it helps to restrict the sale or distribution of bottled water on city property. it sets city policy to increase the availability of drinking water in public areas. and it generally bar the use of city funds to purchase bottled water. ~ bars folk who have asked why we are moving forward with this legislation ~ and i want it remind people that it was not long ago that our world was not addicted to plastic water bottles. it wasn't until the 1990s that the now $60 billion plastic bottle water industry experienced an enormous growth based on massive marketing and distribution campaigns. and before that for centuries, everyone managed to stay hydrated. in 1976 the average american drank 1.6 gallons of water a year. 30 years later that number increase today an average of 28 gallons per person. today americans buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week, which is enough to circle the globe twice, and americans drink more bottled water than any other nation. in san francisco, [speaker not understood] alone collects 10 to 15 million single use plastic water bot

our citizen technology we launched one hundred cities challenge by 2015 all one hundred cities will be chosen and each will receive 4 support first to have an officer that will be the central contract to cooperate and oversee and perspire intents and work across our losses in municipal government. we're pleased to announce that san francisco has selected their chief realigns officer in the front row here you know from the earthquake and we're working with other cities. the second we think that the cities get is the support for the chief realigns officer to lead the strategies of the city. third cities in this network and that is really quite an innovation will have access to an integrated platform of services ledger millions of dollars of resources far beyond our initial one hundred million to support the reliance strategy those clus include the spurring for investments and infrastructure and new uses of the data and stools ease realigns land use and building design and new forms of municipal catastrophe insurance >> other innovative insurance that exist on this platform

your consideration of our legislation to hopefully [speaker not understood] plastic water bottles on city property. in recent months as we've all seen the extreme water conditions and drought in our country, in our world, the need to combat global warming cannot be more urgent. as our city has led the fight for the environment, we need to be a leader to our addiction in plastic bottled water. our world was not addicted to plastic bottled water. only in the 1990s did the now $60 billion plastic bottled water experience growth based on marketing campaigns. but before that, [speaker not understood], everyone around the world has managed to stay hydrated. in 1976, the average american drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water a year. in 2007 that number has increase today an average of over 28 gallons per person. today americans buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week, enough to circle the globe twice. americans drink more bottled water than any other country. in our city where ecology alone collects 10 to 15 million sing the use plastic bottled water bottles a year and that doesn't

u sf has 3 locates in san francisco primarily on the center of the city there's two other locations at the presidio and 101 howard the historic coffee building. in the fatal semester of 2013, the enforcement was 10 thousand students 85 hundred is it so on the hilltop and in 2012 over 1 thousand employees live in san francisco. the hilltop campus is 52 acres on two sites the upper campus known as alone mountain is to the north and parker to the west and the lower is masonic to the east and faculty ton to the west it is 150u7bd by neighborhoods. there are 28 neighborhood there's a mix of uses on the upper and lower campuses with recreational and student life. the i mp imposes a program it allows u sf the growth rate on the campus to less than one percent with an average over 10 years there's 23 project identified in the program. this is a drawing of the canvassing campus with the existing buildings in white and the future ones in orange. it proposes two alternate sites it sits on tucker boulevard and this might be 75 thousand square feet and 3 stories tell you it will house the universit

he's one of the cities representatives on the city commission and he was in the task force and has become an advocate for muni and transportation he's not miscarried to take on difficult issues and this one fits the bill i'm happy to be joined by supervisor weiner (clapping.) so as ed noted district 8 which is the castro and parts of the mission and other neighborhoods has been we've been on both sides of this issue. i have a lot of commits who rally on those shuttles day in and anti who need to get to work and we also have a lot of shuttles going through our neighborhoods that has caused concerns about the bus stops and other issue. i'm really thrilled that the mta it moving forward with a balanced prove that to have better coordination particularly with our bus stops and making sure the shultsz can use them and have cost recovery for the use of those stops. as well as making sure that the muni buses can efficiently use them. you but looking at the bigger picture we need to stop politicizing people's ability to get to work. thousands and thousands even if san franciscans san francisco re

one city's action and the cost to residents.hen at 10:30, there are glasses like no other and now there is a growing backlash mixing googles technology with happy hour. >>> a neighbor took these pictures of a massive natural gas explosion in trenton, new jersey. new jersey officials say two contractors hit a gas line, and called the utility company to help. the injured workers were from the utility company. they suffered broken bonus, and shrapnel wounds. >>> now to the ukraine. more tense moments when unarmed ukrainian workers marched toward russian troops. the russians fired warning shots over the heads of the ukrainians to force them to stop after several minutes, the situation was defused. russian president vladimir putin says he was keeping the use of force open. president obama acknowledged russia has interest in ukraine, but said it has no right to use force. >> there is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. >> secretary of state john kerry was in kiev today. he laid flowers at a memorial fo

city of how we can allow event sponsors to access city controlled and operated water supplies as well as to investigate installing plumbing equipment on existing water systems so that the public can access water in park sites. and it also states that once this ordinance passes, it will be the city policy, the policy of san francisco that any city department that undertakeses the capital improvement in a park, plaza, playground, or other public space shall install bottle filling stations, drinking fountains and or potable water hookups for public use. so, again, we're really trying to build this in. there is a lot more work that needs to be done and the sfpuc by the end of -- middle part of this year will give us an inventory what we need to do. >> that's great, okay. thank you very much. supervisor kim? >> thank you. i'm not actually sure who this question is best directed to. i'm very supportive of this legislation. i'm really glad to see that we are moving forward for all the reasons that were already stated in the findings in the presentation. but i have a couple questions. one, i was curious if we have a map of where most of our s

city this is on page 3. city officers and employees may lawfully use city resources [speaker not understood] potential impact of a ballot measure on city operations. the analysis must be made available to the public. so, i think that's a helpful reminder to city departments it will be performing this analysis. >> if i may. some of the questions that were included in this request were drafted by people that had taken a position against the measure. and will there be an opportunity for people who may have a different perspective to, you know, request that perhaps other information be considered? >> most certainly, i think requests for information are always, always helpful. and the more information, the better. again, we will be leaving this to the impacted or subject area departments to scope that analysis and to perform it in a way that conforms with this political activities memo, not making the case one way or another, because facts can be malleable, but in fact presenting the most impartial -- presenting t

family to have information they need [inaudible] this measure would support the effortss going on the la city counsel and state wide. i urge your support to help us require the soda industry to set the record straight on how harmful the products are especially to children. also i'm interdouching a resolution with the support of community based groups like the nicko [inaudible] many others in the department of public health. behavior services that declared march 2014 problem gamblinging awareness month. [inaudible] also, i wanted to say i come from a family of gambers and many parts of my childhood remember filled with family trips to reno and tahoe and vegas. i know that is common for many chinese immigrants as well. [inaudible] alsotory comp nation that play this up in low indm communethies that is more prevalent. [inaudible] 6 to 8 million americans including 1 poi 2 california meet the requirements for problem gambling. problem gambling is defined as the type of gambling behavior that causes problems in any area of life. [inaudible] speerlual or emotional. one of my friends [inaudible] he

one city's action and the cost to residents.hen at 10:30, there are glasses like no >>> a neighbor took these pictures of a massive natural gas explosion in trenton, new jersey. new jersey officials say two contractors hit a gas line, and called the utility company to help. the injured workers were from the utility company. they suffered broken bonus, and shrapnel wounds. >>> now to the ukraine. more tense moments when unarmed ukrainian workers marched toward russian troops. the russians fired warning shots over the heads of the ukrainians to force them to stop after several minutes, the situation was defused. russian president vladimir putin says he was keeping the use of force open. president obama acknowledged russia has interest in ukraine, but said it has no right to use force. >> there is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. >> secretary of state john kerry was in kiev today. he laid flowers at a memorial for those killed in last month's protest. he announced the u.s. would provide a $1 bill

college in one of the most progressive cities in the world run by one individual. i have some problems with that one individual's qualifications and decisions. however, even if i thought he was doing a good job -- and i would never accuse him of that -- [laughter] >>> certainly he can't replace 7 members of the board of trustees and a student trustee. for example, over the years when we've had problems in negotiations, we've brought in our labor and community allies and met with the board and resolved those issues amicably for the most part, and justifiably so in terms of contract gains. we've heard a lot about the instructional quality at city college. city college also has a reputation for having one of the most enlightened personnel policies in the country. i also think that the accjc, not an organization i have any respect for, pay no attention to these kind of positive personnel relations or quality of the instruction. so, my -- i would pose the question to you. many of us are teachers and teachers need to be graded as administ

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it has two salient provisions to protect san franciscans against city government corruption and bin alt. one is direct consultants, they are lobbyist and should be treated as lobbyist. this ordinance does that. the second is the developer self disclosure requirements with respect contributions to non-profit entities which lobby at city hall and lobby on behalf of or depending on the position against they particularly act by the board or even an ordinance proposed to the board. very important. i think you should consider whether the reporting limit should be reduced from $5,000 to $1,000. these are entities like the san francisco planning urban renewal association which obtained almost all their funding from entities which have affairs in business with city hall and with city government or the other one of the housing operation supposedly. let me just point out one tactical problem that mr. herrera and mr. chiu may want to address and that's on page 13 of the ordinance with definition of a non-profit organization which is based on the word active refers to any entity that within the past 2 ye

of watered bottle 21-ounces or less on city places. the plan requires more water fountain it is and refillable bottle stations. >> they said bottle water is unnecessary. it creates waste. >> reporter: in this cartoon the international the bottled water association says most people won't carry containers and actually encourages consumers to turn to drinks higher calorie. >> not very convenient right. i mean if i'm walking around i do not want to carry a big water bottle from home. >> i think a lot of people prefer the convenience of that and i don't like it would affect the local businesses so much. >> reporter: businesses such as this one who's owner says she'll take a bit o after financial hit. >> i think ultimately it's going to give us and tut for substitute for something else we can make ourselves. >> reporter: it's set to faze in late year and cover all event on city proper by 2016. ktvu, 2 news. >>> turning now to california's drought and how it could cause water bills to go up. the city must look for alternative sources of water

city. i really feel that san francisco doesn't differ the title as the number one sustainable city in the u.s. because it's not doing enough and especially, if they take out the san francisco power sf, you know, plan program out of this strategy it doesn't make sense. i mean, if you take a train in german and look out the window you see hundred dollars of housing with solar cells the government helps with that. recently, there was a electrical power plant was shut down. it makes vehicular sense even in korea and other countries we're not working hard enough. we're a waste we're into that. in the past few years we've shut down recycling centers in this town. there's over thirty spshlths in this town are paying for the privilege of not having a recycling center and we're going to shut down the recycling center at the church and market. we should make more of a commitment if we want to deserve the title the number one sustainable city in the u.s. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm patricia jackson the con veteran of the great panthers we've been behind clean p

and is in line with the city's history of being progressive ~ on our policy innovation. just some examples of what other cities have done, the city of blooming ton, indiana's website content management is an open source project. the veterans administration has been using open source for medical record since 2011. [speaker not understood] already seeing the financial benefits from moving from microsoft office to open document formatting. they have expected to save 50 million pounds, that's about $80 million per year just from that one change. so, if you imagine as an individual user when you buy microsoft how much that costs for an individual person, how much local government spends on making sure that every desktop and city government employees have that software in effect. the white house said in 2011 we believe in contributing to open source software as a way for the government to share data, and return value to taxpayer. not only is the software free, it's also one if we improve our software on open source, it gets improved for other municipalities or companies that ar

on a. the city manager did not return our calls. >> the city manager has put out an order that no one in the city talks to the press. my question is why is the city manager want to hide? >> the city manager has suggested money might be an issue. a could cost close to half a million dollars to relocate residents here using section eight vouchers. and though some still have questions about the evacuation ... >> where we going to go. >> marshall says she's ready. >> it's time for the building to be evacuated. >> in richmond kristen ayres kpix5. >> the city of richmond will likely pay for the evacuations of its general fund. >>> phase in the night getaway with an atm full of cash, but that's not the only thing they stole to do the job. >>> a surprising discovery this man made when he googled himself. he ended up turning himself in to police. >>> and we will have your hot forecast coming up in a moment. stay tuned this morning in sonoma coun. e suspects pried ope . >>> police are searching for two thieves who stole an atm from a gas station convenience store this morning in sonoma county. the sus

our city's ability to improve our capital infrastructure is one of the most important issues for our city. as san francisco continues on its economic revival and the transparent manner, the voters of san francisco have declared it's crucial for the government to keep up with our evolving city. having spent much of the past years with labor representative, with local 21, i now serve as a director of research and communications for local 216789 . i have worked with the city on impressive capital project including the water improvement plan and san francisco rebuild. through all of this whether meeting with engineers, architects, elected officials or before the civil service commission i have been informed about how to handle large scale projects and understand the contracting process of the city will make me a valuable asset to this committee. as a labor attorney i have been able to work on mous and work on all civil servants on both concepts and delivery. i am proud of labor's efforts over the past couple of years such as the city has one of the highest bond ratings ever. it will run a

where i will start we're lucky san francisco is a great city and one of the most walkable city if not in the world it attracts people here. it's a great city to walk around and be in. however, we we have a problem and the problem is people are getting killed in our streets and that shouldn't be happening pr it's unacceptable people are getting killed my seriously injured it's traefblg not only for the families especially for the families to whom it happens but for our whole city but the good news is it's preventable every one of those dedicates and serious injuries is preventable. the good news behind that is that we have great leadership in the city as manifested by the strong and power showing of folks behind me that are focused and committed and dedicated to preventing those serious collisions and fatality collisions so we get the benefits of our beautiful walkable city without worrying about getting hurt or killed. at the top of that primer is our chief collective who has brought people together to solve problems. i think what we're going to talk about today is the epitomize any s

, fys 2013-2014 and 2014-2015) to reflect the addition of one grant-funded position (.25 fte) in class 0933, manager v, at the office of the city administrator, for the period of april 1, 2014, through march 31, 2016. >> in order to hire the chief officer, position and also to amend the annual salary ordinance >> good morning, to add one grant funded position, in order to serve as the chief resil ans officer, also referred to as cro, the rockefeller foundation, through the 100 city challenge in the process of developing a worldwide network to insure people and communities and systems are better prepared to understand the events and recover, fast and her stronger from the shocks and stresses, san francisco was lucky to be selected as one of three cities to participate in the year of the 100 year city challenge, to support san francisco in this challenge, they have awarded the city to fully fund the benefits for the chief officer within the city for a period of 2 years. the chief officer will be the primary point of contact to interact with the staff and the newly created global network of cros and the cro will provide the centra

what's going on in this city because the housing is a mess. it's really a big mess. and thank you so very much. and i would like for you all to put the number on me, but i want you all to check into all of these things that 40% of my people are [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> supervisors, in this auguste chamber, the least you can do is provide us that podium where we can speak as we spoke -- a we used to speak for a long time. the least you can do is search that podium because this is like a mickey mouse thing. i was listening to you all. if y'all want to have saturday live [speaker not understood] of this board of chambers, y'all can have it privately, have it taped. but what i feel seriously about the chamber is that, having attended so many meetings for the last 30 years, is that it's going from bad to worse. and you know that, but we speak about this, that and the other. but i wonder if y'all are compassionate enough to really know the impact of the constituents of san francisco. a lot of them are hurti

i would not be supportive of any kind exemption like rh one some suggested that's covers a board basis because of the city. the rh d is a much for limited i'm looking a map that the planning department sent us to the rh d zoning it's limited. so when you're talking about rh d one neighborhoods that have the cc and rs that's something i'm sympathetic to the arguments 69 very limited geography it should be take into account in addressing those o this subject today and it's been raised in the past. i'm supportive of this elective it's long overdue and thank you xhooupt >> thank you. i want to thank you all for your feedback on this complicated elective. two remaining issues around gene. i understand that the dbi as city attorney harassing have come up with language to address hopefully and protect the aminity of homeowners who don't have hazards and i want to ask the city attorney to reading record what he proposes and thank you for your work and dbi >> deputy city attorney john gibner again. we suggest adding language to the end of section one 06 a point one .3 b titled imminent subsequential hazards. based

in your city town i'll be around just call me on the city hall phone and i'll be there and even if iave to crawl i'll be there i'll be around ♪ and one last thing, supervisor avalos. ♪ happy birthday looks like you made it happy birthday supervisor avalos supervisor avalos, look like you made it look like you made it looks like happy birthday you made it ♪ (applause) >> next speaker. [speaker not understood], please, thanks. >>> good evening. i just came to kind of talk about the whole like ride share sort of community, like ride share thing. i've been like a pedi cab driver in san francisco for like three years. you know, that's all regulated. and i just switched to becoming a taxi driver, you know, pay the city like quite a bit of change. and, you know, now like i ride my bike and i'll see like ubers lifts, and taxises, i'll pull over for someone waving. you know, i'm like these companies, they're just kind of like out there advertising facebook pan door a getting people on board with this new program. ~ i don't know what the point of this is. it's like there are so many cars out t

seeks its approval at the location that it is thinking of putting a child care center whereas a city funded one does. the supervisor chiu's willingness to go forward and taking a look at the rich tradition of advocacy by nonprofits in this city, the rich role played by nonprofits in forming health and human service, and affordable housing policies in this city is greatly appreciated and we look with keen anticipation upon being able to reach an agreement with the supervisor and the board of supervisors exempting nonprofits from its [inaudible]. >> thank you. >>> good morning. i'm jonathan vernick, i'm the executive director of baker places, celebrating nearly three decades with the organization. and one of the things that i've had an opportunity to do over the years is, starting way back during the aids epidemic and since in terms of providing adequate residential treatment sites for substance abuse, for mental health and so forth, is to work closely with board of supervisors often in an educated manner so that since our folks have kind of on the ground, we can provide information about the kin

in exchange. >> as a more practical matter, i pose it because of what i see as horrible impacts on other city services if we have to set aside 40% of the general fund budget for the police department. >> i believe allowing residents to have a say by voting on the most important service a city can provide is an opportunity that should be granted by the city council today. >> council members are running for mayor this year and they have said public safety is a top priority. >>> tonight, a crowd of more than a thousand mourners gathered to remember a teenager that had a contagious smile. the 14-year-old was killed after a train hit her this past weekend. terry mcsweeney attended the tribute and joins us live with more. terry? >> reporter: a very emotional tribute. ♪ some friends sang in tribute. candles lit in her honor. among the first to speak tonight, jenna's sister, julia. >> one of the most beautiful angels ever. now she's in a better place and protected by god. >> reporter: jenna and her friend were walking by the railroad tracks on sunday. she lunged back to pick up a cell phone she dropp

city doing? is it working? what we found out, tonight. >> that is an important story. >> yes. >> one thing the city is doing to state a school crossing guard program that got underway today where one group waved signs and helped people across the street. the superintendent, himself once a crossing guard remembers how it made him aware of the safety laws. >> and i could stop traffic and wow, powerful. but it created an awareness about the rule had you do you follow rules? >> triple a providing to bring hats and sashs that the guards will wear. >> hundreds of women left an event today inspired. it is the ninth year for east bay womens conference. it provides women an opportunity to come together and take part in development programs this year's speakers included rita moreno and abc news political common tatar coky roberts. remarkable event. >> fantastic. >> yes. spencer? pitter patter of rain drops evident. >> we love this. as a matter of fact down on embarcadero, puddles are forming. this is not a heavy rainfall. it's stety. this is an area of heaviest concentration. we've got rain moving towards san francisco n

city college was on a course of unsubstantial financial and governs decisions and just because we don't like the diagnoses we ignore the unthinkable your urgent need for treatment but because we have a strong leadership in place city college is on the path to full reform. under the leadership of the new chandler nick and with the full support of california chancellor we're making overdue reformed for the long-term health. city college has earned the right to be taken off the cliff of europe certainty and given the improvements i'll ask the state of california to continue in spite of the recent dips (clapping) i call about the accreditation commission to release the cliff that hangs over city college for the future. you know, a true affordability agenda must also include having a great transportation system one that save and a r50ib8 for everybody. our der59 roads and ingress population demand we make greater dpand in our infrastructure for the future. we made n some modest improvements and we paved a record 4 blocks in our street conditions and our streets are slowing improving. you lik

on city streets, osgood road continues to be closed north of auto mall park. we are talking about around the bend and toward the infirmary district. we have this video from a couple of minutes ago. major crash here. we just got an update. mother involved in this crash, non-life threatening injuries but her 4-year-old daughter still has life threatening injuries and that's the latest update from bob redell who continues to give us updates from the scene. another driver was involved and he has some more details as they come in from freemont police. we'll get back to the maps and talk about the other tri-valley build that's starting just starting right now. watch 58 ofality aelt month. 580 is at the speed limit right here toward el charo. no problems over to the castro valley "y." >>> still ahead, we'll introduce you to a ukrainian man preparing to drive across country to raise awareness about the crisis in his homeland. >>> plus, what we've just learned from the first witness to testify in the murder trial of olympian oscar pistorius. one of the best things abou

water on city property. the goal is to cut plastic waste. more drinking fountains and refillable bottle stations be built. >> there are many options other than from a wasteful plastic water bottle experience. >> they say bottled water is unnecessary. it creates waste. >> in this cartoon, the international bottled water association says most people won't carry refillable containers and that bans encourage consumers to turn to drinks high in calories. >> norman bought drinks that were available, sugary drinks, also packaged in plastic. >> it's not very convenient. if i'm walking around, i don't want to be carrying a big water battle. >> the ban is getting mixed reviews. >> i think a lot of people prefer the convenience. >> businesses such as this one whose owner says she'll take a financial hit. >> i think ultimately, going to give us an opportunity to substitute for something we can make ourselves. >> the ban won't affect races, such as beta breakers. it is set to phase in late this year and completely cover

in the richmond district coming up on saturday, we're having the city's mobile rec coming to one of our newly renovated parks in the richmond district. it's the folsom playground and it's from 11:00 to 2:00 p.m. i challenged my colleagues on the board and your staffs as well to learn how to skateboard with me. i'll claim the rock climbing structure with you as well, but i want you to come out and join us as we have a fun day with rec and park staff and others to really look at how we can increase physical fitness and activity within our neighborhoods. so, join us on saturday. also, it's the san francisco unified school district youth arts festival coming up from march 15th through the 23rd at the asian art museum. and thanks so much to jay and his staff for accommodating the great young artists from our school district and all the schools in san francisco. it really shows what creativity has been generated from our arts education work in the school district and throughout the city. for the past 28 years, the unique san francisco event, young and art, formerly young and art, ha brought t

legislation that covers a variety of different topics and my office continues to work with our city attorney on a wide a n array of legislation. our city attorney has arrived, herrera, white, gibner and advocates for strong ethics and transparency laws. we have worked together for a number of was no put this packet together and attend this hearing to let folks know that we are kicking off this discussion and hopefully in the coming weeks we'll be able to have some clarity over a few remaining issues that are outstanding before we come back to this committee and ask for our committee to move this out to the full board. with that, i would like to invite up our city attorney mr. herrera for some comments. >> thank you, mr. president and members of the board and thank you for the opportunity to come and spend a couple minutes to talk about this legislation forum today. first i want to thank and congratulate president chu for all of his hard work over the last year. you may recall that supervisor chiu and i introduced this legislation last year and at the time announced it was our belief that thises

conversations of housing and making sure we have infrastructure and parks and open space on the western side of the city you enjoy those types of of the lecturers but there on the south side of the city we've got transportation challenges to address. so for this conversation we're here to discuss housing and mr. chiu thank you and for your leadership. i'm again open to the discussion around in-laws. i want to go on record for recognizing the in law units in the assessing and i'm happy to support in without a positive recommendation >> supervisor kim. >> you brought up an interesting conversation i'm interested in the section 8 who you report to and what address do you report. >> so i think the question acres from the spelling the last name of the legality of it there's section 8 vouchers to keep the main house from going into foreclosure but how to get the legal units to a legal place. you think about the affordable housing and the influx of african-american and the deplorable conditions in the illegal units those are of great concern for me >> so thank you colleagues. i just want to reiterate in terms