on our programs. but basically we have our programs for our city are divided into 4 areas. civic operations, we have two graffiti removal vans that clean graffiti on our civic property alone. we do enhanced clean up, we have a contractor that does some additional clean up on city property as well as the clean up that's done by operational departments in the city. and interdepartment coordination is key. we have an operations department, operations committee that's made up of representatives from all the operations areas in the city and through that we coordinate all of our clean up on city infrastructure and we have all of our complaints come in through 311, which is the recording for the city of edmonton for all -- any complaint, recreation sign up, anything comes through 311. but we do manage our calls through that service. we have 4 seasonal bylaw officers that are dedicated to graffiti enforcement. this is -- yeah? >> how many people live in edmonton? >> there's about a million people in edmonton there's about a million. we have 4 seasonal officers that work only on graf

that cities are already well on the path to soft, informal global governance. not an executive authority with a mandate telling people what to do through laws made but a group of cities and mayors and counselors and citizens working together across borders voluntarily developing best practices, exploring common urban vir chow to solve problems states have proven no longer able to take care of. and i will bore you with it here. it's boring. important as it is. i name for you the inner-city networks that already in operation doing important business around the globe. you would be shocked and suppress a long yaun. the names are boring and bureaucratic. the reality is great. one of the most important institutions nobody has ever heard of, for example, is the united cities and local governments uclg. 3,000 cities and local authorities that meet globally every year and the networking cities around work and environment, transportation, immigration, secure city, and a number of other issues. i hadn't heard of it two years ago. i doubt too many people here other than the

such a common practice in our city and cities across the country, that it has learned a name as recently reported in the new york times called apple picking. one study by the fcc 30 to 40 percent of robberies in several major cities involve cell phones, last year the sfpd reported that more than half of the 4,000 robberies between january and august in san francisco involved smart phones or tablets. new york city reported that more than 40 percent of all robberies involved cell phones, and los angeles, reported that 25 percent of all robberies involved cell phones. these robberies sometimes turn violent, whether or not the victim fights back. we have seen some very alarming instances, for example, in my district and the castro and in college hill, where people were attacked in addition to having their phones robbed. and these robberies don't just take place in central locations where people people congregate. recently, for example there was a rash of armed robberies of smart phones in corbit street in my district and a quiet residential area in broad daylight in the middle of the day. so people are understandable alarmed. we need to address th

he is talking about new plans for healthy d.c., and one city, one nation, and one city is his theme, so a lot of people in the community -- i went to an event last week where pretty much his constituency out of ward five, ward seven and ward eight actually participated in the event. and it showed the stronghold that vince gray still has in the city. >> joe, he makes a good point. we have the tremendous surplus, and he is taking new initiatives with like lines, and gardens on roof tops -- >> i am not that excited about roof top gardens. >> nor is marion barry on that one. >> but if he can get past the legal issue that is overshadowing this whole possible run, i think he's -- he's a mayor who is at the right time at the right place. for example, look at all the construction. now the reality is that's not his initialation. those are usually projects that were started by previous mayors, but the mayor who is in office at the time the cranes go up get the credit for it, and that always happens. >> sure. >> so the reality is, jerry is 100% correct, if he decides to run he is sitting beauti

one city manager fire chief might retire. ought up at city or state of the valley conconvenience this morning in san jose z it's suregi-ñ to spak a lot of debate. >> david, thank you. a study by the business journal ranks san jose on the list of best cities for small business growth. san jose is number 10, san francisco, oakland coming in at 13. >> abc news has new video of 5-year-old ethan, the boy surviving a week in a hostage standoff in an underground bunker in alabama. he's been back home since tuesday. abc news reporter david muir spoke to his brother in an exclusive interview. >> this morning an abc news exclusive. the first home movies and malgs from his sixth birthday party. the partyqúp&s his family and tn had been praying for. days before turning six he was snatched from a school bus and dragged to a underground bunker. >> tvccuÑ child appears physically unharmed and being treated at a local hospital. the subject is deceased. >> in the first interview ethan's brother tell meeg about text messages the family would ge

city. and some of the other things you're seeing on the map is the approved businesses, the businesses are currently doing business in the city. one of the things we said once we started visualizing on the map the slow and more rapid growth of residential -- residential property in soma and then in 2011 you just saw obviously a huge residential boom in the downtown area. so, we've just actually -- we're a company in southern california. we just relocated up here, small little office in san francisco, trying to better understand the community moving at a fast pace here. part of doing that is working with the city and better understanding how we can support open data. so, thank you. (applause) >> good morning, everybody. can you hear me? good morning and welcome to the hatchery. this is our newest space. my name is rajul pakash, i'm one of the founders. along with my other partners, chris and richy in the back, and lawrence who could not make it. welcome to 6 45 harrison and the hatchery. it's super exciting to have such a dynamic group of people from both the public and private sector here t

only 10 percent of our graffiti in those neighborhoods was observed, was on city infrastructure. other government considered 19 percent and of that 97 percent was on canada post boxes like they are the drop boxes that the mail carriers use for picking up their mail to deliver. they are being phased out, though, so again within the next year or so, those boxes are going to be phased out in edmonton so we'll see if it makes a change in graffiti results. but it also assists us in terms of how we approach them. so we take this information to canada post and basically say, get rid of the gray boxes. so, conclusions. edmonton's method for auditing graffiti vandalism is unbiased and effective as far as we've been able to determine. we use the results to work with the edmonton police service to determine our other services. the graffiti index and intensity index allow for specific locations within the neighborhood. we found we had significant results over the first year, in terms of the decrease 42.7 percent and while we have leveled off this year, we are confident that by analyzing the n

share; we think you should work to find spaces on our city streets for that not permitting developers or people who currently own buildings to expand the amount of allowable parking that they have. one legislative aide told me that owners of buildings and developers get away with things, they continually get conditional use permits to expand the amount of parking they have. that's the problem. we need to halt the problem. we should not be adding more cars to the city streets. thank you. >> supervisor wiener: one thing i did neglect to mention in my opening comments is we wanted the amendment that we added in the request of the planning department is that in order to use the legislation use for your parking spots; you're seeking to go above and beyond your disqualified. your disqualified. your disqualified. president chiu? >> supervisor chiu: from my perspective my support of car sharing is one believing that this is a set of policies that will your point remove cars off the street and decrease congestion. for every car share that is available in san franciscocars off the street. this

city officials say they are planning -- they want to get ready for the next one to get in their cityossibly super bowl 2018. >> new orleans looking good and so is beyonce. check this out. ♪ oh say can you see >> a little sneak peek there. the singer belted out an impromptu performance of "the national anthem" and after she finished, any questions? some say it was her way to silence critics that she lip-synched at the presidential inauguration. >> sounding fantastic. >>> 4:55 right now. let's check that morning commute with mike. how are we looking? >> good morning, guys. i can tell you absolutely that my lip-synching is totally real. >> you do that really well. >> thank you. thank you. no tricks. we're looking over here. this is a trick of camera. this is san mateo bridge where we are looking at weird lighting situation. it looks like it's totally foggy there but it's not. there's some smudges on the lens making it cloudy and also propane tank in the foreground, it's bright white reflecting so that's the optical illusion. the bridge is clear as far as flow and visibility. wanted to p

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

city. you got to speak more than one language.nd i made sure that our kids spoke at least two additional languages. because we wanted them to be citizens of the world. and they have done right, now they are happier as a result. this is a standard of life we have in our city. one that we created out of our struggles. and that's why i am happy to be here with the counsel general gao and with the counsel of philippines and vietnam. so many of the countries that are looking towards hope and light in america see san francisco as the gateway. for ideas to happen and for exchanges to happen. and for celebrations for who we are, and who we have been about. and whether music or art or cultural exchanges. we have an appreciation for the diverse culture. this is special for our city. i want to express a deep appreciation for the asian-american foundation that is a part of this celebration today. along with those who have created their own resources to make this happen. and as carmen said the ninth year we had. we are very lucky to be in san

not only that's correct but we put every volunteer on our city's workers' compensation program, every single one. so, if there was a problem they were covered under the city's workers' comp program. and we had zero claims. and then we also inherited an antilitter program. we had over 14,000 antilitter volunteers. they weren't using the chemicals or anything like that, but we had same thing, no problems, no complaints, no liability issues at all. and we only gave solvent to adults. we didn't give solvents to any minors. and we made sure that the solvents that we gave were going to be ones that, number one, could do the job, but -- number one, was safe if they got the right training and number two, could do the job that we needed to have done. it worked out great. so. >> [speaker not understood]. >> hold on a second. let me come over here so you can restate the first part of your question again if i could get you to stand up and we'll talk to the san francisco police department here. >> first part of my question

thank you very much. >> can i make -- >> yes, one orthoon the city school district i am meeting with supervisor kim tomorrow and she wants to just have one meeting a month and not the two. >> [inaudible] >> right. she just wants -- it's been twice a month but one gets canceled so she only wants to -- she is going to say i'm only doing one per month. >> [inaudible] >> yeah and they will stay on thursdays at 330 and i believe it's the third thursday. i actually think she wanted that but i will confirm that tomorrow with her. >> okay thank you everybody. commissioner wynns. >> i couldn't hear any of you it except it's about the select committee which i am a member of. >> we'll have ms. cast codistribute this to the board but the information was supervisor kim, former commissioner kim will only have selected committee once a month and the plan is the third thursday at 3:00 p.m. >> thank you. >> okay. now, other board delegates to membership organizations. miss casco i was going to name commissioner haney to that. do i do that now? >> you can. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> i was wai

one city is helping a hand. residents trying to get businesses off the ground. >> rain is spreading into the area. just on cue for the evening commute. and a little snow too. we'll see that. emphasis on a little bit . first look at your forecast is coming up. stay with us.  >>> sugary drinks are being blamed for causing health problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. along with leading scientists and other groups called on the fda to step in and determine a safe level of sugar for beverages. michael jacobson is the executive director. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> let me start off with your critics to say the food police, talking about you guys shg need to stay out of their kitchens and out of their mouths. why not let people decide what think choose to eat or drink? >> they are not choosing entirely on their own. coca cola spends $2 billion encouraging people to drink sugary drinks. and the scientific evidence is crystal clear that drinking as much sod

our next meeting will be on march friday 15 from one to 4:00 p.m. here in city hall in room 400. please call the mayor's office for further information or tty4 one five-5554, 6799. or you may email us at modat sof .org and please speak slowly into the microphone to assist our captioners and interpreters. we thank you for joining us. >> thank you skip. and now heather from the mayor's office on disability will now call the roll. >> (calling roll). >> and sary berget will be participating by the bridge line and mr. wong is excused absense. now the reading of the agenda. welcome introduction and roll call. action item, reading approval of the agenda. three, public comment, items not on the agenda but within jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to three minutes. four, report from the chair. five, report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. six, presentation by bevan dufty, director of the mayor's office of hope. at 2:30 p.m. there will be a break. the council will take about a 10 minute break. seven, senior and disability action, a presentation by jessica

years ago, but i am doing the same thing i was doing 20 years ago, trying to find out what is going on at city hall. every department here needs to go over their contracts. for instance ttys signed contract that you don't know nothing about. there's a lot of things going on, i'm going to be here to let you know. i have been here starting city hall for over 20 years. specifically the last five years and the new administration. things -- and dwayne jones. because of the african-american outmigration. every department of the city affects us, african-americans. i know you don't want to hear that but somebody has to be up here and i will be here at every opportunity i can until city hall opens up their eyes to realize that the african-american black negroes are in a state of emergency in san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker. >> can you hear me? good afternoon supervisors my name is george shank (sounds like) - speaking as vice president of the asian-american contractors associations. we brought this legislation and discussed that among our membership and the board. this is a straightforward pi

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot and before i be a slave i'll be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free no more violence no more violence no more violence over me over me and before i be a slave i'll be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free >> i want y'all to sing it with me now. ♪ oh, oh, freedom oh, freedom o freedom over me over me and before i be a slave i'll be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free (applause) >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i'm al williams, president of the board of directors of san francisco african-american historical and cultural society. on behalf of the society and our co-presenters, the san francisco african

maybe you and i can point as one. city, maybe you and i can be as one. and -- appoint the city better. make me wish there were 24 hours to each city day. appoint me something good. >> thank you mr. paulson. any of the members of the public? >> i have been administrator for the assessment appeals board. i'm here to answer any questions. >> i apologize for not bringing you up earlier. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. (gavel) we have four applicants for four seats; helps ease the process for us. great to see four very qualified applicants. it is great to see mr. watts who has served as an alternate now apply for one of the seats of the assessment appeals board. it's a lot of work and it is important work. we appreciate the volunteer spirit in applying for these positions. >> make a motion to move mr. tham for seat 2, mr. watts for seat 5, ms. crowser for seat 8. ifmr. spertzel seat 6. gvl (gavel) >> item four. assessment appeals board. four seats, nine applicants. >> i believe several c