he was very sarcastic and aggressive against people with whom he disagreed, and dismissive oftentimes. and he acted with the implicit blessing of the vice president. so all of these things made him a very, very forceful presence. >> you know, david pushed, he pushed everybody. he pushed me. even when i was the attorney general, he would push me. so that was just david's nature, and i think jack didn't

get a little bit better just recall for the next thirty seconds who helped you get our first job oftentimesbout that we realize someone helped you those are the times when you look at 70 thousand youth of san francisco that will never forget the moment that someone helped them get they're first job and lout them to get the skills and turn from an interview they have their head down to how can i help our company be more expensive with my skills those are transitional periods of time like eric said and their transitional for our city i want to signal to the next generation of youth your future is here in the city and the best jobs exist in the city of san francisco and we're going to link you up to present you in the best way and allow you and your family to succeed so think about that for a moment who helped you get our first job because oftentimes you're goingo

. >> oftentimes it's difficult to facilitate the process that the city puts into place especially for a program it's meant to actually be of service if an emergency situation so i'm just asking we put you know the necessary i guess language in the requirement that don't make it this as difficult for the smaller nonprofits who tend to have a lot of difficult if maine their own 501-c 3 and navigating through the city we were not considered a large organization i helped us through the process of getting work on the building it was frustrating and difficult and times consuming it it was tedious but you, you know, we got through the process and we had our own 501-c 3 just imagine those facilitating the nature and this was intended to physically support the organizations of my concern as well is to support those particular organizations i'm just hoping we put the necessary language in place so we don't make this more of a difficult in terms of the challenges they're facing. >> i think we'll be able to do that. the gentleman mentioned we sporadic want to look for intermediateries that have t

a lot of goats to cover weeds and when we get into restoration activities, habitat restoration oftentimes you do have to turn to weed control mechanisms that are focused on individual plants because you don't want to disturb the soil around your restoration area for environmental purposes. we do a lot of the things to try to minimize our use over all and frankly i will just put this out there, everybody in my staff is great. thank you chris for all your work on this. and i would be happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues, thoughts, questions, puc commissioners? commissioner steven son? >> yes. we talked about reducing application. have we been able to measure in the water system whether or not we have seen a drop off accordingly? >> well in the water system our goal was to make sure it is zero and the water systems. oftentimes we are controlling weeds around our facilities, mosquito, larva and what they have to do with wastewater. i don't know in the affluent tom can speak to that. >> colleagues? just one quick question, steve, obviously as the ag m with water, that is the linkage fo

oftentimes there is illegal stuff going on and people living there will not speak up. so, -- >> thank you. ~ i have a couple things. i guess first would be that for our most severely impaired populations, transition or services that help keep people in their homes and out of institutions, that keep people in their communities and with their families is money very well spent. it's not only a quality of life issue for the individuals, but it's for society as a whole, to be integrated, fully integrated into the community, whenever and wherever possible. so, something like the community living fund needs to be funded fully to ensure that people aren't being swept into institutions out of convenience. and that every effort is made to integrate them into the community. my other area is referring to hopa funding and people living with hiv/aids. and we have so many facets influencing this population. they're aging -- well, we're all aging, but the population as a whole is skewed, over 50% of people with aids and hiv in san francisco are over the age of 50. many of them have be

oftentimes we are controlling weeds around our facilities, mosquito, larva and what they have to do with wastewater. i don't know in the affluent tom can speak to that. >> colleagues? just one quick question, steve, obviously as the ag m with water, that is the linkage for water. they talked about golf and pesticides and we've heard this at the environment commission, golf makes a spray like this. when it comes to water, if you find with respect to golf, does golf similarly lead to a spike in water usage whether it's just plain golf in these tourments? >> actually, interesting to see that graph. i would like to go back and koerment to -- correlate to see if there is a spike. there might be because there is nothing that looks better than the green grass. >> for me the interest in bringing down the usage of water especially in light of the drought and use of pesticides if related to this recreational sport are in line to twin goals is something we can work togetheron? >> absolutely. >> colleagues? all right. thank you very much. thanks everybody. monica, can we go to item b? cl -- city cle

so, this is the idea of -- i don't know how we can do this, but between city hall agencies, oftentimes't really know what they're supposed to do or haven't been caught up on it as well as the members of the public understanding why this issue is so important, the issue of transparency and open government, why it really can succeed and it should really be, you know, a forefront of importance for everybody. i think it's really important. the agencies and the commissions do need to be taught proper procedures on how to handle sunshine requests, the materials we have are out date and had don't deal with the current types of issues that come up now ask as well as the technological advances. [speaker not understood]. it was a tremendous for myself high learning curve and it took a long time to really get to understand how the process work and what our responsibilities were and where we lie in that process. we talked about the change to the bylaws in the process. i think we've had a lot of issues with ethics. i think the more communication with ethics to determine the needs in order to go for

, but not able to stay in the treatment not recognize or remember they have a chronic illnesses oftentimes after a year of or two of treatment they don't need it and stop seeing the treatment team and go off the treatment and start to deteriorate the next step they have their families and friends trying to get them back this only end when the police arrest them on the 5150 or harming themselves or others do i hear a motion to approve the minutes at that point in time at that point, they become homeless and typically require treatment to restables. this insight is not a character trait or a political opinion such patients see it in other people not themselves it's not a deficit of intelligence we've treated severely chronic will i ill people that have degrees in psychy. this reflects a problem. which is just greek for no knowledge of the disease and not understand the deficit of a minldz and it is seen when a person has a paddlers arm and seen in dementia and agreeing schizophrenia it represents deterioration. but the important thing once we recognize this way to we can structure the damage

work cleaning up parks and really outlining those outcomes are the ones for the city as well is oftentimes we're able to make greater change for the offenders in the city not just get a fine or a site from the city. supervisor kim are you directing our questions to anyone >> i was directing it for dpw behind the rational. i want to amend that >> i know we've all received these but have you had a change to a look at those and no, but from what i've heard they don't seem to be that significant but until i'm able to review the changes and be comfortable i'm not able to support them at this point there are a number of surprises in terms of the changes to the legislation. >> okay. let me me suggest to advance and do pass, consent or kick this to later in the meeting. >> i'm fine if we want to go over each amendment amendment by amendment and make a decision in this regard. >> i apologize. i did go over the first 3 amendments with supervisor breed's office amendment 4 we alluded to we didn't have time but amendments one through 3 are for the finding to clarify what i said graffiti clarifies the

your family to succeed so think about that for a moment who helped you get our first job because oftentimes you're going to do that extra more to hire the youth in san francisco. finally, i want to say this in san francisco the other thing we do besides hire people when the door has been opened to us we keep the door open for everyone else this is about opportunity it's but also the suggestion that we are a community of people that care for each other this is a compassionate city and also not the economic success we all want but the ability to taller than and say who's next and who can i bring through the door you doorkeepers are there to keep the door open and we're going to use that door to bring success to other families. thank you for being here and in anticipation for helping us to create 7 thousand jobs this summer for youth i appreciate it very much this city is going to be on fire for everyone. thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor so for those who remember the first opportunity how many got it right the first time? yeah. we're creating opportunity to learn and grow. but with th

they are in danger when they are put -- placed in the general public and oftentimes are threatened and put in a very precarious dangerous position. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >>> i'm laura thomas. i'm the co-president of the harvey milk lgbt democratic club and i want to thank the members of the budget committee for holding this hearing and thank the members of the board of supervisors and the mayor for coming up with the funds to maintain the system of care. you know we have more people living with hiv and aids here in san francisco now than we ever have. i would love to see a greater investment in our system of care. and thank you for helping to maintain it [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisor. i'm john weather man, speaking in support for the shanti project life program which offers direct services, education, and support to men and women with hiv/aids. at 71 years and 30 plus years paused, i am a thankful resip yetv of these services for the last eight years. ~ recipient the live pr

oftentimes, i have gotten to know chinese students who go overseas and they become even more patriotichina. that is logical. you can understand why you are feeling a little bit out of sorts. you hear people criticizing china and say, "it is my responsibility to stand up for it." >> we found this, don't know who it is, but they are chinese students talking about democracy. >> it might not suit china. it isn't such a good thing. maybe china would evolve towards democracy on its own. >> i think the most intriguing thing about american government is that they put personal liberty as the main thing. >> the americans tend to picture american soldier on the street in iraq saving iraq people from hell. whenever there is, a dictatorship, as someone would call it, the u.s. tend to think it is their job to save those people. they haven't realized that democracy is an absolute value in u.s. but it might not be the absolute in other countries. >> how much there do they young people want democracy and do they know what it is? >> the word itself is toxic in a way. it has been for so many years identi

it's oftentimes planning control leafs folks on both sides seeking change it's our hope you'll arrest a agree the the response needs a reaction we're not asking you to endorse it but the initials is an action that the public that intends to recommend a change and the public is on notice that an action will happen later. the commissioners may he address it but the public may understand this is a day not to be concerned we ask you to consider action on or after july 10th. the potential action will happen after or on june 5th we heard from supervisor mar he wants more time to consider the prospering proposal we too benefit from the opportunity of more outreach let us begin i'm going to turn it over to my fear also manager for the bulk of the presentation >> good afternoon, commissioners commissioner burns here's the outline for our presentation i'm going to take you through the 4 aspects and we'll beginning benefit from the public. this is the definition of formulate retail overall this aspect will strengthen the formula retails controls and those changes will target large established ch

oftentimes in prison break attempts hundreds of people die in the process, it has been one of the primary concerns of human rights organizations, the nigerian government has not been transparent when it comes to handling boko haram fighters that it has in custody. it's not like we have seen any trials or prosecutions except one trial a few years ago. the human rights organization accused the government of enga engaging in summary executions, and extra judicial killings of these members. only fueling the anger of boko haram and it's insistence on releasing its members from detention. >> the search of one of africa's most notorious war ladders have narrowed. according to reports just released from u.n. security council. the leader of the lords resistance army is accused of rape and using child soldiers. >> my government shares the secretary general concern about the possibility that lra leaders have sought a safe hay no one sudanese controlled areas. we work cooperatively with the a.u. t any government should be embarrassed to be sheltering the lords resistence army. >> staying in africa. e

it's the government, private companies oftentimes working together and republicans and democrats in washington, d.c. are for once united. they're united against the american people when it comes to the issue of privacy. they're spying on us, allowing priva private. >> it's one thing spying on me, but on my kid in high school and grade school, that really makes me mad. >> they're taking this information and then selling it. that's what makes it trashy. they're gathering it under the inches of saying we're doing something wonderful educational educationally, then sell it for commercial reasons. >> there's so much information, so many thing, who's watching the watchers? >> the issue of private industry and business is an important thing to protect the american consumer. it's a small step. it's going to take a while to get implemented, but you have senators from massachusetts and senator markey and hatch who have come together and brought forth bipartisan legislation to put controls on the current sort of organization that you mentioned from 1970s. but we've got to do something going forward in or

a few years ago and it's got to be inspirational we have wonderful people in the city and hail oftentimes sacrifice a lot of their personal safeties in order to help with the other so i'm going to look all you knew commissioners as heros we're going to help me sustaining a successful city for everybody so we can grew up other heros in our families that choose to live in our great city. i want to say thank you all of who are here with the families and friends and people in the neighborhoods that have recommended our service i want to say thank you ahead of time you'll make time sfraz for this will be more than oofrments sometimes struggling with important decisions that help the commissions and depended figure out though how to create uniting in our city and for this ahead and all the aspects. some 16 different bodies restraining order re79d today with new commissioners we have 21 of you who have uped users for the task and thank you first and foremost you are giving up our personal time to do this. your city so much is run by the policies you get forgot and the voice and tune you have to

out thirty ferries affordable but, you know, as many of the groups where we have two wage owners oftentimes city employees where two wage earners are not not working for the city but kaptd qualify that will help us with the need for affordable housing. >> commissioner moore. >> thank you for the presentation it helps me to understand the products themselves are asking us questions but if there's a summary where that someone would get the information on the progress is helpful there are many, many questions about the dire nature of the situation i couldn't be as eloquent i'm having a hard time distinguishing between dial and dash and how they layer and apply they can be on acronym somewhere to bring it to other people's attention would be great they sound similar and there's a lot of room for miss trert and you it their independent yet effective measures to layer the complicated i'd like greatly appreciate that. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move ton 0 general public comment time, members of the public may address the commission on

get a little bit better just recall for the next thirty seconds who helped you get our first job oftentimes we only think about that we realize someone helped you those are the times

. >> a that's a recognition that oftentimes kids from the asian community are on the humble side or reversed shall we say. so we thought about providing the ability for them to learn public speaking. we discovered that -- it doesn't take much to realize that the only way to do public speaking is to do it. >> let's watch a clip of one of the students, jennifer, her speech. pretty good stuff. >> yeah. >> can everyone see me okay now? hello, everyone, and good afternoon. my name is jennifer and i'm going to be a sophomore at mills high school in california. >> david, tell us what is remarkable about jennifer. >> what's remarkable, as you see in this particular film or video is that she's just a freshman and very short person. what she learned was that you need to be prepared for the occasion that you are in and facility around it. so her father took her in there to take a look at the room where she will be and low and behold, they found out that the podium was above her head. >> i often have that problem. so what did you do? >> what she did was to request a stool be available and obviously you

there's nothing else consequences to public safety in general oftentimes we're given the circumstances we're unbelievable able to access information that's probably available to inform the way we make sure b that number one we're going to have the right outcome for the community and the for the offender this is a place in the last two natives have done a lot to lessen the incarceration and this is understanding the circumstances around an offender as well as the neighborhood and the victim have important for us there's a wealth of data we can't access and this we should find essential certainly i do this is not the way to run a more than that public safety system in the 21st century. i believe we owe our community a lot more than that one of the things we're trying to do hopefully illuminate for you how business is being done if other communities and one of the community eave looked at there are a leader in this area the district attorney's office i personally spent time there in the last year today, i'm pleased to introduce the person that actually runs the crime strategy unit that's

ongoing caseload even if seven hundred and 50 conservative our cases once they're past their petition oftentimes cabaret in custody and others things like change of medication or change of placement and our lawyers staff all those folks. to date in the calendar year 6 hundred and 80 cases she's acted on as well as looking at seven hundred and 50 other cases for their court date. the other thing is criminal work obviously we have a number of cases because someone has violated the law but suffering from serious mental illness there's several board cases of those cases load under the tammy same attorney the person's economy of standing trial my folks that are insane folks that maybe finishing their insensitive - sentencing. she has 4 hundred and 20 cases and you can imagine those are cases involving serious crimes and with others who have mental illness they're coming to see where they're with their cases. currently our office didn't staff the 5350 and san francisco generally, i want to bring that out we should be doing under the state law the district attorney's office should be in the hearing and

oftentimes people talk about what's not occurring and what's not happening without talking about the glass being half full. no pun intend. with that, president arrests -- arce? public comment? >> we are going to call for public comment. dr. spin ola jackson. thank you for being here. >> jackson and what i would like to do is give a little history of the environmental committee when it was set up. i was the representative for mayor jordan back in '96 because of the fact that we had problems in my community. in 1990, they were having the 20th anniversary of earth day well, i knew about earth day by watching tv, the news in the afternoon and they would talk about saving the whales, saving the whales. i got a chance to meet the young man responsible for earth day in his office. he stated a word to me. he said, it's about environmental racism. i said, environmental racism? he said, yes. now, i didn't know what the environment meant but i sure knew what racism meant. when he explained to me that all the toxins go into the black communities and latino communities. i said wait a minute, you

assist the court in making a determination how to follow the law and which way to turn interest oftentimes there's a miss pd where the court can come into play by listening to the parties asia determining what's at stake legally and in criminal cases we're incited by the penal code when the discovery is appropriate that's a brown benchmark for the court as well as the criminal procedures so in any stance the matters maybe handled expeditiously there are any things like sanctuaries or the denial of evidence used at trillion maybe a sanction to be mediated by the court. there are a few seconds level left based on experience as a criminal prosecutor i would think that monetary sanitation do you have any feeling about sanctuary >> that is one way and the denial of evidence whatever the issue in a party is found to be at fault may hurt far more than monetary sanction. thank you, ms. williams i'll turn again to you for question 5 describe our judicial philosophy you do have to realize i work at a law school >> i'm going to go bay of a story when i was an under graduate i thought i was going to b