president o'brien: commissioner o'conner? commissioner o'conner: what is the location? supervisor mar: it is across from the old alexandria theater. commissioner o'conner: the second is that i just want to show my appreciation that you listen to the voice of the small district -- small-business in your commissioner area. thank you. president o'brien: commissioner? commissioner: i believe that petco did impact is small independent pet stores, and i am very sensitive to predatory pricing by large companies that can offset their higher costs of doing business in san francisco with their lower-cost operations and other jurisdictions, so it is really not a level playing field, and the impact is tremendous, is an impact and often cannot be assessed in three months or six months. sometimes coming 18 months is the time it usually takes for people to change their buying patterns and start to respond to this predatory pricing process, said thank you very much. president abbas ryan pope: commissioner -- president o'brien: commissioner kasselman? commissioner kasselman: -- supervis

commissioner o'conner? commissioner riley? all commissioners are present. commissioners, item no. 2 will be continued until later in the meeting. enemy number 3, approval of the april 11, 2010 meeting minutes, explanatory dowmpts draft april 11, 2010 meeting minutes. president o'brien: do we have a motion to approve the minutes or do we need a minute to study it? >> i need a minute. president o'brien: o.k., we'll give one sec. is everybody o.k. with it? could we get a motion? >> i motion to approve the minutes of the april 11 meeting. >> second broon. president o'brien: any objections, seeing none, approved. secretary: item 4 will be continued until the next meeting. item 5, general public comment, allowing members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commission's purview and suggest new agenda items and there will be public comment taken after each item on the agenda. president o'brien: do we have comments from anybody on matters not on the agenda? seeing none, public comment closed. secretary: commissioners, item 6, discussion of possi

commissioner o'conner: i wanted to applaud the participation and everyone here that came to light. employees, neighbors, pet shop owners from other districts around the city -- it does take a united front. i really appreciate that this coalition has that. i would ask that it is extended to other businesses, not just put shops -- pet shops, but that we stay united as small business owners across various types of businesses. when i look at the presentation from the chain store and see the photos of these vacant properties, they are not vacant because we are lacking big-box pet stores. they are vacant because the video stores are gone, the community video stores, the community clothing stores. all these small businesses have been wiped out by internet businesses. we are providing all these services to the city of san francisco, and paying our taxes. yet there is not a level playing field when it comes to lack of taxes that online stores to not pay for. i just ask that you state -- take time to come to these meetings. we are all busy. but if we care we have to do this or we are going t

. >> reporter: tom o'conner says firefighters are well aware of what happened in the area back in 1995 the last time a firefighter was killed in the fire. extremely high winds spread flames quickly. lieutenant brady carried a hose into the garage when the electric garage door closed trapping him inside. lieutenant perez and vallerio were veterans. >> it looked like they were playing it by the book all the way. and still this happened. i don't know if the flow plan would have helped. they were well aware of the risks going into it. >> reporter: reporting live in san francisco, rob roth ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and you can hear more of the emergency calls from dispatchers during the fire fight on ktvu.com. to find out complete coverage under is sf firefighter tab. >>> right now a storm is moving into the bay area, ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking that storm. looks like it's going to be a wet evening here. >> that's right. rainfall rates will continue to pick up over the next few hours. so far we've had just a few clouds in place. some reports of light rain. here's the radar loo

commissioner o'conner: a couple of questions or points to you, supervisor campos. some people here in the room were involved with the development of the legislation. some much more so than others. i at the time served on this task force the mayor created. i would like to address a couple points going back to that time. i think they are relevant to this time and to making healthy san francisco work as best as possible. i am not sure to what degree you followed it before you became supervisor. the process was ridiculously fast. it was set with a 60 day window of time line by the mayor and supervisor amiano. among the various hearings we have here on this commission, i do not know if any commissioners here were on the commission at that time. there were a lot of hearings here, as well as -- i do not actually think there was much of a hearing at this board of supervisors. various things that i brought up at the time are that the weight it is written we are not going to raise the amount of money we need to provide the spirit or the goal of the program. there were way to

commissioner o'conner? commissioner riley? all commissioners are present. commissioners, item no. 2 will be continued until later in the meeting. enemy number 3, approval of the april 11, 2010 meeting minutes, explanatory dowmpts draft april 11, 2010 meeting minutes. president o'brien: do we have a motion to approve the minutes or do we need a minute to study it? >> i need a minute. president o'brien: o.k., we'll give one sec. is everybody o.k. with it?

president o'brien: commissioner o'conner? commissioner o'connor: , a couple of other comments. thank you for putting the legislation together and addressing an issue that should have been addressed a long time ago. first comment was, ticketing events, perhaps, one line to be drawn is that if people are selling advanced tickets, if it's like billed as a show, it doesn't qualify under this legislation. supervisor mirkarimi: right. commissioner o'connor: so that smaller spaces can gain cheaper access to putting on performances that aren't billed as shows, so to speak. second point was to address commissioner dooley's comment about the time. having experienced putting on shows, i think for the nature of this legislation, 11:00 -- like 10:00 is too early but 12:00 might be too late. 11:00 sounds about right, when a lot of people want to come and see a performance start around 10:00. like you'll have somebody go on before at 9:00 and somebody go on at 10:00 and 11:00 should be fine to end by but that could be addressed further down the road. supervisor mirkarimi: i think we can do th

commissioner o'conner: i will make a motion to approve. president o'brien: all those in favor? anybody opposed? seeing none, the motion carries. next item, please. >> thank you. that was a longstanding problem. >> commissioners, you are now on item 12, a presentation on the sfeda by jenny mcnulty, executive director of urban solutions. >> i see we are the only ones left with you. thank you for spending your monday evenings doing this each month. i am the director of urban solutions. we are one of the nine members of the san francisco economic development alliance. representatives of three of our member organizations are going to share in the public about the work we are doing. just to start us off, i would like to introduce a family g-- emily gasner, executive director of working solutions, and code- share of -- co-chair of sfeda. >> thank you, jenny. i'd like to thank the small business commission for giving us the opportunity to tell you more about the sfeda this evening. we are a coalition of small business assistance organization. our mission is to help low and moderate inc

. >> in closing, lieutenant o'conner remembers vincent perez and tony valerio as men who had every gift, but many years. >>> firefighters came from across the country who filed into neighboring sacred high high school to watch the funeral services. >>> our coverage continues on our website ktvu.com. there we've posted a slide show of today's memorial service. you can also watch more video of the funeral. just look under the sf firefighters funeral tab. >>> the cpuc said pg & e failed to buy enough generating capacity to ensure the reliable operation of their grid. >>> for the second straight week, stocks lost ground. fears of the local economy caused stocks to drop. >>> california lawmakers plan to work through the weekend in an effort to come up with a budget before the june 15 deadline. democrats in the state senate today pushed through several measures as part of a revised budget. part of that included restoring some education and welfare cuts because an unexpected $6.6 billion increase in revenues. most of the measures passed on party line votes. if the legislators do not pass a bud

. >> tom o'conner local 7 president speaking. >> you can imagine the logistics and trying to coordinate ladder trucks and fire engines and at least 200 that we know of. that means a lot of road closures and that ingousts gough and geary. that will be closed maybe later because this is running late. >> and down 280 south from the 101 split . serramont exist. it will be closed to 7:00 and that will inconvenience people on a friday night. that is a maul - small price to pay begin the price these two men paid. >> transportation notes for you. bart is asking rider to extend sympathy, they are going to take the last car of each train, and they are asking riders to be respectful and leave that open for the firefighters and other emergency personnel who attended the ceremon. >> among those smoke chief joanne hayes-white. we'll let you lin in to what she said today in case you missed. it. >> there is no words to describe the pain and anger and sorrow we are feeling and nor are there wors to describe the sack foyce made by vince and tony last week. my heart goes out to the perez family . brothers

john o'conner is our chief of police and head of security. we begin additional patrols along the northeast corridor infrastructure to make sure we were looking at critical pieces of it. we announced for help from tsa and other security partners along the corridor. it is a difficult thing to protect thousands of miles of railroad across the united states. it is very different from the aviation side of the world, in terms of the way it is now structured and that the way you are isolated when you are on the airplane up in the air. we have had cases in the history of railroading where people in the past tried to derail trains are piling debris on the tracks and those kinds of things. we step up our efforts. we keep looking at how to protect customers and our employees all along the roads. host: joseph boardman is a graduate of cornell university. what is your background? guest: i was raised on a dairy farm in upstate new york. i went into the service for four years. i served in vietnam in 1968 and 1969. i came back and went to college. i got a de

history tv look at savannah, ga., with the events on c-span2, including the home or.writer flanner o'conn also, a tour of urban slavery sites. on american history tv on c- span3, we visit the site of a plantation and export civil war in savannah. c-span's local content vehicle in savannah, ga., this weekend on c-span2 and c-span3. >> falling eight two-day meeting, ben bernanke held a press conference where he repeated his prediction that economic growth would pick up in 2012. this press conference is only the second ever held by a federal reserve chairman. mr. bernanke plans to take questions from reporters four times a year. this is just under one hour. >> my goal is to reflect the consensus in the committee will taking note of the burst -- diversity of views. my remarks are my own interpretations and my own responsibility. as indicated in the policy statement released early this afternoon, we decided to keep the target range for the fund rate at 0.1%. the committee continues to anticipate that economic conditions are likely to want exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for

john o'conner is our chief of police and head of security. we begin additional patrols along the northeast corridor infrastructu to make sure we were looking at critical pieces of it. we announced for help from tsa and other security partners along the corridor. it is a difficult thing to protect thousands of miles of railroad across the united states. it is very different from the aviation side of the world, in terms of the way it is now structured and that the way you are isolated when you are on the airplane up in the air. we have had cases in the history of railroading where people in the past tried to derail trains are piling debris on the tracks and those kinds of things. we step up our efforts. we keep looking at how to protect customers and our employees all along the roads. host: joseph boardman is a graduate of cornell university. what is your background? guest: i was raised on a dairy farm in upstate new york. i went into the service for four years. i served in vietnam in 1968 and 1969. i came back and went to college. i got a degr

transportation security administration head john pistol along with amtrak police chief, john o'conner. that begins at 2:30 p.m. eastern. >>> the "national press club" awards the ford presidentialal. live coverage 1:00 p.m. eastern on the presentation and comments after the award by former national security adviser brent scowcroft on u.s. foreign policy that gets underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> again former national security adviser brent scowcroft coming up talking about u.s. foreign policy until then your phone calls from this morning's "washington journal.". >> host: we'll start with the union leaders website. unionleader.com and their headline about last night's debate. gop candidates blast obama but avoid attacking each other. then "the boston globe" has a similar headline this morning. their is, gop debaters target obama, not romney. that is the "boston globe" this morning. a few jabs over the massachusetts health care as well. the telegraph out of new hampshire says the gop seven target obama at last night's debate. we want to hear from republicans only. what did you think abo