supervisor mercury me. aye. supervisor of a los -- avalos? aye. 9 ayes and one no. >supervisor chiu: this ordinance is finally passed. >> item 18 appropriating 100900 -- $1,925,000 of the general fund reserve and the public library preservation fund balance to various departments for litigation expenses. supervisor chiu: roll call vote. >> [roll call vote] there are twn ayes. supervisor chiu: item 19. >> item 19, an amendment to a construction management service agreement for laguna honda, changing the amount from approximately $15 million to $16 million. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 20? >> approval of modification #one of lease and use agreement at san francisco international airport. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 21. >> item 21 -- resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness, authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to submit an application and related documents to permit the issuance of residential mortgage rev

supervisor chiu: motion by supervisor carmen chu, seconded by supervisor mercury me -- supervisor mirkarimi. if we could now call the treasure island items 26 through 36. >> items 26 through 36 are the ordinance is that pertain to the treasure island/yerba buena project regarding ceqa guidelines and chapter 31, the adoption of a mitigation, monitoring, and recording program. items 27, or is amending the general plan with figures and various elements by adopting and adding the treasure island area plan. item 28, hornets amending the planning code to include the treasure island used district, amending section 1 of 5 relating to height and bulk limits. item 29 -- ordinance and in the zoning map to show the zoning designations of treasure island. item 30 is an ordinance amending the subdivision code, i -- adding division four, pertaining to the subdivision process pertaining to a process for reviewing a filing vesting transfer maps. item 31 -- resolution approving the transportation implementation plan. item 32 is an ordinance approving the treasure island community development for certain real

in the bay, some concentrations are pretty high and concentrations of me they'll mercury in some speciesre pretty high. so there you need to be more cautious. >> reporter: it's a bit difficult to sort out which fish to fish for and where. >> the fish are a great source of nutrition, protein and formiga fatty acids. we don't want to scare people away from eating fish. >> reporter: you are it sounds like. >> like many foods these days, you need to read the label, you need to be informed. >> reporter: fortunately, says davis, the northern california coast and the pacific appear in particular have to have relatively low concentrations of toxins in fish. don nap. >>> the so-called geezer bandit is at it again. he hit his 14th bank friday near san luis obispo. the elderly man pulled a gun on a teller and left with an undisclosed amount of cash. the same man is suspected of hitting 11 banks in the san diego area sips 2009. he has also held up branches in bakersfield and santa barbara. the f.b.i. says the man appears to be in his 70s though he could be wearing a disguise. >>> no complaints about

joseph men, howard mince of "the mercury news" joining us for the first time as a reporter. we welcome you. talk to me about why i should care. as you politicians argue net neutrality, why do i as a person at home care? >> well, the open internet is absolutely inseparable in terms of our understanding of how the internet works. every time you click on, you can move to where you want to go and access what you want. that's the brief explanation of it. >> you're not talking about censoring the internet in the sense of well, i'm not going to let you go to that website. that's not what folks are saying. it's something more fine-tuned than that. >> well, we have broadband providers. and not very many of them. in fact, in many regions, in most regions of the country, there's not a great deal of competition because more than one broadband provider doesn't compete with another. they are really the gatekeepers of the internet. they are in business to make money. which i think is terrific. but there is a consumer part of this, and there is an innovation part of this. we know that this is -- the internet has real

joining me on our news panel are paul rogers, environment writer for the "san jose mercury news," joshischman, legal and political affairs reporter for the "oakland tribune," john myers for kqed public radio, joining us from the capitol. so john, what are some of the details of governor brown's revised budget? >> -- notion that you have to solve the state budget problem through a combination of spending cuts and taxes. now, the governor and the legislature have already worked through roughly half of the deficit problem. he's pegging the remaining deficit at its about 9.5 billion, $9.6 billion but he's incesistent the tax plan move forward. current sales taxes and car taxes and the sales surcharge he moved forward and delayed and he wants voters to approve all of that. there are modifications. the state's revenues look better than they did, $6.6 billion more over the two-year period of revenues we thought they would have, that will help schools and the structural debt problems, the wall of debt, i love that term he put out, the wall of debt he wants to chip away at but the fundamentals

we've recently traveled with you and senator corker and me about environmental clean-up at oak ridge, urging a focus on the dangers of the mercury there and factoring in the large population of the region. i'd be remiss if i did not say thank you for the meeting and underscore the importance of that. my questions, though, are along the lines of my comments and opening statement about energy research. does this sound about right that the department has about $6 billion more or less for energy research, roughly $6 billion? what should it be? if you were professor chu -- >> if i weren't bound by the office of budget -- >> let me put it another way. you talk about hubs. i talk about manhattan projects. aren't we both talking about accelerating energy research in a focused way? >> yes. i'm here to defend the president's budget, but i would love to see increases. i think, as i said before, this is -- the research we do, with the goal of getting the private sector to pick up this stuff and run with it and to give them, as chairman feinstein said, the research, using a source of a facility, actually gave a leading edge and developed a s

me again. are you worried about the safety of the food supply with, you know, our oceans being so polluted, high levels of mercuryus in all the meets? i know organic and locally grown substance is super fabulous cuppa but most people can't, a., for that, and b., they are not aware of it. do you do worry about that? >> of course. >> and are you active in other chefs, active in fda safety and all of that? .. >> the power spots as they are called here in d.c. like the palm or the cafe milano. i feel like i know the answer but i want to hear you say it. what is sort of your vow from a simply food perspective? do, you know, serious foodies respect those places for the quality of their food or is it simply just a place to be seen and to use your expense account? >> not your expense account? >> no. >> just checking. >> there's the different types of power houses i don't think that are in the chef world are highly anticipated. i mean, the palms you will go and get a steak. it's a chain, you know, what type of meat they're using and what type of products are they local probably not because of the chain. and cafe milano, y