mrs. lee is here.ughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purchaser, director of purchasing. before that, one of the most difficult task, kind of reminds me of my dpw day is, she had a difficult task of being the director of the taxicab administration. [laughter] so she has earned some strides there. going on to director of purchasing and becoming deputy city administrator. most recently, and acting city administrator. and now my nominee for city administrator for the next five years, naomi lelly. -- kellyl. [cheers and applause] ayman >> to first and foremost to thank her family who have been part of her life. throughout this time, she even raised a family and keep harlon and kelly ou

lee. big welcome. mr. mayor, please join us. mayor lee: good morning, everyone. welcome to san francisco. thank you for being here. wonderful place to be. as i just was listening to brad, you have an awful lot on your agenda today, but it is exciting to be here. exciting to be the mayor of san francisco when we are on the verge of working so well with our technology companies. it is very appropriate for you to be here in san francisco, evil and digital media and blending that with marketing and advertising. i think you have the the right place to be here, and i hope to be here for another 16 years. for this conference to be here and for me joining, whether i am the mayor or not, i think it is exciting to be part of this effort. i have been the mayor for a very short time, but i learned very quickly how important and how valuable the technology world is to how we do business in our city. not just because i announced it during my campaign and put out the 17-point plan and economic growth plan for our city that involved an but right there the technology and innovati

, mrs. lee, and honored guests, for 50 years, the sounds of tony bennett and his rendition of "i left my heart in san francisco" has said to the world that this city by the bay is the capital of love, beauty, and a unique style that made it one of the plan its tourist destinations. mr. bennett, your voice is the voice of san francisco, and this is your day. [applause] we have a fantastic program for you today. we have some local singers inspired by mr. bennett's career, and they will pay tribute to mr. bennett in song. tony bennett, your dedication to young people is known through countless projects such as your exploring the arts foundation and your founding of the frank sinatra school for the arts. you have proved to be a timeless link between artistic generations. and, of course, your inspiration continues with such incredible and wonderful projects as your recent "duets ii" cd. i have a copy. anybody else? [applause] and check this out, mr. bennett picked up two grammy awards sunday night fo

providing it your testimony and public input to the current draft map, and at this time if i could have mr. lee, we are going to approach mapping and what we may or may not decide to do moving forward with this particular agenda item. in the past when we have not had all nine members of the task force, we have had to consider if we would do line drawing. chrir mcdonald said he would ask they consider not drawing lines tonight, so i wanted to invite taskforce members on their preference. even if we decide to not do line drawing, i would like has force members to listen herriot's they would like to continue to inquire about -- to list stereos -- areas they would like to continue to inquire about. i will open its to up. >> my concern tonight is both of our members who are not here have not heard what was said to night. we did, and unless they would be willing to look through the minister'utes for the last two meetings, it would be very difficult to respond to issues that have come off without having the right information, because we have heard different information, and i am extremely concerned ab

thank you jason, mayor lee, mrs. lee, general gao. connecting people across the world. while most people think of that with a phone or a mobile phone, which also connect people through events like this, through the sponsorship of a beautiful dragon boat i can see lit up up there. that is gorgeous. we threw the switch on early tonight. thank you so much for letting us be part of your celebration. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, and think at&t for your continued commitment to our communities. finally, we have the chair of the asian amer

mr. lee, you are saying that you do not think -- it is not conclusive, the impact on the unit's production based on the feed the furlough program. understanding that if it is a disincentive -- >> exactly. we value the on site p.m. areb -- mr's as part of the on site portable housing production. they are a part of getting the units quicker. you do not have to try to leverage the additional sources. at the same time, we were not quite sure if this program created extra incentive for people to be out where they otherwise would have done on site development. there are all kinds of construction tides and maybe the notion of luxury housing regardless of the structure might be sort of the delineating factor on whether the developer ' comes out or not. those of the things i am trying to take a look at. that kind of luxury of inclusion their units is built into the very high age away's. units are built into the limits of homeowners to adjust, which might change at a greater rate. as well as how any fe

. >> in reviewing the 2000 work, the work of the 2000 task force, and as mr. lee pointed out their elegant presentation, what -- i can't get my brain around is this would suggest that they tracked the domino affect a particular decisions. so was that the action that caused you to do something or was that the lake street action? rather than trying to frankly figure that out or retrace steps, i guess i am of the opinion in this moment that we actually stay consistent with the proposed format which is to do them all and represent the recognized neighborhoods that we have kept intact because we did not change them at all or because we did do some changes and the result was they are where they are in each district. that would be my recommendation. >> if i may. >> you may. >> the thought exercise that might be useful in considering whether it would be feasible to replicate the approach or adopt the approach that the 2000 task force took is to review our map and see whether we can identify, not an exhaustive list necessarily, but for the purposes of justifying why the de

and mrs. leeet in what was then a still fairly depressed neighborhood, with a loan from a korean business association established for the purpose of helping immigrants get a foothold in their new adopted country. part of every dollar they earned in that store then went to pay off the loan and to contribute to the loan fund. the lee family lived in the apartment above the store. they worked every single day from morning to night. when i talked with mrs. lee she had not bought a new pair of shoes in five years. when their sons graduated the university of maryland, they borrowed from the same fund to open a store in an even more depressed neighborhood on good hope road down in southeast. i went there and found it to be well stocked. i learned the goods came from a korean wholesaler. i went there up in northeast d.c. and learned they had just bought a ship to bring in their goods from overseas. in other words, through discipline, delayed gratification, a focus on self-help, and enterprise, those forei

be sure that the first plots were right in mrs. lee's rose garden so that you would bury people, including his own son, who died in virginia in 1964, ratepayer beside mrs. lee's back door because he didn't want her average eating that she could come back. davis as they say never returned to washington d.c., never saw the completion of his work. he was in prison immediately after they were in fact i think a little over a year under suspicion of having orchestrated the assassination of lincoln, which he had nothing do with. he was eventually released on video and never be imprisoned. at one point, his wife wrote a letter to meigs, asking if it would be possible for them to meigs two nics though she could send this letter and threw it at that point. meigs it over and said forget old times sake, he had no time for this. in 1875, the speaker of the house of representatives for the letter to meigs, saying that he thought the united states is getting too big again and need to have more additions put onto the capital. what the meigs name? meigs

mr. lee said -- he became the mayor because of the memory of dr. martin luther king. i think dr. martin luther king with think that many of these things are deplorable. in 2012 -- he would look down upon us and try to fight for people -- and human rights. i know many of you would agree with me that the things people see in the shelters are deplorable. a lot of people who are under age -- or who are younger, they are going through the same things as the older people, and so -- is great that there was a great presentation, how this really goes down. people are not having their needs met. and it is about time in 2012, dr. martin luther king passed away in 1968 and this is 2012. this should be a little bit better. we are the united states. this is not a third-world country. if we were to go to war, what everyone meet everyone in the united states? people would not say, he is homeless and should not be drafted. everyone should work together and make the united states a better place to live for everybody. >> thank you, an angel. >> thank you, and god bless you. >> hello. about six or e

i brought into your office on behalf of mr. lee's organization last week. >> are they dated january 12? >> they are dated january 12, 2010. >> than the date was not changed. they are different than the plans with the permit. >> ok. is there any departmental comment? is there any public comment? seeing none, commissioners, the matter is submitted. president garcia: this has been looked at by both dbi and planning? it is sick to think that you think any -- that you think it is fine? is there a motion? commissioner fung: the appropriate motion would be to grant the appeal and condition it upon the adoption of the plan. >> right. to modify the permit as reflected. commissioner fung: so moved. >> if you would call the roll on that. >> we have a motion from commissioner fung to grant this appeal to condition the permit with the adoption of revised plans. pages a1 and a3. on the motion to grant, all told, and modify the permit with these plans -- president garcia: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. commissioner hurtado: aye. >> this permit is m

mr. lee said -- he became the mayor because of the memory of dr. martin luther king. i think dr. martin luther king with think that many of these things are deplorable. in 2012 -- he would look down upon us and try to fight for people -- and human rights. i know many of you would agree with me that the things people see

. >> mr. lee:. >> whitt johnson reporting tonight, thanks. >> the experts are still going over yesterday's job reports which showed unemployment 8.2 percent in march, down a tenth of a point but the numbers of new jobs dropping to just 120,000. so it is behind the shifting economic climate, tony guida takes a look. >> many economists look at the nation's unusually warm winter and wonder if there is a message blowing in the balmy wind. better weather led to better business and better than expected hiring. the economy added more than 200,000 jobs each month over the winter, but the latest number, a sharp dropoff in march asks was the winter recovery real or not the warm weather in january and february with boosted hiring and created an he illusion the economy is doing better than it actually is. >> construction which usually thrives in warm weather, did not. over the winter the industry lost jobs, a downward trend that continued in march. retailing shed 34,000 jobs in march. but good news, first tim

through the pouring rain, he got home and mary and the children were sitting down to dinner, and mrs. lee had began to chide him for being late. well, as he began to sit down he seemed to have lost his ability to speak. he didn't know what had happened. he sat down and tried to say the blessing and couldn't speak. he couldn't hardly move, and they described him as suddenly sitting very straight, like he knew that his time had come. so that they hustled him off to his bedroom where he slept for a very long period of time, and then they tried to nurse him back to health. unfortunately, through the haze of history, the best historians have been able to work out lee probably suffered a series of strokes that had eliminated his ability to speak, to expecter to rate, or cough, and he couldn't tell them what they were doing. they were pouring liquids, soups, medicines down this throat and -- some of it was going straight into this lungs and he slowly succumbed to pneumonia over the course of the next few weeks. there's the famous story of his last words being strike the tent. a number of histori

mr. tanker lee knee coming in and suspending the 35 conferences that are scheduled. how are they even scheduled? how didn't you stop those conferences? i'm amazed that with a recommendation from mr. miller that more wasn't done to stop this over the last year. mr. miller, i want to go back to something you said. you're going to be exhausted by the end of this week. i assume all of you will be. i don't know -- i'm a freshman. but i have not seen four committee hearings on any topic yet. but yesterday mr. cummings asked you a question. it took nine months to investigate. were you commune kalting with her regular ri about the progress in the investigation and you replied back, yes we provided information, the briefing and i asked her to get a handle on the rcs travel. you testified to that yesterday. do you -- did you misspeak yesterday or did you misspeak today? >> i must have misspoken yesterday. i specifically told the regional administrator to get ahold of his travel in august of 2011. i did brief administrator johnson in may of 2011 on the interim report. she saw th

and i just point out mr. lee's rather more bullish prediction on the s&p was that we would end the year a big 50 points higher from where we are today. that's not very much in the s&p to 1430 from today's 1382. >> what about that, tom? >> that's right. well i think we are at a crossroads. i think if the market was bottoming here, there is more than 50 points. on the other hand, i think there a descent chance to make a stab towards 1350 bp. that's 80 points. iffer with right about housing recovery, that will add 250 points. so there are drivers to accelerate earnings on the s&p. >> i love your report on cash. and yours at 3.6 trillion under cash, is -- >> correct. >> where do you get that number? >> it is actually, we have to basically go through the 10 ks. we call it the numbers. if you want it look at just industrials only, it is about 1.9 trillion. what is interesting is earnings are about 10% higher than '07. cash balance is 50% higher. companies are generating way too much cash. i think it will end up being dis

mr. tanker lee knee since the conference is the vortex of this problem, what criteria you will use? i know you don't know what you're going to do now in determining whether these face to face conferences serve a legitimate need and how much of the work that's now being done in face to face conferences do you think in light of the priority of the federal government and the administration is putting on teleworking could be done with more teleconferencing. >> i have to say that gsa is already a leader in teleconferencing, moving out on ideas such as webinars. that's one of the things we're asking ourselves to be is more like gsa. to use the technology. dhaj ourselves to use the innovations that have come out of gsa over the last several years and use this to overcome the costs associated with some of the travel for conferences and training. we believe there's huge value in high-quality training, interaction between federal employees who are working on the same areas and ideas. when you're dealing with things like the federal acquisition system, you need to have skilled, trained people

and let's now turn, if we could, first miss joe lee okut and then to mr. jacob akai. joe lee? >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. i would like to appreciate so much the big efforts that you have put to make sure this war come to an end. it has been going on for 26 years. i want to thank senator isakson. when i met you in gulu, i was also touched to see that. and i want to thank mary for the passion you have to ensure that the children who are still suffering at the hands of joseph coney get rescued and also get a second chance like the way i am right now. and i want to thank the u.s. government so much for being involved and putting this agenda on top of all the other issues that they have. it means a lot to ask. that has shown that there is a lot of love for the people, especially the people of northern uganda, central african republic, and democratic republic of congo. i want to share my personal story that i grew up in northern uganda, and from day one, when this war started i saw it as it transitioned to what is now called the lra. and i lost my teenage to this war. i could

mr. tanker lee me that he have centralized most of the operation? >>. >> well, as you can tell from my supplemental statement, that is the direction we think gsa should go, but how gs app is managed is essentially an agency function and is at the discretion of the administrator. it's a little out of my lane. >> i'm going to ask. so given the recommendations of the inspector general that there be more chicago and balances and more centralization, what's your take on it at this point, mr. tangherlini. >> i already with only a couple of weeks of experience with the organization already have strong indication that we need to centralize certain functions. late last week is, i took steps administrative steps to centralize the finance function so that our chief financial officer of the general services administration actually served in that will capacity straight out to the regions is, as well. from what i understood, the regions had some autonomous ability to once their budgets were allocated spend within those allocations. so one of our initial moves is

lee. a lot of this comes down to, if we're going to assess the commander's abilities, mr. wayne, come in. the question then becomes what's the criteria one uses for that. now, does anyone in your readings think that lee has no merits as a general whatsoever? does anyone say lee is terrible to everything? it's a rhetorical question. no. so what is the consensus even -- and in your readings who is the critic? which guy? historian. the one -- i had you read it for monday, remember? is gallagher a critic of lee? no. he gives you all the critics then what does he say about them? he says they're wrong, right? he goes through them. russell wiegly criticizes him but what good things does he say about lee? what do you mean by that? >> very aggressive. typical west pointish general. >> okay. all right. so everyone agrees that lee's sort of positive traits, aggressiveness. so what are some examples of that being a good thing? >> that would be instead of like sitting back to face it, he moved forward and attacked or moved on -- >> all right. and what happens? who wins? is he successful

mr. mayor, mayor lee, for your leadership on local hire. we are putting san franciscans to work. we are rebuilding san francisco and we're putting san franciscans to work. back in the depression, we had high unemployment. the response from the governor was the new deal. and finding projects to rebuild this country and put people to work. in san francisco, when we had high unemployment, we looked at what we could do with our public works projects and our construction projects to put local residents to work, to make sure that we can actually fuel our local economy by hiring local people. that's what the essence of local higher has been and what it was about. we had a big change. we had to go from good faith efforts of the past to create a mandatory requirement on local hire and change was not easy. i cannot say enough about how much community and labor worked together to make local hire happen. it was the carpenters union, it was the laborers, bright line defense. there were contractors, asian contractorsant latino contractors, contractors large and small to make this legislation h

mr. others. chief lee was saying that zimmerman was innocent. the fax are flowing out it is clear that there was evidence that this guy should have been charged. rather than being charged with manslaughter he was charged with second-degree murder. >> right. one last question. i don't know how much interaction you've had with the prosecution, but was there any discussion about the bloody head pictures? >> no one can deny that there was a major altercation that existed between trayvon and george zimmerman. that's uncontroverted. this kid was fighting a guy who had a deady weapon with him. he had been in a fight for his life. we think we win either way and get a conviction against mr. zimmerman. and the fact that this guy had some blood on his head is no indication--i'm sure if trayvon realized this guy had a gun he better fight and give it all he had to save his own life. unfortunately, this guy thought it was okay that in a fist fight even if you happen to be losing you can pull out a gun and shoot the other person in the chest. that's not how we