i have gotten to know mayor nutter.e's been to meet demand for and is one of our great national leaders. mayor nutter. >> maker cory booker, thank you very, very much and responding to the comments made earlier i want to say mr. and mrs. booker, may hear booker read what he read exactly the way i wrote it. [laughter] i greatly appreciate you working with him, he is a great mayor in our country. thank you also it is a pleasure to be on this panel and so all of my fellow mayors have come here this morning and a director of human capital investment and alexander from the legislative affairs and community of reach office we are delighted and honored to be here to talk about the most important issue facing the united states of america as mayor booker laid out with regard to comments made by general town. philadelphia and the public schools i will tell you up front the mayor of philadelphia does not run the public schools, but from my perspective at least they are my children, they are in our city and i have a responsibility

and i wonder as a mayor, mayor nutter and dr. buechner, if you could actually speak to the problem that that presents to our municipalities and to our states and to the private sector in terms of planning for the long term when with it comes to new starts, when it comes to these big projects like the bridge projects where you need to know whether there's a federal commitment or not or it doesn't get put on the table. and i think it might cause some in the republican majority to actually rethink this idea of funding transportation and infrastructure in snippets at a time when our competitors are not doing that at all. >> very briefly, no one has ever financed the construction of the first two floors of a 20-floor building. you're either building the building, or you're not. all 20 floors. you get your financing lined up, and this is what we're going to do. i have a annual capital budget, and i have a six-year plan. so i know six years down the line what we're doing, what we're planning to do at least, and you run the city that way

our first speaker this morning is a philadelphia mayor, michael nutter. he is the second vice president of u.s. conference of mayors. since he took office in 2008 he has made education, public safety and jobs his top priority and has delivered and brought about significant change. he has committed the city and philadelphia school district to increasing school graduation rate by 50% in seven years and double in college payment rates in five to ten years. the office of education released a two year study that showed the mayor's office to increase graduation students from high school and create more educated city in which all citizens have the opportunity to reach their potential and the findings of the report say that since january of 2008 the school district i school graduation rates have gone up words including a 3% increase in four year and six your graduation rates. the report shows to help students drop out of school, in new small school and innovative programs. and for coming years, focusing on increasing philadelphia's who have the opportunity to att

thank you, mayor nutter. >> mayor miner, thank you for a much. to the folks of syracuse, obviously think the timing right because they clearly picked the right person and you got there as soon as you could. so that makes all the difference. let me now introduce mayor wayne smith. mayor smith has promoted an agenda for the rebirth of the township of irvington. he was elected the 20 of my year may of 2002. his entire council candidates known as fema irvington was also elected feeling the mandate for his leadership. mayor, if you would like to share that concept with the rest [applause] [laughter] >> never mind. he was elected to an unprecedented third term in office. stevens might embark on the journey and his participation in the male mentor program that was launched in newark new jersey this year. the initiative is the capacity to build men from the faith based community engaged in mentoring young boys. mentor recruit, reclaim and restore is certainly something i am personally support about as well. let's hear for mayor smith about his -- about t

department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown.or being here today. [applause] now on with the program. when phil told me he invited the speaker of the california state assembly to swear him in, i looked at him and said, are you kidding me? the governor is introducing his budget that we, sessions that week, there is no way he is driving down to san francisco for you on wednesday night. but it sure enough, here i am. i am not sure that bill asked me to introduce him, more so as payback for being the naysayer. we are so happy to have you here. i get to call you john, because this was before he became speaker. i first met john in 2008. bill said to me, my college friend is in town running for a board office in l.a.. we found ourselves having breakfast one morning. i thought, we are going to spend the entire breakfast talking about his candidacy, who was going to win. this is too much for a saturday morning. but sure enough, at one point, he stopped talking about the campaign and just started playing with our daughter isabella, who was

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you for the presentation, director nutter. i have a few questions for you. you had mentioned 0.1% of the contributions that the recycling center contributing in terms of the overall diversion. the overall rate of all of the center's together? >> 5% of the diversion rate. supervisor mirkarimi: to anyone, including myself, 0.1% would seem like a minuscule number. taking that on scale, the recycling center is probably one of the largest independent centers. saying a lot with regards to the smaller contributions. and what it would take to compensate for the loss of that one -- double -- loss of that 0.1%. >> one of the challenges in san francisco, at one point we had 30 crv recycling centers operating and now we have 19. what it has done has concentrated the recycling activity. what we are actually looking to do, pushing out into the community, it is true that we are operating one of the largest neighborhood recycling centers, not counting the third three -- third street centers. that has been a challenge. which is interesting, be

michael nutter was talking about what he wants to do for college ready kids. >> there are lots of ways to do it. mayor villarosa is trying to do creative things. mayor johnson is working hard to have an impact. the more you are rallying the entire city behind these efforts the business community and philanthropic community and nonprofit social-service agencies i don't think school districts can become world class by themselves. we need outside support and pressure and i can't think of anyone better to rally the community behind these efforts than a years. that is hugely important. think of early childhood education as the best long-term investment we can make. it is easy in tough budget times to cut back on pre-k because you won't see those results tomorrow but that is the wrong cut to make. by high-quality child could education, huge the important. it is desperately important that we continue to attract talent into education so great teachers, great principles, attracting them and retaining them and putting in place the incentive structure is to get the best talent to be underserved c

. >> michael nutter, mayor of philadelphia. >> gastonia, north carolina. >> schenectady new york. >> des moines, iowa. >> macon, georgia. >> mesa, arizona. >> davenport, iowa. >> charlotte, north carolina. >> jackson, mississippi. >> little rock, arkansas. >> city of trenton. >> mirror of the city of miami, florida. >> newton, massachusetts. >> thank you for being here this morning. e are here as amymayors representing cities. where does the town of us we aren't disappointed about the committee devilment block grant that is being cut. there are other crimes that are critical to cities that are also on the cut list. we take great exception to the community development block grant. this program was promulgated under president richard nixon. this program comes directly to cities for us that control of the funds and to ensure that the funds are used for those folks who most need them and help with projects for the people who are in need of housing. whether that is affordable housing, section 8 housing, and so forth. creates jobs, not just for people with in city hall, but for the private

have raise our voices and with that i am going to also call on our second vice president, michael nutteriladelphia. mr vice-president? >> thank you very much and to all mayors who are here, all the members of the u.s. conference of mayors. i can only think of one word to describe what the house has done, outrageous. outrageous and unacceptable. it is an american. it attacks senior citizens. attacks children and working people. it stops jobs and economic development. cities all across the united states. i have no idea what is going on in the minds of some who have gotten elected on rhetoric and are trying to govern with the same rhetoric. you cannot run a country while attacking its own people. certainly that should not be going on in the united states and that is what it is all about. it attacks programs for seniors. attacks programs for children. it takes and takes desperately needed funds away from the ones who need it the most. this is literally an american what is going on. the u.s. conference of mayors will not stand for this activity and we have to do a better job of educating memb

have raised our voices and with that i'm going to also call on our second vice president, michael nutter, from the great city of philadelphia. mr. vice president. >> madam president, thank you very much. and to all of our mayors who are here, all the members of the u.s. conference of mayors, i can only think of one word to describe what the house has done with h.r. 1. outrageous. it's outrageous and unacceptable. h.r. 1 is un-american. it attacks senior citizens, it attacks children, it attacks working people, it stops jobs and economic in cities all across the united states of america. i have no idea what is going on in the minds of some who have now gotten elected on rhetoric and are now trying to gonch with that same rhetoric. you cannot run a country while attacking its own people. and certainly that should not be going on in the united states of america. and that's what h.r. 1 is saul about. it attacks the cd fwnch g program, it attacks programs for seniors, for children. it takes and takes and takes desperately needed funds away from the ones who need it the most. this is literally