>> mr. chu well, steven chu has said it's his fault and he's taking the blame some i guess if you follow up he might resign. would you rather he be burned at the stake? >> prediction? >> prediction is the -- justice department took the health care ruling from the supreme court because they're nervous they won't be in office. >> he's trying to distract you. he wants you to pull your prediction. >> i know. >> what is your prediction? >> after his very public flirtation this week, new jersey governor chris christie decides he is not going to enter the race. >> the property problems in the united states will resolve in the drop in the hispanic community of obama by 30 points. >> kristi will not run. bye-bye!

what is the thought if mr. chuquite-- at least have the decency to be be embarrassed and apologetic, instead he was shovelling out more money on the same kind of loan program, outrageous. >> paul: bret. >> first time a hit to al-qaeda, yes, the world's most evil terrorist organization rebukes ahmadnejad and president of iran for calling the 9/11 incident at his u.n. speech the other day, mysterious. and yet, al-qaeda has no patience for 9/11 truthers, they work very hard on killing 3000 americans and they want to take full credit for it. i think if al-qaeda has been this definitive we should take their word for it. >> paul: all right, matt. >> there's joy in baseball america, perhaps everywhere except boston over the return of the curse of the bambino, the boston red sox capped the worst slide in baseball history, and the playoffs up by nine games. crawford dropped the ball in the outfield and bambino was babe ruth and traded in 1920 and the red sox didn't win a world series until '04. and now the boston sox fans k

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. - supervisor chu captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor campos: good morning, everyone. we may want to change the finance committee label on the television. this is the sentences go county transportation authority plans and programs committee. [unintelligible] we have been joined by commissioner david cheiu. we want to thank the members of the rest of titis -- as a tv step for joining in the meaning. >> item #one. -- item #two. approve the minutes of the september 20, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor campos: if we can take that, without objection? can the clerk please call for item number three? >> item #3. citizens advisory committee report. supervisor campos: 90. >> [inaudible] there are three items. cac at it's last meeting reported on 7 items. item #4, before us today, bicycle-related requests. in item #6, the update on the central subway. let me say

chu: thank you. a quick question for mr. updike. i noticed that this grant agreement went into effect, and subsequent to as being there, we decided we needed additional medications to this space. were there programmatic changes that occurred midway through or is this something we had anticipated? >> as i understand, it is a case of a slight change in program and a slight change in the need for additional security issues to be addressed. these might have also been program issues beyond human services. they are responsible to other agencies. i think phil can speak more directly to that. >> good morning. we had two major changes in the way we do business at this facility. this results from moving the state fair hearings from the fox plaza to this location, which actually saved us some money because we incorporated those hearings into an existing conference room. however, in doing that, we had a great a barrier, or we feel is spreading to create a barrier between the public who come to the fair hearings and our staff that were behind th

i know the secretary of energy, mr. chu had indicated the senior loan officer jonathan silver was an outstanding loan officer. savanna 90 think a lot of us have very to earn. so we will have this hearing and without i recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey for five minutes. >> fhs you a few straightforward business questions give us say you are considering a loan guarantee for a come any in the price of the product sells has declined by 63% over the last several years, including more than 20% in f

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? hat completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and instill the spa

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. $40,000 of this will go to 20 existing businesses. it's this is like a dragon house. -- businesses like dragon house. [applause] others that have been identified. i want to thank ellen and debt been played -- that the little. that is right. al harris and others that have worked in the exocet ashcelsiorn group for so long so that we can make a difference. we want these grievance to make a ground level difference. that is why paying attention to everyone here. it is a struggle of a lot of our commercial corridors right now, so that is why the work we have been doing in mid-market, the experience we are bringing out there with the arts programs and business loans we want to do right here to help out as well. i also want to thank mary and flemings from family connections. thank you for being here. -- maryann flemings. i also want to thank beth rubenstein from out of sight. thank you. you are in our collaboratio

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. >> around me what you see is an exhibition bien asian american women artist association. one of my favorites is cheers to muses which is a variety of sculpture, paintings and photographs in which the artists not only show their own work but talk about the muses who inspired them. coming up we have a variety of exhibitions celebrating diversity and performances and every first thursday we have an opening in our main gallery. >> what kinds of organizations utilize your affordable space progr program? >> there's a huge range. last week des president clinton divas had a drag fashion show. the united states of asian american festival has events here every career as does the national career arts festival. in recent years homies organizing the empower youth had one of their first large scale neighborhood events. >> i think of it as multi-generational i see artists who are emerging and young and community members that may

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? hat completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales

it is so hypocritical of you to criticize mr. chuhe you not only voted for, but gave contributions to our governor and pleaded guilty at stealing $1.7 billion from the taxpayers of the state of florida. the lieutenant governor is right on the verge of being indicted for charging me and you for $375,000 on a building that don't exist. host: can you respond? guest: in this case, he is making the charge that gov. scott had these problems with medicare, and he had all ultimately -- ultimately he did leave the company, and he did have to restore money, but the calller is making that comparison. i have no jurisdiction over the area that the governor was involved with. i did not know anything about the governor's position, other than he won the governorship of the state. i'd think he is doing a good job. i think the calller is making the comparison that the people of florida decided they wanted that governor, and wanted gov. scott to be our governor, so i respect the people who voted for him. host: tim, a democrat from morocco, indiana. --

supervisor chu: thank you so much. mr. young, are there any other items before us? hat completes the agenda items. supervisor chu: thank you, we're adjourned. >> welcome, and regretted. i am the general manager of san francisco's recreation and park department. i want to thank everybody for joining me today for the official rollout of park wide by crystals. it will be at five sites throughout the city. hopefully this is the launch of what will eventually be a part- by-park and maybe some day a street corner-to-street corner of by sharing. this is a new park amenity that will allow the opportunity to rent a bike at one city park and actually ride to another and drop it off. we're thrilled. imagine somebody renting a bike in union square and taking a ride into a beautiful golden gate park, coming to see the incredible academy of sciences in front of us, and then taking the bus home. it all works perfectly. we're thrilled. this is a partnership. it is really a win-win all the way around. it will be easier for residents and visitors to get out and to buy it and see the c

but i would say mr. chu, thank you for your service. we're going to present you with a medal.ne has got to be accountable at a very high level. and mr. silver has had a distinguished career in private business. he didn't even make this decision and this guy has gone down. let's go higher! >> they're trying to get memos and trying to get the president's blackberry messages. that's how serious they're getting. >> bad mistake or something really wrong? let's not have government by roulette. >> thank you very much, peter. we're probably going to be talking about this again. terrifying moments aboard an american airlines flight. you got a saudi man who tried to storm the cockpit. up next, the man who stood in his way! then, celebrating 15 years on the air. we take a look back at the very first fox report along with s p shepard smith. he was 11 years old. the best approach to food is tkeep it whole for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the otr guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole wh

the secretary of energy, mr. chui think a lot of us are very concerned. so we will have this hearing, and with that i recognize the gentleman from massachusetts, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. grippo i want to ask you a few straightforward business questions. say you're considering a loan guarantee for a company and the price of the product that this company sells has declined by 63% over the last several years, including by more than 20% since february, without knowing anything else about this company, does that sound like a relatively high risk or low risk project? >> i'm sorry. could you restate that? i want to make sure i understand. >> the product drops 63% in 20 years and 20% since february. a high risk or low risk? >> if the price of their product is falling? >> yes. >> assuming that the costs of the company are not commensurately falling, that would have risk to it. >> what the same company's business model was predicated on the demand for the product increasing but people were just not buy

it is so hypocritical of you to criticize mr. chu, he you not only voted for, but gave contributions to our governor and pleaded guilty at stealing $1.7 billion from the taxpayers of the state of florida. the lieutenant governor is right on the verge of being indicted for charging me and you for $375,000 on a building that don't exist. host: can you respond? guest: in this case, he is making the charge that gov. scott had these problems with medicare, and he had all ultimately -- ultimately he did leave the company, and he did have to restore money, but the calller is making that comparison. i have no jurisdiction over the area that the governor was involved with. i did not know anything about the governor's position, other than he won the governorship of the state. i'd think he is doing a good job. i think the calller is making the comparison that the people of florida decided they wanted that governor, and wanted gov. scott to be our governor, so i respect the people who voted for him. host: tim, a democrat from morocco, indiana. -

>> i've not call for resignation of secretary chu. mr.ilver, who is a top loan officer, i called for his resignation at d.o.e., and he did resign. i think also the ceo of solyndra resigned after taking the fifth in front of me. so let's see what secretary chu has to say. give him a fair opportunity to talk. we are systemic here. this is an it's a-month investigation. we're not jumping off the cliff here. we have continually sought documents and tried to be reasonable, and sometimes they didn't even show up as a witness. they said they're going to be there and didn't even show up. what happens if they get your subpoenas, which is a grave step, and they say, no, or they give you some documents but not what you're looking for? >> obviously they could claim executive privilege, and i respect that that's part of the constitution. we'll take the next step if we thought it was that serious. i don't think the president wants to go there because this is something very simple to answer. did his top as advises get involved, get briefed on solyndra,

supervisor chu: thank you. mr. rosenfield. >> good morning. controller. unfortunately, i am not going to spare you a presentation today. i have a brief overview of the four pieces of legislation before you. i have copies on the's next to me for members of the public who are interested. at a high level, this chart is an illustration of one of the indicators that we have been working as a city to try to improve in recent years. improved financial planning policies and practices can lead to the city, from my perspective, doing a better job of managing long-term trends in our budget. so we have a percocet -- a perfect record as a city of adopting in maintaining balanced budgets, but that often comes at a pretty dramatic effort year- over-year. you can see that on this chart, which provides a high-level summary of changes year-over- year and the city's budget and a general fund positions. this looks like economic cycles over the last 13 years in this city, where during times of growth, we grow very quickly. only to find ourselves in the inevitable downturn put

mr. paul gillman and on behalf of supervisor chu and else burn for the late tina -- >> can you put howard grayson for me as well, please. >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. >> is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for the evening. >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful. when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something

mr. paul gillman and on behalf of supervisor chu and else burn for the late tina -- >> can you put howard grayson for me as well, please. >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. >> is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for the evening. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> [roll call] please be advised that the ringing of cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices are prohibited during the meeting. any person responsible for them going off will be removed from the meeting. please be advised that sell phones on vibrate provide interference and be request that they are turned off -- and we request that they are turned off. >> i do have one item of note. may 17, 2011, the board of directors unanimously executed the purchase agreement for the acquisition of property at 900- 93 stockton street in san francisco for the subway project. the purchase price of the property, $6.9 million, assumption of current lease to assume the property owner's property management agreement

mr. paul gillman and on behalf of supervisor chu and else burn for the late tina -- >> can you put howard grayson for me as well, please. >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. >> is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for the evening.

mr. paul gillman and on behalf of supervisor chu and else burn for the late tina -- >> can you put howard grayson for me as well, please. >> thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. >> is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for gentlemen, we are adjourned for the evening. [stomach rumbles] vincent: sounds like you could use some van goghgurt. it's fortified with arts-rich nutrients to improve your math and reading skills... catch! boy: van goghgurt...thanks. so what's the deal with your ear? vincent: always with the ear, huh... announcer: feed your kids the arts. for ten simple ways to learn how, visit americansforthearts.org

let me make a it is so hypocrite tall of you to criticize mr. chu when you not only voted for but gave contributions to our government that pleaded guilty to stealing $1.7 billion you and me the taxpayers of the state of florida. his lieutenant governor is right on the verge of being indicted for charging me and you, the florida taxpayers for $375,000 rent on a building that don't exist. how --. >> host: congressman stearns, give you a chance to respond?xi >> guest: in politics, one day you're a peacock and next day you're a feather duster. in this case he is making the charge that governor scott had these problems with medicare and he had ultimately, he did leave theme company and ultimately he did have to restore some money but the caller is making that comparison. m i have no jurisdiction over that area that the governor was involved with. i don't know anything about the governor's position other than he won th' governorship of the state. i think he is doing a goodhe job. g i think the caller is makin' the comparison, if i'm looking at solyndra,

supervisor chu: thank you, president chiu. if i can ask mr. scott -- to show up?ave served with him on a board as a board appointee to that body, but today, i just want to recognize scott for all of his work on the health service board. he has taught me a thing or two about the work there. in addition to those accomplishments, i do want to speak a little bit about the person behind that. in addition to his role there, he also served formally as the council and general for the republic of rwanda. he was a board member of a company, the director of the nasdaq insurance group, a managing partner, a former director, with several other companies he was at, and he has served on the health service board as an appointee. he has served under many mayoral administrations, under mayor jordan, brown, mayor newsom, and mayor lee, and, of course, he served on that board wellcome as not only vice chair but as chair in many years. he brought with him a significant business experience and really understood what it meant to have to deal with significant budget challenges over the y

mr. rose is satisfied with this change in a reason to doubt -- supervisor mirkarimi: memorializes it certainly helps. motion to except the amendment. supervisor chu: thank you. we can take that without objection. that will be the case. on the underlying item as amended, would that require a continuance? ok. given that on the underlying amendment item as amended, can we take that without objection? great. we will do that. think every much. why don't we return to item number 5. -- thank you very much. >> sorry i was late. thank you for hearing this item. i have with me peter ross from roscoe mitchell advisers who was here when the transaction was done. a -- i have with me peter ross from across mitchell advisers. the transactions that are subject to the legislation were entered into in 200012 into -- 2001 and 2003. the transactions were extremely complicated and were structured to enable equity investors to take certain tax benefits. these were similar to the kinds of transactions that other agencies across the agency were entering into at that time, and encouraged to get some capital into the transit system across the nation. since 2003, however,

captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: a vote, but from to the right to the meeting of -- hello, welcome to the regular meeting of budget and finance. mr. young, do we have any announcements today? >> please turn off also phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card and present it to myself. items acted upon to they will appear on the board of supervisors agenda, october 4, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: please call item no. 1. >> item #one. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant from department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services, and center for mental health services in the amount of $473,485 to fund the primary and behavioral health care integration for the period september 1, 2011, through august 31, 2012. supervisor chu: thank you. we have tony from the department of public health, i believe. >> good morning, chair person, supervisors. good morning on this beautiful day. i am here today to come before you with approval to accept and expand the grant for community behavior health serv

mr. clerk, to we have any other items? >> the completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. 27, 2011. the meeting is now called to order. roll call, please. >> ms. fewer? ms. maufas, dr. marawsy, ms. wynns, ms.men doza, ms. thomas, thank you. >> if you'd like, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. item a is the approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting on september 13. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> any corrections? >> i have one. allison collins name is spelled with one l. >> with those changes, roll call, please. [roll call vote was taken] president mendoza: item b is the presentation to the board from the superintendent. superintendent garcia? superintendent garcia: thank you. it's been a little warm here since the air conditioner hasn't worked all day. if everybody seems shiny, it's probably due to that. anyway, i wanted to point out that -- and it's hot before the meeting, so, anyway. i want the public to know that this -- on september 18, which was a gorgeous, beautiful day, kind of like today, we had a board ret

mr. steven chu ruffner? please sit down.y're plenty of seats in the back in the fire marshal would appreciate people being seated. >> i am with the sierra club. i'm conservation -- and i'm an opposition of the keystone xl pipeline, not only because it violates positions, but because the proposal is against the economic interests of americans, specifically as consumers. the oil economists state that building the keystone xl pipeline would increase the fuel cost of u.s. farmers by $2.6 billion in 2013. including crease food costs throughout the u.s. because these costs are passed through to consumers. -- it would increase food costs throughout the u.s. because these costs are passed through to consumers. therefore the building of keystone xl will increase america's costs by $5 billion. the canadian tar sands oils are set to refineries in illinois and oklahoma. these refiner's play -- paid $15 per barrel less than the global rise because the tar sands is in oversupply. it benefits midwest farmers and consumers. the pipeline is

chu: mr. speaker, i rise today to voice my support for older americans and pledge to protect the program they have paid into, have been promised and deserved. throughout much of the year we have heard how congress needs to cut medicare, medicaid under the guise of deficit reduction. i reject that premise. i do so for dale, the sacramento resident who is 70 years old, recently retired with his wife. ms. matsui: home repair bills started piling up. and if this weren't enough, both dale and his wife have suffered deteriorating health which has increased their medical bills to levels they cannot afford. cuts to medicare or social security would, as dale put it, "take from the poorest of the poor." . that is unacceptable. any proposal to meet our deficit must meet the test of protecting our seniors. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> i ask permission to address the house f

chu present. cohen present. elsbernd present. farrell present. kim present. mar present. mirkarimi present. wiener present. mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? supervisor chiu: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communications. supervisor chiu: let's go to our consent agenda. >> items 1 will have 22 come price the concept agenda. these items will be acted on by a single roll call vote. supervisor chiu: i understand our deputy city attorney would like us to receiver out item number one. are there any other items to receiver out? >> item 8, please. supervisor chiu: if we could take a roll call vote on its 1-2 without 1 and 8. >> campos, eye. chiu eye. chu eye. cohen eye. elsbernd eye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye. mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: those ordinances are finally passed. item 1. >> ordinance amending the strnls administrative code to create a recreation and parks gift fund. update the medicare emergency relief fund, changing the