department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown. thank you for 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.

michael nutter is mayor of philadelphia. kasim reed is mayor of atlanta, jerry sanders is mayor of san diego, r.t. rybak is mayor of minneapolis. bill white is the former mayor of houston and michael bloomberg is now serving his third term as mayor of new york estimate i'm please to do have all of them here at this im -table to talk about cities and the challenges they face. talk to me about how you see the challenge of being mayor, especially the budgetary decisions and pension reform. >> today cities face the same thing. revenues are down, pensions are up, particularly pension costs. federal government used to give you stimulus money. no longer and no prospect in the future. states have their own economic problem to the extent they're funding cities they've cut back as well. when you look at the biggest thing that most cities have to deal with, it is the pension costs. in new york city our pension costs used to be one and-a-half billion dollar. the reason pensions go up so much is in the public sector, you have defined ben

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

department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown. thank you for 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 isabe

stivers, frank nutter. we represent the reinsurance market. and the point that i made about two suggestions we have made is that if you introduce the private reinsurance market into the program, you've introduced into it the risk assessment mechanism that the private reinsurance market does, which it does routinely for catastrophe risks, for earthquakes and tsunamis and floods and wind storm. and i've made two proposals. one is that the program actually go into the market and seek to lay off risk into the reinsurance market on the basis of a data analysis between the nfip and appropriate brokers. and secondly, there is a pooling mechanism in the existing legislation that's been dormant for 40 years -- 35 years. and while i'm not suggesting it be reinstituted, i am suggesting that it does provide an opportunity for the private sector on a reinsurance basis to participate through a pool with a program, and again, it would have that interaction to the private sector risk pricing, risk assessment mechanism. >> thank you. briefly, that was a pretty

nutter, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. my name is frank nutter, president of the reinsurance association of america. reinsurance is critical to insurers and state-based property insurance programs to manage the costs of natural catastrophe risk. it is a risk management tool for insurance companies to improve their capacity and their financial performance and enhance financial security and reduce the financial volatility. it can serve the same function for the national flood insurance program. as a currently operates, the nfip is not an insurance program, but it should be and it can be. the full application of risk-based rates and appropriate risk-bearing role for the private reinsurance secretary work transform the program. by doing so, the nfip could also achieve the goel of protecting taxpayers and the treasury. it is a commonly held belief that a role in the nfip is unachievable. on behalf 6 our community, we would challenge that suggestion. we commend the chair's discussion draft regarding the protecting tax payers wit

nutter, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. my name is frank nutter, president of the reinsurance association of america. reinsurance is critical to insurers and state-based property insurance programs to manage the costs of natural catastrophe risk. it is a risk management tool for insurance companies to improve their capacity and their financial performance and enhance financial security and reduce the financial volatility. it can serve the same function for the national flood insurance program. as a currently operates, the nfip is not an insurance program, but it should be and it can be. the full application of risk-based rates and appropriate risk-bearing role for the private reinsurance secretary work transform the program. by doing so, the nfip could also achieve the goel of protecting taxpayers and the treasury. it is a commonly held belief that a role in the nfip is unachievable. on behalf 6 our community, we would challenge that suggestion. we commend the chair's discussion draft regarding the protecting tax payers wit

he usually targeted them for financial reasons that he would use his nutter ayittey to write letters to the press and he allied himself with the newspaper editor to promote the cause of former confederates and he was from this very badly divided state of misery which had a civil war within the civil war and he spent his entire civil war as a guerrilla fighting others not invading yankees but fellow missouri. so after the war living in misery in the border states, he freely again was a part of this conflict between local people over the meaning of the civil war and its consequences to be and so his self identity was as a confederate, and he was never discussed in terms of antireal rude populism, agrarian populism and people talk about that time. >> during his lifetime is what i focus on. because people -- jesse james was a cold-blooded murderer took part in the outright atrocities especially during the civil war. and yet he also could be charming and funny and there is a reason why he was popular as well. for example, late in life when he moved back to his old homestead or that area i

. >> thank you, i'm frank nutter and we manage the cost of natural katrina tas trough fema risks. we reduce financial volatility. it serves the same function for the national flood insurance program. as currently operates, the nfip is not an insurance program, but it should be, and can can be. the full application of risk-based rates in a risk bearing role for theerer insurance success tore transforms the program. by doing so, they achieve the goal of protecting taxpayers, and the treasury. it's a held belief that the risk bearing role is unachievable. on behalf of our community, we would challenge that suggestion. we commend the chair's discussion draft regarding protecting taxpayers with risk-based rates. the risks were introduced early in the program as an inducement for communities to come into the program, and it was successful. the number of subsidized properties has risen in recent years. in addition, the rates facilitated the development of a coastal areas including those high risk to flood loss and compromised use of the natural floodplain to mitigate damages. according t

people have stood up, mayor bloomberg from new york city, my great city, philadelphia mayor richard nutter, another member of mayors against illegal guns, also expressed support. i have mentioned vice president dick cheney, of all people, said with it would be appropriate to re-instate a ban on high capacity magazines like we've had before. other public officials and individuals around the country also support this bill. the new york police department had said that a legislative solution to eliminating extended magazines would be best. the president of the alabama sheriff's association is a supporter. the minneapolis police chief is a supporter. palm beach county commissioner, montana secretary of state and president bob brown, an n.r.a. member and hunter who owns 18 guns, supports my legislation. the nurse who treated ronald reagan after he was shot supports this. the fiance and family of gabe zimmerman, one of our own staffers who was killed in arizonaer, support this bill. you know, you mentioned our police officers, bill. and if anybody would be interested in, we've had more police off

nutter sending e-mails to each other and text messages on social networks but doing it within the contextof the social environment that is much more identifiable and they know who the of the people are communicating a lot more readily. so the different way to communicate. and the technology is being driven by a number of underlying technologies aspects that make the industry more and more capable of doing things. computing power of course of your body knows about, but storage power is a big, big part of it. it's really increasing dramatically and getting cheaper all the time. the power, the connections that work system doubling every 20 months or so sweet of from 768% in 2000 to networks that today can deliver 150 megabits right now to people's homes. so it's increased dramatically and will continue going in the direction and especially on the mobil site which is as we get more spectrum and more ability to use it we are going to see more power on the mobile slide. and the way we hectoliter communicate with each other and through computing devices is also changed a lot. if you look at the