mr. harvey rose in advance. [laughter] because i know that our cooperation will be integral to continuing the good cooperation we have had with the board of supervisors, and to make sure we make adjustments accordingly and to make sure we have a continued effort to have a balanced budget. thank you for your continued cooperation. [applause] i want to thank the great parents of our kids. as we look forward to making sure that our budget is not only balanced but continues to reflect the values of the city, the futures of the city. i have enjoyed working with you on this budget, and as we have met individually, we have the future of the city our hands, and i will continue enjoying working with you to make sure that that future is bright, that we have a great foundation for this, and that we keep the city family type. to all the apartments, thank you again for working with me. to all of the elected officials for all of your support, and to the audience and members of the public, i never grew tired of all these budge

mr. harvey says he has a lot of radical ideas knocking around in his head and he'll be ready to roll them out in january. >>> she's received national attention, but her issues are very local and very serious. just six months on the job and jean kwan has tackled a budget crisis, police layoffs and crime. her style, hands on. much different than her predecessor, former may your rob dellhams. cheryl hurd goes in depth to find out what happens when the honeymoon is over. >> reporter: in the middle of it all, mayor jean kwan is at the help. >> perform the duty of office as mayor for the city of oakland. >> i do. >> reporter: she's the first asian and female mayor oakland has had. >> a reporter friend of mine blurted this out in the press conference and i was annoyed. he said, are you tough enough? and i'm like, hey, i beat one of the toughest politicians in the state, was outspent by millions of dollars, how could you ask me that question? >> reporter: she has been very visible in the past six months, and she's been busy. >> we hired a new city administrator. but probably the most important th

harvey rose, 320 pages response put together by walt and myself. a great deal of that response, which goes point by point through mr. rose's remarks, includes the documentation for the justis effort. from the beginning of the reorganized effort in 2003, we have documented every process, every decision, every dollar spent. i completely understand your request for specificity about the budget. that is not my area of expertise. but i can tell you, it is not correct that justice is tens of millions of dollars over budget. more than that, our problem is, we have not been able to spend the budget because we have not been able to get staff at dt who are prepared to many of the tasks required to bring the system forward faster. for example, the sheriff's department finished it jail management system in 2007. it was not until late 2009 that we're actually able to bring it alive. took that long for the hub to be completed. during that time, there was not very much money spend, because our system had been budgeted for and completed. there was not staff to complete the hub. that has plagued the project more than the mismanageme

harvey m. rose associates, thereby extending the term of the agreement from january 1, 2012 through december 31, 2013. supervisor chu: thank you very much, mr. clark. again, all items on the agenda had been called, and they are all related to the budget. -- thank you very much, mr. clerke. we have for our day-to-day a couple of departments that had not yet reached agreement with our budget analyst last week, so we will be bringing those departments back up today. why don't we start with the department economic and workforce development? since we did hear from you last week with regard to the general direction of the department among other things, if we could just concentrate on the budget analyst recommendations and where you are with those? >> yes, good morning. director of the office and economic workforce development -- we work diligently with the budget analyst over the last week, and i am pleased to say that we are in agreement with their recommendation. there is one recommendation that i believe is memorialized in their report to you that we have for the negotiated since it was published, and i believe we have agreed that it will be w

mr. mayor, thank you for spending time with us in this very unusual -- it's the first time i have done an interview in a harveyn place. >> i am dieing to drive one of them. >> should i put yes or no on your getting in? >> betting is illegal, interestingly. >> i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we have more with rudy guiliani on the website, including the reflections on the 10-year 9/11 anniversary. >>> up next, the town hall showed republicans how hard it could be to beat him. members of the american postal worker's union handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn't run on your tax dollars. it's funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of the american postal worker's union. i don't even know anymore. [ tapping ] well, know this -- for a good deal on car insurance, progressive snapshot uses this to track my good driving habits. the better i drive, the more i