commission so seamless. thank you very much. commissioner hechanova: as a working body, as the complement's continue to really have this category of momentum, the wheels that are rolling forward, there is significantly more work to be done, and the category is not that we are missing, but the people that are now in the position to keep the wheels rolling. this also set the bar a little bit more higher where we have achieved and that category of how to achieve those is the transparency of making sure that the safety and welfare

lisa, a longtime advocate for our cities most vulnerable children, here in san francisco and throughout the country, the attorney general, along with our institutional partners, tipping point community, cpsc, and the baby child health center. the early life stress program, and the city and county of san francisco and its agencies, specifically ksar, general hospital, city attorney's office, the permit a public health, district attorneys of his, human services agency, police department, along with ucsf. thank you to these dinners supporters and friends, and as the dean said, we have community commitment to open our doors by the end of the year. i want to touch on one thing that the supervisor asked about dph's understanding, and as the doctor spoke about that commitment, we have been in long-term conversations with director barbara garcia. there is a letter in your packet on this support, which specifically addresses not only this particular use but is particular use at this particular location. supervisor cohen, thank you so much for your leadership in championing this legislation. we f

we thank our sponsors, starting with city national bank, which is also a longtime sponsor and partner and provides us with the outlook on investment and finance each year. we want to thank bob grant, the vice-president for city national bank, the nation's 26 largest bank with more than $23 billion in total assets and 79 offices in the bay area, southern california, nevada, an atlanta. they provide their businesses and families with complete financial solutions on the way up. we also want to thank golden gate university, which is also what i'm going to sponsor this event, and an angel, president of golden gate university. you will see him in just a minute. for over 110 years, nonprofit golden gate university has been helping adults achieve their professional goals by providing undergraduate and graduate education in accounting, law, business, and other related areas. ggu is california's fifth largest nonprofit university, and rolling over five dozen students with over 67,000 alumni. offering weakened forces in downtown san francisco and online through the university's award winning cyb

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longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. >> he has a way about him that brings people in and seeks to involve the people of san francisco. that is what we need. the polarization and san francisco does not benefit the people we are about to help. they need compassion, support, and they need us to work together to build a system o and employment and drug treatment and family building and all of those services that will enable us not to pay so much money on the back end. what you are doing is spectacular. i am humbled to be with you. i am excited the mayor has me this opportunity to work with great people to do this work. believe me, the best

longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. >> good morning, everyone. i am the director of the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. we are here to announce the 10- year lease for river bed at 680 folsom st.. 167,000 square foot lease. we have the mayor, ceo of river bed, the owner of the building, as well as david from jll to talk of the significance of this to the city. >> thank you, good morning. welcome to the super bowl of innovation. while we did not enjoy the other super bowl, we have been working on hours. i have always referred to san francisco -- and we continue to do this -- as the innovation capital of the world. r

longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. wear

longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. >> i think a lot of times we look a community and we say, there is this one and this one, and we all have our own agenda, when our agenda is to create great work. if you're interested in that, you are part of our community. >> it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> we are trying to figure out a way to create a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of, the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons from presenting d

longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... >> this is one of the museum's longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted the museum to reflect new directions in contemporary art. it has been focused on artists in this region with an eye toward emerging artists. ♪ it is often at th

city is gaining notoriety for something else. its commubity gardens like alemany farm, where hundreds of people get involved in growing things. but since this 4.5 acre farm is by ibterstate 280, even longtimeesidents unknowingly drive right past this farm by the freeway. >> you know, i've driven by this road hundreds of times. i've never even seen this farm or heard of this farm. but it's beautiful here. >> the alemany farm is located basically right in the middle of san francisco. it's on the southern side of the city right next to the 280. we're lucky in that the space is so large that we have a big buffer zone between the freeway and where we grow. this space was basically an illegal dump. and people from all over the city would drive down alemany boulevard, pull off, and dump their refrigerators, whatever it was they didn't want. and so people in the alemany housing community decided they didn't want a dump in their neighborhood.

city is gaining notoriety for something else. its commubity gardens like alemany farm, where hundreds of people get involved in growing things. but since this 4.5 acre farm is by ibterstate 280, even longtimeidents unknowingly drive right past this farm by the freeway. >> you know, i've driven by this

city is 20 miles south of yuma, arizona. right on the mexican arizona border. population 99,000. 99% of the people are latino. she has been in local politics for a longtime, run a bunch of campaigns she has led the recall on two different mayors so she's known there. she wants to run for city council but a judge in yuma says she can't because her english isn't good enough. by all accounts her english really is not good enough. but in san luis the entire town speaks spanish. business mostly is conducted in spanish, the signs are mostly in spanish. and just like many other border towns up and down arizona and texas, and the mexican border. arizona law, though is very, very clear, it says when you're a state lawmaker you must be able to speak, read and write spanish without any translator. when it comes to local politicians it's a little more vague. you still have to be able to speak english, but the proficiency levels are not really laid out, and so the courts believe there might be a little more wiggle room, the state supreme court will rule on this today, and this could have major implications on border towns up and down mexico and arizona, because there

longtime patron, a supporter of the community. you can read her obituary in "the chronicle." over 50 years of support. she was very helpful with the portsmouth gracia, donating to -- garage, donating to athletics around the city, especially in chinatown, the rebuilding of the chinatown recreation center, which is under way as we speak, -- unfortunately she will not be here to see the opening. i just wanted to adjourn in her memory. we are very grateful for the years of service that she has provided this community. commissioner buell: let the record so reflect. second to that motion? moved and seconded. unanimous. >> so thank you. i want to welcome everyone to a very exciting announcement around a pilot project we are kicking off today. and i also want to welcome everyone to one of the most parking challenged neighborhoods in san francisco, russian hill. i think it is well known that i do not own a car for good reason. but one thing i do want to mention is i used to live on russian hill. i actually did own a car for six months. it was a miserable experience. not just the cost of car ownership and gas and insurance and repairs, but every single night i had to spend half an hour looking for parking and when i di

stating losses -- devastating losses of longtime, wonderful companies places like green bay, sheboygan and those places as well as the loss of industry in a city like milwaukee which was once one to have greatest manufacturing towns in america, still, of course, has some. but we've lost many of those because of trade agreements that were paid for with soft money that both parties were involve inside until the mccain-feingold bill shut that down. >> host: baton rouge, louisiana, tyrone, good morning. you're on for russ feingold. >> caller: good morning, miss susan and senator, how you doing today? >> guest: i'm good, how are you? >> caller: okay. i'm a ron paul supporter. don't mean to put you on the spot, i haven't had a chance to read your book. i read part of pat buchanan's book. my point comes down to the economy and how we're investing money in foreign aid. and i get in trouble when i say this because a lot of people take it the wrong way, and i hope you don't, senator. but i think we are a bankrupt nation. with the debt we have, we're never going to get out of this debt with the intervention policies that we have. and i think much of it h

city's economic recovery. ultimately, a judge would have to clear any restructuring plan. >>> the longtime owner of a hardware store chain has died. john headly ran yard birds more than 30 years. he was known as a man who cared about his company stores, workers, products, and his community. he strongly opposed having large home improvement stores move into sonoma county until he sold the 10-yard bird stores to home depot in 2005. he was 77 years old. >>> pg&e is admitting it failed to inspect some gas line safety equipment along the peninsula. the utility blames the oversight on a recordkeeping error. pg&e was supposed to check the electric current running through the gas pipe that protects the line from corrosion. meanwhile, yesterday a judge proposed a $3 million fine against the utility for failing to reduce safety records following the san bruno explosion. eight people died in that blast. the head of the public utilities commission had previously suggested fining pg&e a million dollars a day until it turned over the record. >>> our time is 7:37. later today, coast guard will be the scene of a address, the

city of homs just in the last couple days. it's absolutely horrifying. the international community cannot stay silent about this. >> i gra el completely. here's the question -- it looks to me as a longtimehe middle east, what bashar al assad and his regime are doing similar to what his father did in hama, and there were obviously at the time, and you know this better than i do, maybe 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 innocent people simply slaughtered when they leveled virtually that town of hama. is that what's going on right now in homs? i told them the world had changed, that with satellite television, with the internet, with cell phones even, there was no way they could do what the father did and destroy a city without the world really being witness to it. as a result now we fast-forward to 2012, the world can see what the syrian government is doing, and the syrian government as a result is growing more and more isolated. lost weekend at the united nations security council representatives of governments from four different continents all agreed that what the syrian government is doing is wrong, and had not russia and china used their vetoes, the two countries that voted against it had veto pow