mr. carlson. >> public: i want to congratulate you on this legislation that you passed in 2016 is indeed model legislation for cities all around the country and indeed all around the globe. that's a little ironic considering that platform accountability, which has brought us this great success along with the good efforts of mr. guy and his office, platform accountability was at the heart of proposition f. when we brought platform accountability to you and you passed it unanimously, airbnb sued and yet now they praised us as the greatest thing san francisco has ever done. i'm happy everybody is happy. there are still problems with short-term rentals. the hosted and unhosted rentals is still not enforceable. we are concerned about the proliferation of large apartment buildings that are becoming part of airbnb so called friendly buildings program. when you have a hundred buildings and every single one is eligible to be used, seems to be it should trigger some safety concerns. concerns about how the ada applies. those are all questions worth exploring. while we have seen number of listings switched to being available on

. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. city attorney. do i have a motion to not disclose the proceedings of closed session today? >> so moved. >> we have a motion and second and can do that without objection. mr. clerk, is there any further business before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> we are adjourned. >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information seen by whistle blower investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exp

. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. city attorney.o i have a motion to not disclose the proceedings of closed session today? >> so moved. >> we have a motion and second and can do that without objection. mr. clerk, is there any further business before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> we are adjourned. >> good morning and welcome to the wednesday, january 17th, meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. my name is jane kim and i'm joined by our vice chair, supervisor aaron peskin and acting mayor, london breed. thank you to our committee clerk, john carol, and i would like to acknowledge jessie lawrence who who -- ensure the meetings are available online. >> please make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon will appear on the january 23rd, 2018 board of supervisors agenda. >> can we call item one. >> hearing on short-term residential rentals registration and any need for a -- additional resources. >> i want to acknowledge and thank you supervisor peskin who is the sponsor.

. >> he is mr. city. involved in everything that happens in that city, even when si beats them right there. >>> yesterday supervisor aaron peskin called the board of supervisors to find a replacement for london breed. six members of the board would have to sign off to approve the new acting mayor. so far there is no indication who the caretaker mayor may be. >>> our question of the day has been should san francisco appoint a caretaker mayor or should london breed stay in that role? we see from the poll results, 26 percent say a caretaker memory. 74% say london breed. i don't remember any conversation about a caretaker mayor with ed lee. >> it would take a caretaker too long to get up to speed. london already knows the project that's mayor lee was working on and their status. >> and oscar says it should be up to her if she would like to or not. >> thanks for talking with us and using the #ktvuthe9. >>> coming up, students at the university of washington giving amazon's alexa an upgrade. how you can have a

lazarus: but i thought the city administrator said that that could happen under any circumstance, mr. city zoning administrator. >> mr. zoning administrator? welcome back. >> thank you. >> commissioner lazarus: did you indicate earlier -- i thought i heard you say that you could negotiate with the permit holder regardless of the action that we took here today? >> yes. >> president honda: i think the vice president is just ensuring that there was conversation prior to that. i would support that if you would like to make a motion, unless anyone has something else to put forward. >> vice president fung: i'd like to move to continue this case maybe to the end of february , madam director. >> okay. >> vice president fung: february -march. >> february 28th, is that what you want? >> president honda: that's about as end as you can get. >> commissioner lazarus: can i just ask a question, you, the motion maker? >> vice president fung: i hadn't finished my motion yet. >> commissioner lazarus: excuse me. please continue. >> vice president fung: february 28th? >> that works for the requester? >> vice

city took that to. so. it's pretty simple without shelter people die. so. it's been a few months but. a good person and she is my friend. mr. inside city hall the pressure is on to create more housing. the city has approved a multi-billion dollar strategy to help homeless but it will take ten years to build ten thousand new units which is well below to. get officials refuse to embrace elvis is tiny for me a tiny house on a parking space is not a solution were are doing that this service to those individuals who stayed in these tiny homes without the out of but if a structure in place city council. opposed to tiny houses in his district because of concerns from angry residents. someone monitoring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all it'll be sex drugs and rock'n'roll and. they would absolutely you have to have some rules in place to. see. if they are here why put these guys out back with elvis and the city is clear intense yet again this time at raven and christine's camp right now that load opened up there was a pristine show. that's considered a faulty item so it's going in the dumpster. almost breaking and christin

two hundred and a0 people have been detained today at small rallies in support of mr navalny in a number of russian cities was arrested as he attended a demonstration the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, has been detained in a number of russian cities. mr navalny was arrested as he attended a demonstration supporting a boycott of the presidential election in march, which he claims will be rigged. this was what he had to say to his own online news channel before he was arrested. i was iwasa i was a presidential candidate but first and foremost i'm a citizen, who is not prepared to take any longer. all this nonsense that's been going on for the past 18 years, and to extend this nonsense for another six years. 0ur correspondent, steve rosenberg, has been at the demonstration in pushkin square in central moscow. he is russia's most prominent opposition voice, opposition leader. also the most vocal critic of president putin, and he has been barred from running in the presidential election which takes place in march. the reason, a suspended prison sentence which he and his supporters say is politicall

hundred and forty people have been detained today at small rallies in support of mr navalny in a number of russian citiesalny was arrested as he attended a demonstration supporting a boycott of the presidential election in march, which he claims will be rigged. this was what he had to say to his own online news channel before he was arrested. translation: i'm the head of the anti—corruption fund and i was a presidential candidate, but first and foremost, i'm a citizen, who wants to have normal election and who is not prepared to take, any longer, all this nonsense that's been going on for the past 18 years. and to extend this nonsense for another six years. relatives of a british woman, jailed in egypt for trying to smuggle drugs into the country, have visited her injail in cairo — and say she's doing well. laura plummer was imprisoned last month for three years. she'd been caught entering egypt with nearly 300 prescription—only painkiller tablets. inafew in a few moments, we will have the news. theresa may comes under pressure from leave supporters in her own party over britain's relationship with the e

more electric cars on the street and to come up with new traffic plans for the most effected cities and mrs hennig also said we are on a good track because we have five percent less nitrogen oxide pollution than we had last year and bad outport knows this meeting europe's auto industry which has been under fire. it's very important because the comic is and out of the hook mrs sendek said we are also considering that the fleet in europe has to be refitted and that would be very costly for the comic because now they're trying to do it was the updates on the sofa which is much cheaper but that maybe turned out not to be efficient enough and in the long run the comic is have to come up with another concept because the diesel engine is clearly dying other countries like france and britain for example say we won't have these engines for much longer and electric cars and electric mobility is the way of the future and riegert in brussels thank you europe's biggest software maker says its future is in the clouds germany's s a p announced its buying california based kalidas software for two point fou

mr. speaker, i rise to call attention to a dangerous backlog at the social security administration that is harming millions of americans across the nation, especially in and around the city of philadelphia. mr. boyle: phil delve yans face the lofpkte -- phil delveans face the longest -- phil delvians face the longest delay in the nation where people wait for a basic prelem mayor in hearing. 9,000 americans died last year awaiting an s.s.a. benefits determination. in 1974, we made a promise to thereby for our elderly, blind and disabled americans who have little or no income. they in turn rely upon the social security administration to approve their eligibility and administer these life-sustaining benefits. on monday i led a letter with my democratic colleagues from the philadelphia area and new jersey demanding answers from the s.s.a.'s leadership. today i rise to stand up for the millions of americans who are on their own suffering from a crisis of public service that threatens their ability to afford basic necessities through no fault of their own. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. boyle: i will not stand down until this problem is fixed. a

city. so i did want to say that the purpose of the whistleblower ordinance, according to mr. bush, is to support and help protect the whistleblower and not the city attorney or the city agencies or departments or anyone else. it's for the whistle blower. that's our focus here. i did want to say that you've done a lot of work already on this bill, maybe not you directly, but your staff sat in on those meetings. so you have done substantial meet and confer on this in the draft of 2017 and that the 2017 draft is your agent. and the issue is meet and confer in support of the agent, which is, in fact, the legislation, or the proposal that's going to go to the voters. so you should add those meetings that you've already had or participated in because they're on the list. you've already met now upcoming on the 24th, at least twice with some of these unions. so be sure to include those in theally. -- in the tally. >> good point. thank you. >> it might help people to look at page -- agenda item page 20 of the ordinance under definition. 4.10 sub a. city or city agency, whenever it's re

city. this is what mr. herrera has to say about the same issue. this court has characterized the rath of way rights granted to telephone companies as a limited right. the right of telephone corporations to construct telephone lines in the public rights of way is not absolute. that's from page 18 of his brief. mr. herrera's entire brief is filled with discussions of article 25 and 27, and he says on page 35, that the two are equivalent to each other. i suggest to you that you really don't want to be on the wrong side of what the california supreme court hands down having the information -- having a record with the information that was given to you and the california supreme court going in the way that the city attorney, mr. herrera, is urging them to go. so what i would propose is that you do something like this. either put this on hold, this request -- my request for rehearing until you hear from the california supreme court. if we lose, then we're completely out. if the city loses, we're not going to -- you're never going to see us again. it is t

i think my suggestion was that you ask the city attorney -- >> pull the mic closer, please, mr. bush. >> i think my suggestion was to have you ask the city attorney to update the guide to good government. in terms of what the ftec allows, i talked to them and there's no prohibition on submitting updated forms 700 throughout the year. >> and you're talking about having that in the good government guide so that would just be advisory and a recommendation, right? >> yes. i'm always happier if you could enact it into law and include a death penalty, but -- >> but perhaps in a step towards that, i think what we're hearing mr. bush talk that is the guidance we can provide people immediately to help them understand what the current laws require. just as a note, we are moving into the annual forms ftime fo processing the forms 700, and we can ramp up our guidance to help people with those requirements, so thank you for that suggestion. >> i'm interested, mr. chairman, in what would be a practical and feasible period for changes of the nature described by mr. bush. >> and we can do some f

mr. president. that's a suburb of new york city. i stood with a mother who lost her son to an opioid overdose. a mother should never have to bury her son, especially stephanie keegan whose son daniel was a veteran, served our country bravely in afghanistan, did really well in school but had a duty to country, was in the intelligence unit for awhile , he was so brilliant. he came home, as some do, nerves shattered by war struggling with a severe case of ptsd. stephanie told me her brilliant, beautiful son daniel -- i saw her picture, an all-american boy if there ever was one -- her son daniel waited 16 months for treatment by the v.a., and died two weeks before his first appointment. there are so many things that can be done to change this situation, mrs. keegan said. she's right. we can make a real investment in combatting the scourge of opioid addiction, putting real resources into treatment, recovery, as well as interdiction. we can make a real investment in improving health care at our veterans' hospitals so kids like daniel don't have to wait almost a year and a half before they get the tr

city. if y thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. vice president. commissioner hardeman. >> thank you, mr. president. i'll try to be brief. as we all know, you have family roots in the fire department. you chose to work in the office and not out in the field, so we know your heart's in the right place. the confusing part, and i keep going over this every year -- so this fire department is ordered to keep the stations open as full staffing all the time. that's the biggest part of our budget. so when it says 2.5%, 2.5% has co got to come from a lot of other places except where the largest portion of the budget is going. so how do you deal with that as a budget person for us -- as a financial officer, how do you address that because it's really 5% in some respects because you're cutting so much from everything else. how do you deal with that or do you have a logical explanation? >> i mean, that's one of the difficulties, so the vast majority of our budget is dedicated to front line staffing, as you mentioned, and that's one of the issues that was broug

corruption in africa will also dominate discussions here but it's tough to be skeptical lou with time city and mr. regrowth is. this what good reading. hours until. the african union will name prison muhammadu buhari of nigeria as its first of on to corruption champion for the year two thousand and eighteen it's an endorsement seen as article permission for present biharis efforts in the fight against graft in. all eyes will likely be on this month rwandan president paul kagame it will not only tickle boss chairman of the a huge general assembly but is also expected to use this year of the home to push through the agenda he developed far more independent. money has always been a sticking point at the u. . it now wants to hobbits activities bungled by its members the self financing scheme requires member states to levy a single point two percent tax on illegitimate imports to finance the union but so far just twenty one of the fifty five member states have implemented it. having a predictable financing for our security financing programs and also development programs is a prerequisite which means

mr trump's move. police in the english city of liverpool say they believe a fire has destroyed more than one thousand a multi—storey car park in the city. firefighters had been tackling the blaze at the car park, next to the echo arena on liverpool's waterfront. the fire service say it's the biggest fire they've ever dealt with. it's thought the blaze began accidentally in one of the vehicles. the arena had been hosting an international horse show. around one thousand people and a number of horses were evacuated. no—one is believed to have been hurt. the liverpool international horse show was taking place at the echo arena. all horses were led to safety while the owners ran to the carpark moving the horse boxes. merseyside fire and rescue chief officer said this is probably one of the worst fires merseyside has ever had to deal with. it is an operation that will continue here sometime. it started at 545 and is showing no signs of coming to an end. you can the explosions with the fireworks. technology is giving historians a new insight into everyday life in ancient egypt. researchers at university col

city from the u.k.'s perspective ? >> the question seems to be turning somewhat. mrs. may talking about the importance of the city. ortant to the european union passes economy. theave seen a shift in death the last few days. mr. macron said he fully expects it to be some sort of deal where we had the irish prime minister today tell us, bloomberg television, that he fully expects there to be a special deal because britain is a far -- has got far closer ties to canada. what has difference to been set for the last few months, there is certainly a shift on the european side and from the banks themselves, you are hearing also some changes. a report today said the chief effect, mrs. man that interview referred to the interview she had with the banks, our reports from inside the meeting says that the barclays chief executive actually said to her that it is better to leave the single market than give up control. mark: why is he pivoting? >> there seems to be a bit of a sea change in attitudes. regulation what the is going -- undergoing an banks have come out and said, lining up behind mr. trump, we like what you are doing

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for your new dave brooks it's true mr do the do the city recently that his job in brussels is move even more difficult if every time he makes a small advance for his problems of mind for the b.b.c. . to in order because you do a duty of impartiality. the report was by an organization called civic tasm a amusingly called it the brussels broadcasting corporation and they found that over a long time period ten years up to two thousand and fifteen out of more than four thousand guests who were asked to speak about the european union just a tiny fraction of one hundred thirty two of them were in favor of this but today's report is from the institute of economic affairs and it allies two of the b.b.c.'s key panel political shows if you like so question time and any questions and they found that out of six hundred panelists who were invited over the last eighteen months two thirds of them supported remaining in the european union with just a third of them supporting it and not only that but if you recategorized the people who did support remaining in the european union but are now implementing

mr. magoo. but this city and county is in the brink of having a lawsuit that will stop everything out there in thehe mission bay. out there in everywhere. because in the fillmore, as i coin it, the feel no more, not around no more, and everybody look at me like i'm not around here. i'm alive and direct. 33 seconds, i support ya, i keep that going. just yesterday i had to have the ambulance come pick me up out of the mayor's office. i was assaulted by one of the details that are supposed to be guarding the mayor. can you believe that? ladies and gentlemen, this is a blues break, they say ace you are not a reporter, you don't have -- when i get up and speak it's for the public and giving them information they don't hear from the conservative papers that's obsolete. my name is ace, damn it, and i'm on the case. >> are there any other speakers? all right. public comments closed. is there a motion? >> i'll make a motion to send item seven forth to the full board for consideration. >> passes unanimously. >> eight, resolution improving modification of the lease with the united states of america offices o

it is disingenuous for our senator here in new york city, mr. schumer saying what he is saying. i'm glad they finally figured it out. they were moving forward. that is why they were up last week, trish. trish: markets fortunately cut through a lot of that noise. mary, the noise will keep happening, right? we'll be back here right where we started in another few weeks. >> exactly. things get a bit more serious too. the minute you start having conversations about the debt ceiling, we max out our credit cards and can't continue to fund ourselves, that becomes much more serious especially in the bond market. you have seen this a couple times in 2011. it got really dire, geopolitical things happen outside the u.s. freak people out. internally, if you run the risk of u.s. government defaulting on their bonds, the bond market really has to take that serious. >> i do you think anybody is taking that seriously right now? >> not yet. trish: i know that is worst-case scenario. >> may i answer that question? trish: donald trump ace man who is very comfortable with debt. very comfortable app

have demonstrated in cities across russia in support of calls by the opposition leader, alexei navalny, for a boycott of the presidential election in march. police in moscow detained mrow been released without charge. the bbc‘s steve rosenberg was at the protests and witnessed mr navalny‘s arrest. it isn't easy taking on the kremlin. alexei navalny has beenjailed it isn't easy taking on the kremlin. alexei navalny has been jailed three times in the last year. he has been barred from the upcoming residential election. so today, he called his supporters onto the streets. alexei navalny is russia's most prominent opposition figure and president putin's most vocal critic. he has been barred from running in the presidential election. he has now been arrested by police. this was no softly, softly. we saw mr navalny surrounded by police. seconds later, he was thrown onto the ground. then, the politician vladimir putin cannot bring himself to mention by name, was dragged onto the police boss. his supporters called on voters to boycott the election. all the candidates, they believe, are hand—picked by the kremlin. they are candidates that vladimir putin approved. we do not ha

have demonstrated in cities across russia in support of calls by the opposition leader, alexei navalny, for a boycott of the presidential election in march. police in moscow detained mr as he took part in a rally in the city centre. he's now been released without charge. the bbc‘s steve rosenberg was at the protests and witnessed mr navalny‘s arrest. it isn't easy taking on the kremlin. alexei navalny has been jailed three times in the last year. he has been barred from the upcoming presidential election. so today, mr navalny called his supporters onto the streets. alexei navalny is russia's most prominent opposition figure, and president putin's most vocal critic. he has been barred from running in the presidential election. he is now being arrested by police. this was no "softly, softly." we saw mr navalny surrounded by police. seconds later, he was thrown onto the ground. then, the politician vladimir putin cannot bring himself to mention by name was dragged into the police bus. his supporters called on voters to boycott the election. all the candidates, they believe, are hand—picked by the kremlin. they are candidates that putin approved, and we do not have candi

mr. shipley, i'm from kansas city. we appreciate you coming and sharing an important part of our heritage, our legacy. i just have one question. what was the best part, is the best part about having been a tuskegee airmen? >> the best part is to prove to everybody that we can work together. [ applause ] when i say "we" i'm including black, white, god's rainbow. and that's all different colors. we are here to please the lord and try to serve him. but i really enjoyed that, working together. >> together as one. >> together as one. that's right. >> thank you for your service and the impact that your service had on the country. the nation owes you a debt of gratitude. i was hopeful that you could introduce your dear wife to the audienc audience. >> can you introduce mildred and introduce your children, too? >> okay. yes. this is my wife. stand up and turn around. i've got a daughter in the audience, cynthia. i don't know where you at? >> over here, jim. >> and my son-in-law, earl mcpherson. and i got a niece over there, ar

for you do you believe recruits to mr do the do the city recently that his job in brussels is move even more difficult if every time he makes a small advance that these problems of mine for the b.b.c. are going to actually in order because you do a duty of impartiality. of more let's cross live to london and artie's laura smith laura good to see you so what all these allegations of b.b.c. bias based on so there have been two reports just in the last week which have looked into how the b.b.c. is representing breck's its supporters in some of its programming one of them was released this morning from the institute for economic affairs it has analyzed two of the b.b.c.'s key political panel shows any question time and any questions over the last eighteen months and the results come in and it found that out of six hundred panelists that were invited to these shows just one third of them were in favor of the remaining two thirds were speaking in favor of remaining in the european union and not only that but if you reclassify those people who used to be remain supporters but are now involved

it was labor-run lead city council. >> mr. speaker, for the record, ledes has not signed a contract with carrilian. it's the government that has been handing out contracts. it's the government's responsibility to ensure carrilian is properly managed! between july, mr. speaker, between july and the end of last year the share price of carrilian fell by 90%, three profit warnings were issued, unbelievably, some contracts rewarded by the government even after the third profit warning. mr. speaker, it looks like the government was handing carrilian public contracts either to keep the company a float which clearly hasn't worked or it was just deeply negligent of the crisis that was coming down the line. >> mr. speaker, i am very happy to answer questions when the gentleman asks one. [ cheering ] >> mr. speaker, i have asked if they've been negligent or not and they clearly have been very negligent. though they might shout, mr. speaker, but the reality is as of today over 20,000 carrilian workers are very worried about their future a

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mr. santos' projects to the city attorney. one of the projects is 214 state street. the planning department says they have seven of mr. santo's protons under review. i suggest that your planning commission have your attorney update you on the cases and ask your director of planning to discuss the status seven santos projects. you have copies of my sunshine request. i handed out a list of the 11 root causes of unpermitted construction and demolition if san francisco. that i presented at the november 2017 building inspection commission meeting. false or bogus plans is on the list as well as the planning department's notice of enforcement programme that does not assess penalties and fines. this also makes no sense. many of the commissioners in the november 2017 meeting suggested a joint meeting with the planning commission to tackle the root causes of unpermitted work. i suggest you talk with the excellent planning department employees who staff the kiosk on the first floor of d.b.i. to better understand the type and frequency of violations they see every day to understa