stick the city of houston is the largest cities. up, property taxes were up from below in 2011 and for us, because we are in a very unique position in that there's a lot of oil and gas activity going on in the southern region prc in an uptick in employment. we had a playoffs back in 2010, 2011 all over the city not just in the municipal government but have recovered about 2.4 jobs. .. >> we are starting to realize savis there. we are investing in infrastructure. we have been able to refinance municipal bonds which is very important for us all across the country, so we've realized some savings there. and we've certainly been able to just kind of start reinvesting in technology. so for us, we are -- expenditures are up, but also we're cautiously optimistic. >> wonderful. thank you, ron. and, dan, can you put this into the context of what you all are seeing at moody's? >> sure. we have kind of a unique view of things from some of the people in this room in that we look at the way citifies call conditions affect the overall economy. just

of native people there. in other federal buildings across the city. but also in other parts of the city as well. i'm interested in a bridge that i hope we could talk about called the buffalo bridge that has 56 indianhead busts adorning each side of the bridge as well as buffalo along the top. the visual representation and symbolic representations are all over the place. throughout the 19th century, there were dozens and sometimes hundreds of native delegates, residents, and visitors in the city at any given moment. what is interesting is the tension between the stories being told on the wall, which is one of conquest that was nearly completed, a conquering of the west, manifest destiny, the vanishing indian, all those prominent 19th-century ideas that native people would soon cease to exist as a distinct ethnic group within the national fabric. this is the story that is on the wall. non-native washingtonians, white washingtonians are running into native people all around the city, and the streets and also federal buildings -- streets and halls in federal buildings, in taverns, even in cemeteries.

how the city works you were very, very generous with our knowledge about how all the aspects of the city budget i actually came to the board any first year chairing the budget committee and being comfortable depositing doing that because of the working i've done offer the years with you you've made an incredible impact on the city i've mafshd how were you able to have a enpelvic knowledge if i asked any questions upper on top of that that's a rare thing it shows such a dedication to the city and i i know on top of i'm looking you and to your family i want to congratulate you for your decades of service and your work and bringing so many of us up here in the city to be doesn't budget watcheser and look at it for that the best interests of the entire city thank you very much and i look forward to seeing you not as an employee of city hall but in our other works wanting to be involved in organizations that support people entertaining with homelessness and looking forward to seeing you then. >> commissioner chan monique i was dreading that day i worked with you in the mayor's office

(clapping) or improving the wafer these are legacies to produce for the rest of the city that will last for generations ambassador, if any, this particular cruise ship willy adams understand the piece of the city how he we are we were founded and how we struggled and what they did to make san francisco the gold mountain for many of the immigrants the port incredible industry for the entire west coast so this that is why there is such incredible support for naming this james r herman cruise ship torrential how shall the workers class families that don't get nephew credit they helped me build and rebuild this city so when we announced this also have an incredible support for it been noticing known as the jay russ johnson example herman cruise terminal so we have historians here and the chamber of commerce people here and sports leaders all over the place but is also see ordinary citizens that serve on commissions past and present but folks that step forward and want to be a part of the city with this incredible step you should have been need is minute ago we talked to the custom broad pre

napa and the city of and vallejo activated their centers we didn't activate the city of san francisco e oc home we were together virtually we if need to raise to that level we coordinated virtually with a lot of people that way. disaster proclamations there's been a negotiate tarsal declaration it's been exterminated we didn't declare it by the way, we didn't have damage. there was a shelter set up another napa's crossed walk it had 23 people in that obviously there were cell phone disruptions those things happen every time the groin moves they employed cells on wheels for those in the telecom nomenclature we've used them before we'll use them again, the nice thing about the debt of recovery equipment foretell come it's located in the area they respond face there's a water notice still in napa and the water stations are based two of them in napa. this morning there's 34 schools that are open except one that speaks well most of the schools are old it's a big effort to bring up them up to speed. in disadvantage prospective the city of napa has a hundred red tags of mobile homes. in the

the next one will be the creation of a a disability of the cities and basically. and to be that con did you it and does exist and discussed earlier and connect to, and educate the departments on rule 115 and the value of rule 115. and also to educate i know that the department of human resources has hired somebody to do this and we are definitely encouraged by the movement and by dhr and we are, and we still hold out hope that a full time position could be created to do this. we believe strongly that this is a significant issue that very much warrants the creation of a full time position. and in a city that has 30,000 employees, we think that we can have one of them being in charge of coordinating employment of people with disabilities in city service. so, next? >> yeah. >> the next one is to set san francisco hires goals and this is something that could be modeled after section 503 of the act and we believe that it is a pretty straight forward thing and we believe that this is something that the city needs to do, and there is a core element of that and we believe,

of 2009. in 2012 our city established the office of early care and education and i want to thank once again supervisor avalos who led that discussion in 2012. to help us meet these growing needs and to help us align and coordinate our city's efforts to provide early care and education for children ages zero to 5, this includes meeting the goals of the city-wide plan for early care and education and out of school time. today i am introducing along with supervisors avalos and kim an ordinance to reinforce the duties of the office of early care and education and to establish a citizens advisory committee to help with the development of a strategic plan, to improve access for our young children to high-quality early care and education. the office of early care and education citizen advisory committee will be a nine-member body that will represent a cross-section of parents, early care and education providers, experts, and advocates to help advise the director of the office to help our city expand early education for all and to offer expertise to the areas of policy planning, collaboration, and strategic p

of housing they would not be allowed to sub lease. >> he the other small site acquisition program i i know that the city and the mayor's office of housing is utilized to make sure we have enough affordable unit throughout the city is that type of program covered as a residential unit. >> i'll recommend if those are the types of specific uses instead of concluding the language we call out those specific types as you've described them as opposed to this general language. >> that's any intent and hopefully with the support of the board and if that's accepted by the author of the main ordinance i'll withdrew my amendment but i would ask the president in my conversations with the planning staff we can insure we're going to include those types of unit we've discussed. >> so colleagues just to clarify supervisor mar your wrooug your amendment. >> through the president is that your intent to be as boarded as we can about excluding the bmr's and the sro's and the city induced unit. >> that's my intent i seemed mount prop c and small fund income restricted and involve the lo low income rate that leaves the question around in-laws and that is one

and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part because of is the public works sdooshg which is a great pedigree my own bias i was one, too i was the city administrator amongst among the architect of the capital plan that is institutionalized in the city a process we combifrpt and investing in the city critical assets that's a successful program and it was really does mayors sense then city administers of the importance of the infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed lee accountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation director in a city and the mayor comes and brings together with $3 billion to invest in the transportation city it doesn

and any of the other cities that wish to participate. prior to this resolution, coming forward, we heard a lot of concerns that we want to make sure that we address, in this resolution, that could provide guidelines for the negotiations prior to agree to any jpa and so this resolution, includes a subpoena reer vision that we want to make sure are part of the jpa such as the jpa it will endemnify the city and cover the costs the use of the eminent domain will be linked to residential mortgages could not be used on actual homes or property, it will propose using the demain on the mortgages with the content of the home owner, so the participation by home owners in the program will be strictly voluntary and there is a history about the use of imminent domain but we want to be doing it for a program that truly meets the desire and wish and needs of the people who have distressed more amings. >> it is our hope that we meet these terms in alleviate the concerns about this program, at the mayor's office of housing, negotiates the specifics of the

. >> i withdrew the part of the amendment that refers to city substituted housing but lease in the part of new mexico's. >> and colleagues any other questions or discussed on any of the amendments last call for amendments no other amendments so as our city attorney mentioned we have a disappointed file unless there's objection the way i think we precede we'll adopt each separate amendment that does not require a committee back to committee reference or a reference to planning commission and that will be one file and the second file will be you'll have those amendments that require a referral back to committee around planning commission supervisor chiu first then supervisor kim and i want to suggest i am wondering if we can before duplicating making the substituted amendment would be with we can agree on and duplicate the file and at this point are supervisor breed's and supervisor kim i believe those are the two colleagues that have amendments that trail and need to go back to committee. >> any outlooks. >> that was my intention to duplicate the file after the non sufficiently susan sub

i am lucky and fortunate that here in the city of san francisco that my salary is set by the city charter. i know that i'm paid equal pay as my male colleagues on this board of supervisors. however, i'm fully aware that if and when i leave city hall that i may make less than my male colleagues after i leave for the same work. and i think it's ip credibly important that as we take this major policy stance that we believe in equal pay for equal work, that we really do that, particularly with the actual entities, our contractors that are paid public dollars, our taxpayer dollars, to make sure that they are pursuing the work of making sure that women get equal pay for equal work. these are organizations and for profit and nonprofit entities that are getting public taxpayer dollars and i believe that we absolutely have a right in those case

and county of san francisco right here and thank you for being here for another amazing chapter of the city and county of san francisco we bring millions of people around the world to those neighbors, in fact, it's our city that brought a young man from seattle mayor ed lee with who became our mayor a woman from washington, d.c. president of our port commission it brought another young man, if missouri our vice president mr. alzheimer's and when i was 22 i came to those neighbors and like you all we envelope in love with our waterfront i'll actual 6 years ago when i ran for office i had hundreds of constituents many of r whom are here saying what is the city going to do to fix up our piers our piers were pa fatally into the sea we had had pier 35 and the neighborhood associations came together with w working with the develops developers and the city staff and the board of supervisors we brought the best science perfume museum on the west coast piers 17 chp we brought the best sailing race last year with the america's cup and used that to make sure we move forward legislation and a hundred m

the outlook of city finance officers. general fund revenues, workforce and personnel and ending balances. i will discuss the most impactful factors on the city's budget as well as how cities are responding. without further adieu, it's not a surprise that this year's survey reveals although the worst is behind them. finances have not yet recovered following the great recession and here's how we know. looking 59 city finance officers, we gauge the informed opinion of city finance officers. ganling their opinion is critical to the outlook of finances city-wide. we ask is your city's budget more or less able to meet the financial needs of your community? this chart shows the percent reporting better able or less able with the gray bars better able and the blue bars less able. in 2014, a staggering 80% of city finance officers report that they are better able to meet the needs of their community than this time last year. more city finance officers in fact report a positive outlook this year than in the 29-year history of the su

cleaning the streets of san francisco and so those o both of them understand the infrastructure of the city but also understands what that means to be a public certificate your our commitments what they laborer look for they're ready to get their hundreds dirty on behalf of the city as we move forward i want to acknowledge mayor ed lee and pco for being the standard bears for the blooming relationship and representing both of our cities this morning as we work together to build itself cities of the future we also learn so much from each other before to build for affordable housing in so far and the blue greenway along our waterfront or the seoul's initiate to build more public housing and those above those are initiate around the sharing economy we have much to learn from each other we have been on the forefront of ideas whether lift or more airbnb seoul as taken that on not only have the private initiate force sharing economies but the government itself is starting it's on sharing pro mriefrm was impressed by they're using their public buildings and opening its doors and allowing the citiz

this is also the area of the city that is experiencing a significant amount of growth and housing construction. and as a city, we are also aggressively developing formerly industrial properties and brown fill sites with housing and commercial space as well as parks. we know that exposure to particulate matter such as diesel emissions can lead to chronic health problems that -- health problems and that people living near free ways and other emitters are most vulnerable to this. the ordinance before you today updates our city's landmark article 38 of the health code to require developers that are retrofitting a large portion of a home to -- or building a new house in a designated air quality hot zone to install enhanced ventilation systems to ensure that residents receive clean air in their units. this ordinance will also streamline the ceqa and permitting processes for project sponsors by clearly identifying all of the areas of the city where we know these enhanced measures are needed and will be imposed as ceqa mitigation measures. this legislation has been a part of an overall strategy to hel

it's serious i want to thank supervisor wiener both of us share the prospective many of us building the city's relinquishment policy is not working and need to be significantly very invested a picture is worst a thousand words and the clerk to show a couple of the pictures in the northeast district loan and ask our sfgovtv staff to focus on them this is a photograph of what happens let september near vallejo other north beach obviously significant significant damage we go to the next photo arrest this is from early august and st. francis at the corner of broadway and columbus if we could into to our next slide in just like if you could well in was going to be light final photograph this was a car crushed in february at lombard and mason in front of the toifl you'll note a child seat right underneath where the tree fell detain to the next photo it's hard to see that that is the try that collapsed in front of the toifl center it is a very serious problem we've been fortunate as a city no one has been injured by the collapse i believe without intervention soon the next tree collapse could result

and the city has experienced a tremendous amount of residential growth and a topic of discussion, here in the city and throughout the residential neighborhood and what has specifically come forward though, is actually some positive news, which is that our school district enrollment continues to grow as it has over the last couple of years and now what we are starting to feel the impact of is that we may be reaching and we may be receiving some limitations within our own school district capacity due to the tremendous growth here in the city and so this hearing was put forward and requested actually by president fewerer to understand how residential growth and our over all planning process will impact the schools now and in the future, historically the school district has not been a part of the larger city planning discussion and this is intent to start the discussion between the planning department and sfusd about this residential growth and today we have gill telly who is here to present on the growth and influencing trends influencing growth and part of the story is how baby boomers a

city. august of this year i went to new york city with the full knowledge of the new york police departmentnd the new york mayor's office, i made the same type of body freedom speech in the center of times square, and was picked up by associated press. it went all over the country and it seems to be dropped as an issue in this city, you know, which used to be recognized as a center for progressive liberal cutting edge thought and we have a question of whether it's going away. i'm here to fight it. if you want to join in, you fight. this is not a classical issue for running for supervisor so i'm going to go back to the classical issues which are he economic security and neighborhood control of property development in this city. we're seeing some trends away from this. you should know that i have the endorsement of the san francisco tenants union, 62% of the household in this district are renters. and of the homeowners and condo owners, most of them are former renters and are very tensetive to tenants rights. i'm for passing of proposition g on this ballot which puts a real estate property ta

of houston is unlike many of the larger cities. we are saying that our sales taxes up, property taxes up from 2011 and arrest because we are in a very unique efficient and a lot of oil and gas activity is going on in another region, we see an uptake in employment. we had layoffs back in 2010, 2011 all over the city, not just in municipal government, but we covered about 2.4 for every job lost were recovered about 2.4 jobs. so we are seeing the housing market has always been fairly stable in our area so that has been a major driver for us. we've seen attacks these grow horizontally as opposed to vertically. we are not so interested in raising tax rates, but getting more structures on the ground not just in the residential spot, but the commercial side. but we have also seen just this cutting back in government as well where we've been able to retool ourselves and we did have the biggest part of the recession we moved from a regular health insurance model to a self-insured model and we are starting to realize the savings they are. we

>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco joint city & school district select committee occurring october 23, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> we do. good afternoon. and welcome to our regularly schedule meeting of the joint city and school district and select committee for thursday, october 23rd, my name is jane kim and i serve as the chair and i am joined by my colleagues supervisor mark farrell and mendoza, and i want to recognize the clerk and cascoa as well as sfgtv who record the meetings and make them available to our public. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> there are none. >> could we please take roll call? >> okay, commissioner fewer? >> here. >> supervisor kim? >> here. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. >> and supervisor farrell? >> present. >> thank you. >> we have a quorum. >> okay. >> do you call the rest of the roll. >> this is new. >> we did last month. >> so sorry. >> and so the other members, i will call roll for, supervisor avalos? absent and commissioner wynns is also absent. >> thank you madam clerk. >> thank you. >> could we call th

it shouldn't be the small businesses that pay the tackles etch that benefits from being a part of the city that paid their fair share pay your fair share that's all we're asking and if we vote today without requiring that of a corporation that is worth temple billion dollars i think we're not only making a mistake about the policy we're making a mistake in terms of the message we're extending to the rest of san francisco we've been talking about the enar equality in this city we're the weight irrelevant city in the world and on the other hand, have the fastest growing inequity e equality that didn't have to do with our system of rules and laws that inequality is simply as difficult economic equality but to go beyond the inequality and is the rules that we have good not apply to certain people that's not what we should do in san francisco it goes against everything we believe if this board passes this without requiring the back tax to be paid we'll go down in history with one of the worts decision home sharing a good but we've predicted a new set of rules on a foundation of inequality that

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. >> item 35 is a resolution urging the city and county of san francisco to make go solar sf a permanent program, to require solar installation on all new construction or substantial retro fits in the city, establishing solar vision goals for 2020, and establishing an overall megawatt solar energy goal for the city. >> thank you. president chiu. >> first i want to thank all the leaders of our local solar movement here in san francisco that have been really leading the country in how we as a city embrace solar energies in these new sustainable source he. colleagues, i ask for your support today on this resolution to take our city's leadership in solar to the next level. in 2008 san francisco launched go solar s.f., and we received $65 million in private investment, the headquartering of major solar leaders in san francisco in the bay area, and over 120 solar jobs for many diverse residents who otherwise would have faced significant employment barriers. our city has seen firsthand the benefits of solar energy, keeping housing affordable, increasing property values, creating jobs, and promo

anthony's has been in san francisco for 64 years it bodies the openness and generosity of the city ofut the generosity st. anthony's 0 would not have been able to serve 40 years and without the generosity of our community we'll not be serving meals on this corner in a place that was what converted automobile shop we provided the critical will basic services to many, many people i'd like to make i'd like to thank even that made the day possible our volunteers (clapping.) many, many volunteers our employees (clapping) >> yeah. >> (clapping) >> our donors thank you, very much. our sponsored there's a list of them right here in particular i'd like to say to thank our lead sponsor making kevin corporation thank you very much (clapping) i have the great how shall of welcoming the board of trust father john harden fathered john many of you know is form director of st. anthony's she was the one that get the ball rowell open little new dining rumor in 2004 to raise the money when they said it was going to be define father john took the leap of faith and sunshine said full speed ahead god will

for soma restaurant group, inc., dba soma eats, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco.hearing to consider that the issuance of a type-42 on-sale beer and wine public premises license to tiffny vergara chung for project 22, located at 2200b market street (district 8), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general license from 4686 18th street to 601 van ness avenue (district 5), to salma suleyman for opera plaza deli and taqueria, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco.hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 on-sale general license from 698 vermont street to 1607 20th street (district 10), to khaled ghanma for all states best foods, will serve the public convenience or necessity of city and county of san francisco. >> >> good, we could call you, for the first eats, oussama. >> sxim here for the transfer to 186-second street, that place is vacant for the past five years and we

in this city of st. paul be opened the union depot a multilevel transit hub to provide access to cities cities, the central stop on the train and a light rail rail, buses, but if you look at how the project came together was a combination. not just local but private, a federal sources and of perfect public-private partnership and those are the types of things cities will be to sustain their well-being into the future and that type of cooperation we need to attack the with there under funded infrastructure. but to move goods and people to their jobs for about 5 miles of nation's highways and ports and airports in transit systems that is why we support a multilevel transportation and program spending dollars directly to projects. the city's need a stronger role in the selection process to recognize the central role to metropolitan economy is. by ensuring a strong voice for local leaders to return on innovation and infrastructure it is a hallmark of what makes the nation so great. panera can cities and busin

isil say they are very close to one edge of the city, but in another part of the city, the syrian kurdishhters say they have pushed them about 7 kilometers further back. turkey's new president has told parliament that the fight against terrorism is a priority for his government, but another priority is to continue to further isolate syrian president bashar al-assad. turkey's parliament votes on thursday on actions in syria and iraq, and also in that motion is a clause that will allow foreign forces to use turkish bases. this could be about u.s. pressure to open up an air base from where the u.s. can launch fighter jets that have targeted isil positions in syria and iraq. >>> meanwhile at least 20 people, half of them children have been killed in two car bombings in the syrian city of homs. >> reporter: the apparent target of the bombings was a school. many of the casualties were children who were leaving their classes at the time of the explosion. officials say a car bomb was remotely the detonated outside of the gate before a suicide bomber blew himself up among the crowd. dozens were ki

be sure to take your camera and be prepared to take a view of the city will not forget. it has a beautiful red rock formations. you could watch the sunrise over the bay. this is another one of our great lookouts. we are at mount davidson. 928 feet. this is the place for you to bring someone special. to not forget that dogs and enjoy all of the pathways and greenery that surrounds you. it provides a peaceful oasis of open space and great hiking trails. the spectacular view offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or sunset with someone you love. >> it is a good place to get away from the hectic life of the city. come up here and listen to nature, i get some fresh air. that view is fantastic. >> where sturdy shoes. hikers get the feeling of being in a rain forest. mount davidson is also a great place to escape the noise and the bustle of the city. take the 36 bus and it will drop you at the entrance. it is quite a hike to the top but the view is worth every step. this is the place to bring that someone special. golden gate park's largest body of water is an enchanting pl