budget could not get much higher , on city like e budget higher going to set the the city budget night on fire yeah you know that i would be untrue you know would be a liar if i was to say to you this city budget cannot get much higher. come on, said the light on fire going to set the night on fire ♪ ♪ >> the time to hesitate is through you're going to make it better by a mile and i was going to say to you you're going to have a safety smile , on city like the budget fire is like going to is that the earthquake night on fire ♪ >> thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. [applause] are there other members of the public who wish to speak on item number one? seeing none, public, disclosed. we have a motion to send it forward with recommendations to the without objection. thank you. colleagues, we have a request from supervisor campos' of this year the overtime hearing at of item number two. the reason is he as an event to be at at 11:00 a.m. we do call item number 3 in four, please? >> item number 3, a hearing on the controller's 6-mother

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one cconcilman says it's an idee that could o. times... with city fire companiessconstantly on the cutttng board... counciiman hoping they money earned will keep fire companies open.you may remeeber three years agoo.. rotating closures weree forced on the city's fire departmenn byythe city'' chief clack annnunced a fire companies thhs summer.fire -t - (34:16)iihope thattwe eep alll of our fire houses and residual revenue to acttally bby new eqqipment(fire trrck na) naas)firefighhers say its too early to jump onnboard of welch's proposal... but if slapping on a ew advertisements passes... they're juss hopoing thee rrvenue generateddwould sspport their department. aabudget appropriations is expectee in two weeks.i'm e - megan illiland, fox45 morning that briigs us to our question of the day:dooyou think fire ouu 7 o'clock hour.s a good you can also gooto ffx-baltimore doo com and tell us what you think... sound off through faaebook.. or send us three men re behinn bbrs this morning... in connection with &pa quadruple shooting... that kill a 12-year-ol

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the street, so my legislation would reduce about to one city block or approximately 500 feet. i am amending the to bring it back. i thought a city block would be easier to enforce, but the department of public works feels that it should be a number of seat, so we would change it to 500 feet. i have had numerous meetings with the school districts and the food and fitness council, formerly known as snack pack, which is led by parents and others concerned about student nutrition, and we are hoping to get some kind of consensus with the parent advocates. the policy goes behind the legislation enacted five years ago are to protect those student lunch program, so we have students not attempted to leave campus, so we have food trucks hauling directly in front of schools, and to improve student nutrition. while i agree food trucks should not be able to go directly in front of schools, 1,500 feet is too far. in addition, we know that food trucks now are a lot healthier choices, so you can not classify them all as roche coaches. we have gotten data from

on. and we knew at that time that we were transitioning as a city to be less dependent upon just words of faith that we have been operating on for some number of years to real life transformation to see real faces like the people that are standing behind me, people whose lives are beginning to transform because they earned their way to a decent job on city projects. and we knew that the real secret is for us to transform ourselves as policymakers and program directors -- don't mind if i pause while these trains come in. that we wanted to have something to hold ourselves accountable to the goals that had been loftly crafted in this ordinance. so we went about the business to working together with the goals, with the trades, with the unions, with the training centers and with the departments about city-funded projects and to make sure that we could really have a city build local hire program that had goals that could be accomplishable and measurable. and so we decided that we would do this in a multi-year fashion where the first year, you had 20% goal and after that, by different measuremen

and the wonderful staff focused on city build and the lower hire ordinance, we're bringing in a very experienced person to head up city build. his name is pat mulligan, he is from the carpenters union. [applause] >> pat, congratulations. i know you're going to use your years of experience in helping us get this done. we're excited that you're aboard because you have not only the experience, you have performance under your belt as well. i know you're serious about helping us creating more hope with more people. that is going to be a continuing story of his leadership and his involvement along with everybody else to complement. nobody is leaving the table. everybody is bringing more people in because i think the best thing is people smell victory. it's like being in the final four, you know. it's not about bringing less people to the table, it's about bringing more people because we smell the possibility of more success for a lot more people. but i begin today after a year of old struggle and challenges and reassurances and now finally performance, i want to continue thanking supervisor

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and this one involved replacing the city's payroll tax completely over a phase-in period with a gross receipts tax. the payroll tax is a tax on the compensation that businesses pay to their employees. a gross receipts tax is a tax on essentially the revenues of businesses, the top line revenues of businesses. so unlike a payroll tax, it doesn't directly add to the cost of labor. it doesn't send a clear a signal not to add jobs or create jobs in san francisco. i should say that as we looked across the practices of local government finance and other cities in california, san francisco is the only city with a payroll tax as its form of business tax. about 35 of the top 50 largest cities in california use a gross receipts tax so it's a very common tax for cities in california. the key features of our gross receipts tax is, first of all, it is a revenue neutral proposal which is to say that it's designed to generate just the revenue that the payroll tax is currently generating, no more, no less. secondly, we are envisioning a phase-in period in which the gross receipts tax is phased in ove

the surcharge is calculated based on 60% of the city's treasury yields on the city's treasury cost inflation estimates, which is focused on the city capital planning group. we revise it every month. i will turn it back over to michael young. >> that is a summary of how the deferral option works. now we will include the summit on housing policy. as i am sure the you know, there are four options under the city's housing ordinance. the first option, on-site, allows developers to elect to build units below market rate within the same project or host project. the offside option allows developers to build up to 20% of their total project units of site within a mile of their host projects. the third option is the fee option that allows developers to pay a fee instead of building on site or offside units. calculated on the cost to build approximately around 20% of the host project units. the fourth option is whereby a developer equivalent to the value of the inclusion area requirement. those are the four options. >> i have a quick question. out of the four, which is most popular? >> i am about to ge

city. we were with a smaller group right before this. one thing that i stress and i will stress to you is that san francisco is a city that -- sort of, we haven't economy going on where we are in many ways to cut -- we have a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are cutting edge technology and are really ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people here, like you, in think our forward- thinking and want to try to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. and change here is really challenging. for those of us at city hall, and david chiu and i talked about this a lot, when we're trying to do things differently, you can get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you're talking about putting cars sharing on the streets or whether you're talking about changing the zoning to be able to create new types of housing to make the city a little bit more affordable and inclusive. you have those kinds of difficult conversations. so much of this is about really educating the city as a whole, from all generatio

mexico city is an ideal location for milagro's megacity resrch. surrounded on three sides by mountains, pollutants become trapped within the city. molina: there are many reasons for selecting mexico city. first of all, mexico city is one of the largest megacities. it has about 20 million people. it is in a tropical latitude, so it's representative of many of the future megacities, which will be in asia, in africa. mexico city is at a high altitude and the solar radiation is very strong and the photochemistry, it is very reactive. and of course, what we hope is that what we learn from mexico city, it will provide insight for us so that we can use that insight and understanding and apply it to other future megacities. narrator: while many previous studies revealed a great deal about pollution within mexico city, what happened to the pollution after it left the city and what its effects were on the region and the globe had never been systematically studied until milagro. so you have all this pollution coming out from burning of fossil fuels, from cars, from indust

city. the wealthy live on the waterfront in stately apartment buildings. ny have jobs in the modern offices of turkish and multinational companies. politics, religion, ethnicity, migration, economics: istanbul, with nearly ten million people, is facing multiple challenges. the city's unique location provides the first clue as to why its fate is of so much interest to other parts of the world. istanbul lies at a crossroads where the north-south axis of rich and poor intersects with the west-east axis of cultural differences. this is where christian europe meets islamic asia. istanbul lies on the bosporus, the narrow strait that unofficially separates europe from asia. the city has flourished for many centuries as an economic and political center. as constantinople, it was the center of the christian byzantine empire. as istanbul, it was the seat of the turkish-ottoman sultans. after the first world war, the last remnants of the ottoman empire disappeared. turkey, on the losing side, was reduced to its present size. in the 1920s, the political leader ataturk

chair mcdonnell: one is around data from city departments. member tidwell: my suggestion would be to the extent there are recommendations, we can do that on saturday. combine those to what the general recommendation would be. member schreiber: i am ok with ms. melara's suggestion. member pilpel: by it -- i think i am with a member melara but i am also open to do it individually. chair mcdonnell: from her point of view, there are two areas we have agreement on. two ideas -- one around city departments and data, the other more time around the outreach plan. member schreiber: yes, i am with that. >> i also submitted something. chair mcdonnell: we are not on community outreach. we are on city departments. we're going to come to outreach. member lam: i think it is important to have a reflection recommendation on how departments can be considered or incorporated for the task force. member leigh: yes. member alonso: yes. chair mcdonnell: she will craft a recommendation. the second one is around time to plan, time and resources, to plan for outreach.

you will be able to enjoy the challenges of the city, ones that are critical to the delivery of old promises in a city where everyone has a voice, that, through your words and wisdom, be empowered in the city. you are all part of commission that will empower people, so, quickly developed the attitude, agenda, schedule. we need your time. i think people are giving money in these challenging economic times. today, right now, i am thinking you because you are going to be giving more than $5 of your time. he will be sacrificing personal time over the weekends. as i do, saying, it is worth it if i can turn around attitudes of what we are doing. if i can have all of you that are here today help me with the promises we made in our redevelopment communities, as you take on things like the successor oversight agency committee, help me develop those promises for communities that depend so much on our development. tell them that we are not giving up on those promises, whether it is housing, economic development, workforce development, kids. when you take on responsibilities of the building inspection,

with city fire companies constantly on the cutting board... counnilman pete welch says he wants to put ads on the trucks.he's hoping the money earned will keep fire commanies open.you may remember three years ago... rotating closures weree forced on the city's fire department bb the city's redeployment of personnel thht would shut down three fire companies this summerr (34:16)i hope that we keep all of our fire houses andd comppnies intact and we get residual revenue to actually buy new equipment(fire truck na) nats)a budget appropriations committee hearing on the issue is expected in two eeks. your favorite n-b-aaplayer's jersey may soon come with advertising.that's according the new york times... which reports several n-b-a owners and executives reeently met to discuss selling ads n game uniforms.a ttp n-b-a executive a done eal... and won't from - happen without the approval of team owners. the cost of saving more lives is the bbg quession leftt pehind by a tudy just released, about hhliiopter res. rescues. joel d. smith is ive at johns hop

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mayor's office has done what it had to do to work out with cpmc so that the commitment to the city was onethat the city could live with. also, you know, there is such a need for jobs. some of our members have not worked in two years. of four daughters. one is a nurse. two are in school for the medical field. a project of this nature will not only provide construction jobs, it would also provide jobs in other fields. i urge you to initiate this project so we can go forward. thank you. commissioner fong: thank you. if i have called your name and you are ready to speak, come on up. there may be some folks in the other room, and i will keep calling names. maybe you can give us an update its seats become available of here. corey marshall. rubin santana. paul chin. indeed brown. -- angie brown. ok. how about teresa timson? robert lopez? all right. >> good afternoon. i am robert lopez. i work for mission hiring hall, south of market employment center. i just want to talk a little bit about what we do admission hiring hall. we have the city build program, and we have the construction admin trainin

council has approved the ban on city property and in public parks, with the exception of golf courses. last year, sunnyvale received an "f" from the american lung association, for its anti-tobacco efforts or lack trough. the city used grant money with the goal of reducing people's exposure to secondhand smoke. >>> the dispute over dollars, that triggered the secret service prostitution scandal. the course, being briefed on the investigation, told nbc news, a colombian prostitute got angry with two secret service agents when they refused to pay her her full price for her services. the agents allegedly met the woman at a strip club ahead of the president's arrival for the summit of the americas. all of the agents and officers allegedly brought women back to the hotel that evening. >>> one minute, you're shopping for groceries. and the next, it's sheer panic. i have to tell you that the images are a bit disturbing. miraculously, no matter what you see here, no one was killed. a 76-year-old woman plowed her car through the front door on saturday. ten people were hurt. two of them

if you're on that end of the city and it falls on you to come into this hospital, where would you want to be, hospital access at this point or having to fight the whole city to get to cpmc? so, again, please don't ignore a large part of the city and the demographics are changing as well as drug use, san francisco is one of the highest drug use cities in the nation, possibly the world. people from all over the world getting addicted causing mental health illness. if they don't have any access, the prison population will rise and those people will be in prison. thank you. president fong: thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you. president fong, members of the commission, my name is david meckel. i'm the director of research and planning at california college of the arts where i founded san francisco's first professional architectural program 27 years ago. my expertise is in city planning, urban design, and architecture. in my professional opinion, cpmc's plan for the architecture urban design and public ground improvements of this public are smart, sustainable, and urbanistcally s

the day. >> this morning we asked -- what do you think of the idea of putting billboard-type ads on cityo help fund the department? >> we will post more of your answers on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. >> 6:54. 68 degrees on tv hill. >> coming up, we'll take a last look at weather and traffic together before you head out to start your day. >> how is the j.f.x. this morning? >> it is developing some delays. it is started to slow down to around falls road to the construction zone. for the most part, traffic is moving pretty well compared to yesterday. southbound 795 come delays from frank than all the way to the beltway. upper cocoa bought some fire department activity. -- upperco, and fire activity. >> we tied a record yesterday. you'll notice the difference tomorrow. today will be a very nice with a mixture of sun and clouds. a little on the breezy side. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25.

on traffic pulse 11. back to you. >> thank you. in baltimore cityncilman has an unusual proposal. >> he wants to sell advertising on the sides of fire trucks. kim dacey has details on this unique idea. >> good morning. >> the councilman introduced the measure last night after he was inspired by seeing a school bus with advertising on the side. this is one of fire company that is scheduled to close. councilman pete welsh believes selling advertising space on this side of fire trucks could save the fire departments. >> i think it will be tastefully done and it should raise enough money so we don't have enough closures or any companies shutting down or anything. we will be able to have public safety in tact in baltimore city. >> the measure was introduced on monday night. >> if this could help, we are wide open to the idea. >> the prospect of bringing new revenue is attractive. >> i do not want the firetrucks looking like a nascar. >> welch said he would rely on firefighters to place the designs. >> what type of advertisement and what the advertisement

i am proud to be a citizen of one of the greatest cities in the world in my opinion. i am fortunate to have been given this opportunity. for those not familiar with the academy, [unintelligible] on local construction jobs. i am here to advocate the building at california pacific medical center. it will provide jobs in a seismically safe hospital in the event of emergency. i can think of no better way to stimulate our local economy and create a large budget projects such as cpm say. after all, we live here so why not work here and spend our money here? please go yesterday. thank you for your time. -- abovote yes today. >president fung: you have permits. you do not have to use all three. if you want to go through your comments, please do. >> thank you. and speaking on behalf of city build. it is important to get this project approved not only for jobs but to bring decent health care to low-income families throughout our communities and cities. hospitals and decent health care is a big concern to residents in our city. also our communities are in need of good paying jobs

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on. there are errors that increase. city-wide it, rank choice voting races have 6.5% of the vote is actually an error on average among the four races available to us. what is interesting, that is not the race the ec the most number of errors. school boards and community college board elections actually produce the highest number of errors on the citywide average. in this case, there were only three elections -- the committee college board and one of the years had three candidates running for three seats to fill. i looked at that as a one candidate, one seat race to fill. the numbers were so low, there were still some over votes, but it was not a high number, so i left that out under the same reasoning as one can it also does not the same type of voting patterns in the system. then, in order to say 0.19%, 0.48%, what does that mean in comparison? i took that as a percent, the citywide average of that neighborhood. for example, bayview hunters point, the first on the list, under rank choice voting, they have 82.75% error rate

the city on thursday. peabody school in particular is one of the key sites in our district. even on the web site that was created, you can look at maps that helped parents figure out safer route to get their children to school. i am appreciative of the different partners at work with the department of public health and school district, including the bicycle coalition to make every day a safe day to buy can walk to school. i also want to acknowledge a think it's one of the great efforts not only to involve families but our departments in making our streets safer for everyone and multi-modal people from drivers to walkers to bikers to get everywhere in our city. as far as making a more livable and walkable district, i am working closely with the recreation and parks department on a hearing coming up not just for my district, but for districts 4 and 7, in golden gate park, at the hall of flowers building. this is an effort to get input on a new bond that would come forward to fund our parks and playgrounds in

in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for

there was not one city that i liked, but as far as i'm concerned, san francisco is so beautiful that i would like to design 15 cities in russia that look like san francisco." [laughter] and he was right. [applause] my wonderful wife, my family is here. i'm thrilled. thank you very much. i must say -- excuse me, i have to mention one thing. i have never seen anything in my life as beautiful as these young people. [applause] you stand so beautiful. [applause] -- you sang so beautiful. [applause] >> it is tony bennett day in san francisco. [applause] just fantastic. now, before we leave here today, just one more time, let's hear that special song one more time, now performed by the talented san francisco gay men's chorus, who will be joined by -- yes -- who will be joined by all of our performers here today and then all of you. you can sing along by following the lyrics on the screens. ladies and gentlemen, the san francisco gay men's chorus. [applause] ♪ >> ♪ the loveliness of paris seems some house sadly -- somehow sadly gay the glory that was rome is of another day i've been terribly

if we want to compete in san francisco, we cannot just rely on our city's good looks. we have to do something about it. i want to thank those who worked on this legislation with me, especially our film commission. i want to thank my staff and members for the controller's office. we spent a lot of time putting together a solid economic forecast. finally, while this legislation extends the existing film rebate program in its current form for another two years, and adds another $2 million to draw from, we have spent a lot of time in my office speaking with different members of the film industry -- from companies, producers. suzanne robinson has been evangelizing san francisco in los angeles recently. how can we make the film program better, to attract the next generation of films and television shows in our city? i am interested in making this more attractive down the road. my only requirement was that we do it in a cost-effective and responsible manner. those discussions are continuing. although today we are introducing a continuation of our existing program, my hope is i