i am going to turn it over to micki callahan. this proposal has received a lot of attention, but it is 250 pages, and we have not had a good opportunity to walk through all of the. i have asked her to educate all of us and the members of the public. the floor is yours. >> thank you, madame chair, supervisors. i am presenting an overview of the consensus measures initiated by supervisor elsbernd. i am also prepared to answer questions with respect to the technical amendments, the version that you see today, which is not particularly a substantive. however, i will review the general elements. first of all, we have elements that applied only to new hires. these are employees not currently in city employment and would not start until july 20 -- july 2012. for those employees, we have a tiered retirement plan. currently, our retirement plans, as of several years ago, are based on a two-year final average salary. this is intended to address to spiking. additionally, we are capping the potential salary at the irs cap, or a lower number.

[laughter] thank you, micki. mayor lee: very comprehensive. we began with people asking, why should we sacrifice? what do we get for ourselves? and that great leap, i think, started very early to "what can we do to help to make sure our pension is solvent?" that is the changing role that labor has made. i was pretty excited from the beginning where we were making a lot of proposals. where we started having union representatives make their proposals, then we knew we were on our road to ultimately thinking together how we could solve this problem. again, i want to attribute, really, where the cost of this matter lies. and that is with our labor unions and labour representatives working together with us to build consensus so we all sacrifice to make our system work better. with that, i would like to introduce rebecca ryan. [applause] >> thank you so much. i want to acknowledge my colleagues standing beside me and behind me. i think it is important to understand what a difficult process consensus is. it is always preferable, but what it requires i

[laughter] thank you, micki. mayor

cal ripken, micky mantle and lou gehrig to name a few. they did okay. >> all right.ew king of the jungle if you will at the san francisco zoo. her name is martha and today recen recently donated tiger explored her new home. this advertise the first new tiger to arrive at san francisco zoo since one of the big cat escaped and killed a visitor on christmas day 2007. since then the zoo has installed a higher wall and made the tiger grotto more secure. >> we added i think 10 feet or more to the height of theen closure. additional hot wire and some viewing windows and the mesh that you see out ther there. >>reporter: and despite today rain visitors seemed excited about the syberian tiger's arrival. 10-year-old martha weighs almost 300 pounds and eat as steady diet of chicken rabbit and pork. >> coming at 9:00. baseball engineers los angeles dodgers won't let anyone buy. stay engineers los angeles dodgers won't let anyone buy. stay with us [ kate ] if this icelandic mud could work wonders on my skin, imagine what it could do for my business. now, i just had to figure out a

we checked in with micki maynard of the midwest reporting project changing gears for an update. plus, there's a new dispatch from ray suarez on his reporting trip to indonesia. he reflects on the country's goals and its vulnerabilities. that's on the rundown blog. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. >> brown: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the iraq and afghanistan conflicts. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are eight more. >> warner: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll look at, greece's latest effort to fend off bankruptcy. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. capti

lo queuiero contar, que nos decÍa micky que le pondrÁ decorado dorado, un vestido de novia con cosasda mÁs estÁ con nosotros, el grupo brindis. pero miren, aptntes que nada recuerdo, muchos padres karct gano a sus hijos por mentir. ¿que pasa si le da mal ejemplo a su hijo? las consecuenciass de los hijos con sus padres. tengo al grupo brindis cocinando. mÁs adelante nos das recetas que se va a chupar los ♪ >> este segmento de despierta amÉrica es presentado por: (publicidad) ♪ >> mire, busque el lÁpiz y papel porque vamos a cocinar una receta rÁpida y deliciosa, nuestros invitados son el grupo que le canta al amor,nos visitan de san luis potosÍ, mÉxico y son muy romÁnticos. nosotros los conocÍamos por el sabor a cumbia,pero cÓmo les va con el sabor de la cocina?,gerardo. >> vamos a preparar unas quesadillas,es una receta es sencilla, algo rÁpido. >> gerardo es el chef y claudio su ayudante, verdad? >> y nosotros comemos. como se le llama al ayudante? >> el pinche. >> cuÁntos ingredientes? >> queso,pollo chile, guacamole. >> son de harina, pero pueden ser de maÍz? >> claro. >> manos a

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