so they cannot come to you until they have exercised or exhausted their complete with a city or state official. -- or exhausted their complete with a city or state official. >> i just want to remind everyone, 67.30c, which is where the ethics commission has the jurisdiction to hear cases that we sent to you for enforcement. i think the plain language of that is very clear, that it is in our purview to hold hearings about complaints that are brought to us, and we have a very lengthy process for doing this. then when we decide the order has not been complied with, after all of this time and effort, we refer these cases to you for enforcement. i guess this does not seem to specify whether it is willful or not willful, or a city official or the head of a commission, so forth. >> following up on that, how do you read a 67.30c, the provision you were talking about, where you would get the task force seeking referrals to the ethics commission for nine willful violations -- non-willful violations? how does that interplay with 67.35d that we were just talking about in terms of a person being a

city of san francisco to other officials and their wives. like brown. 10 points of law, the 10 commandments. he did not comply with one single commandment ormises. that is outrageous. that is really unethical, but here is one of the best supervisors, most progressive, and you should defend him. you will not be representing our city if you do not. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> commissioners, and terry sanders with the in arrears foundation. i am a union and community organizer. i have known ross mirkarimi many, many years. he was one of the founding people to of create the reentry council. he speaks highly and often about the local job issues, helping to create jobs for disadvantaged neighborhoods. being a supervisor in district 5, going over there when they had some boxing matches, and the supervisor was there, but what i really want to talk about is our character assassination of a newspaper. it has vilified this person here every day, every day. it is news. distorted news, but it was news. i have got the news here. i have got the news here. look at it here. look at it here. sensationalism. i took a course in journalism. very distas

people who would normally -- normally, could take the bus to the opera house or city hall or other places are not going to rely on an unreliable mode of transportation. therefore, they drive, but i honestly believe you will see rare efficiencies, and i think there would be a lot of people willing to take it because they knew that there was 70 in the time, and then that connecting with the underground system that they could actually get to downtown and the like more quickly. it might even be better for some people than doing the express buses. i think we have to think about it in a larger, connected network. the larger network of how people are able to get to other places, particularly the opportunity to connect at van ness and market to so many other lines to get people from around the city, so i think that is really a great achievement. i think that we obviously need to do a lot more education. there's a lot of people concerned about parking and the turn lane issue as well. i do agree that it is important to minimize turns for transit purposes, and i do think that a lot more people who a

i look back on my work, and you can see me sort of walking through systems or cities, towns.'ve already had the opportunity to create a public artwork on a landfill at danehy park in cambridge, massachusetts. the landfill was closed in 1972, healed, and then reopened 20 years later as a park. this used to be a terrible, smelly dump. now, it's reborn. i created a piece called "turnaround surround" for the park that consists of a half-mile long, handicap access path that encircles the central mound. i used glassphalt, a mix of asphalt and recyclable glass bits that catch and reflect the light. it's symbolic of the public's power to turn things around, to bring life back to a place of decay. feldman: underlying all of this is her understanding of the history of art. many artists have made beautiful artworks dealing with materials that would be discarded. she starts with the lowest base level, our refuse, and builds beautiful artworks from that, and that's absolutely essential. it's been going on for centuries, and she just steps in and does it exactly where it matters most. ukel

what that means is that no city employee or no city resources can go towards helping ice or referring anybody to ice or disclosing any information to ice. it was meant to give people equal access to services, equal access to the city without any fear of retribution, any fear of retaliation, any fear of having their status being basically disclosed, and being deported for wanting to get health care. so it is a really important thing for us to remember that as we are thinking about comprehensive immigration reform, that we also continue to strengthen and defend sanctuary ordinance not just here in san francisco, where it has been under a lot of pressure and discussion and a lot of debate, bull also all over the country, because other cities also have a sanctuary ordinance. again, it is not about -- the way that the current dialogue that is been happening, a lot is about crime. it is actually about insuring that everybody has equal access and equal process in san francisco. so we want to put that out there and remind people that is what it is about, and we are definitely here to be able

city consider those things and leave it at that. i would be happy either to eliminate the recommendations or say that the city could consider them. but would not be my recommendation of those things are necessary. >> i'm not sure where you just said. you can live with that of someone else agrees? in or out? >> as modified by -- >> it would require additional -- >> the modification is no. member pilpel: my preference would be to include it as modified. i think we have gained experience going through this. the city and others could benefit from that experience. i would like to capture some of it. to the point of adding time, i think it would be worth starting earlier. i am not sure i am in favor of adding more time in total. if there is a charter amendment, i think it would be good for the body to include it by march 15. move the whole thing up by a month. the same amount of time the start sooner. i think there are ways to accomplish it. i think including some language about our lessons learned is good. i would favor keeping some modified language. member mondejar: i would recommend we retain this. it seems to me that the next task

people who would normally -- normally, could take the bus to the opera house or city hall or other places are not going to rely on an unreliable mode of transportation. therefore, they drive, but i honestly believe you will see rare efficiencies, and i think there would be a lot of people willing to take it because they knew that there was 70 in the time, and then that connecting with the underground system that they could actually get to downtown and the like more quickly. it might even be better for some people than doing the express buses

ethics commission will handle the alleged willful failure of an elected official, department head, or city employee perspective violations of the sunshine ordinance. we will also handle referrals from the task force of any violation of the ordinance, a willful violation of non department heads for the employees and elected officials, and non local violations as well. for non local -- for non will full violations, we will have a hearing that will have to work at the details of, which will entail the responded to showing cause why the sunshine ordinance order should not be enforced. in addition, we will have to discuss with the city's attorney's office and the commissioners specifically what sort of enforcement, penalties come up for outcomes that we will have to -- that we can and should put in place. obviously, if we enforce something, we would like to be actually able to do something and make sure that the enforcement is carried through. that is something that we will have to address. is anything that i missed? >> in june of 2010, the commission voted on three procedures. when you do the

>>reporter: tent and chair set up at the pier today but "newsnight"of the events staff or anyone from the city or wore your seen the possible announcement of warrior move to san francisco. abc 7 news. >>> wife of san francisco sheriff its setting record state in app exclusive interview with dan. he influence to lopez hometown of talk about the domestic violence case against her husband the sheriff. f. >> all that was going outside that is not true. that never happened. >> where does that come from. >> i don't know. imagination of someone. >> exclusive interview with miss lopez tomorrow night right here on abc 7 news at 11:00 o'clock. >>> just ahead. meat glue. >> i'm dan noise with 7 new it heals paces of meat tossed out. >> 7 news at 11:00 ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. it's a win

or not services are already in place. particularly with fines and application fees, thinking about these folks as an investment in the city'sfuture and trying to determine if there are micro loans or other programs that the commission or city might be able to help sponsor to make it easier for people to be able to take advantage of the law when it is passed is something that you need to start thinking about now. there are good programs at other places have tried, the state of illinois, in particular. >> thank you. you have given us a lot of food for thought. commissioners, and this concludes the >> thank you, director. thank you penlists and speakers for your testimony. at this stage, we will at the end, if you have questions carb i know one or two might have a question. i will do it after public comment. if i may, i would like at this stage to see if there is anybody in the audience who would like to talk. i have some speaker cards. i will read out your names. i believe, director, two minutes? >> that would be your call. >> i would like to hold our comments to two minutes as our time is restricted here. if you would line u

>>reporter: tent and chair set up at the pier today but "newsnight"of the events staff or anyone from the city or wore your seen the possible announcement of warrior move to san francisco. abc 7 news. >>> wife of san francisco sheriff its setting record state in app exclusive interview with dan. he influence to lopez hometown of talk about the domestic violence case against her husband the sheriff. f. >> all that was going outside that is not true. that never happened. >> where does that come from. >> i don't know. imagination of someone. >> exclusive interview with miss lopez tomorrow night right here on abc 7 news at 11:00 o'clock. >>> just ahead. meat glue. >> i'm dan noise with 7 new it heals paces of meat tossed out. >> 7 news at 11:00 continues >> 7 news at 11:00 continues right after this if. >> we have new information about another kind of meat glu glue. product that binds bits and pieces together to look like whole steak. as dan explains, you may not even know you are eating it. >>reporter: we are looking at one midwestern company that is helping processors remake meat unsellable and

it is not just related -- >> they are an outside entity or even an insight into the cause the city attorney's office based on our case. -- or even an inside entity called the city attorney's office based on our case. they basically -- part of it was the budget situation. we are starting to get to revenues coming in, which are greater than the expenses. some cases are ramping up. the money has been received. i do receive information on a monthly basis. it is usually at the end of the year. how much money we are getting. in some cases, i know how much is going to each of the entities. i do not know what they do with it, but i have to trust that other departments are doing their job. the money is not supposed to be used for a general fund the issue. again, that is another department, other than me. the second thing is that we do, you know, remain at a vigil on -- in terms of making sure that something is being done on these cases. that is being ramped up. i had to miss a couple of meetings. not only is the pressure on to start certain cases, but it is to resolve and pushe. in many cases, these p

>>reporter: tent and chair set up at the pier today but "newsnight"of the events staff or anyone from the cityen the possible announcement of warrior move to san francisco. abc 7 news. >>> wife of san francisco sheriff its setting record state in app exclusive interview with dan. he influence to lopez hometown of talk about the domestic violence case against her husband the sheriff. f. >> all that was going outside that is not true. that never happened. >> where does that come from. >> i don't know. imagination of someone. >> exclusive interview with miss lopez tomorrow night right here on abc 7 news at 11:00 o'clock. >>> just ahead. meat glue. >> i'm dan noise with 7 new it heals paces of meat tossed out. >> 7 news at 11:00 continues >> 7 news at 11:00 continues right after this ♪ ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right ♪ ♪ if being right means being without you ♪ [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, 100% whole grain oats... and that sweet honey taste. you can't go wrong loving it. b

i'm not sure if the entire area tracks 100% to a public submission, the department of elections or city planning, but i think we can still make the finding reasonably that we brought the portila together and put it in 9. what i'm hoping for is that the consulting can look at what was done and say these, we feel very comfortable and recommending that you find and these are some ones where you may need to vote and make that judgment call. because i think all of these are judgments for us to make. does that make any sense at 12:30 in the morning? >> no. apologies. >> all right. i tried. >> mr. alonso. >> i'm sorry, but somehow i cannot help but feel that we are making this a lot more complicated than it has to be. the bottom line is we were the ones that defined these neighborhoods. and we did based on public testimony, especially after we realized that a lot of the planning maps, a lot of the electoral maps were insufficient. so eventually the neighborhoods are as we did find them. and if we just keep it simple and call what the neighborhood is, what it is by its needs and bounds, i think

cities. and people around the country see this as coming out of nowhere. i should say, african-americans or -- activists who had been in the cities for decades, they knew that these types of things potentially could happen. they had been talking about it for decades. but the rest of the country wasn't used to thinking about racial discrimination in cities, outside of the south. the rest of the country didn't know in some ways, or didn't want to know what racial discrimination looked like if there was no jim crowe sign hanging on the water fountain or on the bathroom. how can there be racism in places that have anti-discrimination laws. so it's the loss of the urban and when city services are most strained. it's the time -- you know, the loss of erosion of the tax dollars and coming in contact with the increased population puts a strain on infrastructure such as public schools. when increased crime is putting even more strain on police departments. when abandonment and arson is putting strain on fire departments, at the precise moment that cities need tax dollars the most to fund services, i

facts and have a vigorous debates with the city attorney about a lot, never did i feel the process was compromised because of the politics of the party complaining or the party complained of, and specifically, what i want to make sure of in this proceeding is that the same legal standard is applied that the city attorney has advised the commission must be applied in every single case where there has been a complaint of official misconduct in the history of the commission, and that is, and i read from a memo by a city attorney who was the chief deputy to the city attorney, and this was in a case where the commissioners were unanimous in their findings of the facts, but we were advised that we could take no action unless we found a violation of a charter or city ordinance relating to campaign finance, lobbying, conflicts of interest, or governmental ethics has been violated. under these circumstances, the regulations make clear that no further action shall be taken on a complaint unless a specific violation of a specific ordinance or charter provision that the ethics commission in forces has been found. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, commissi

if we went through a town or city and let us off at 3:00 in the afternoon and we walked out, you know, people might stone us. they might think we're prisoners. you know? and so everything was done at night. just about the time we left oakland, the word spread around that we were headed for mississippi. i'm telling you, the reaction was just one of disbelief and horror. because after all, the only thing we knew about mississippi as young men was that mississippi was a state where they lynch people, that they didn't like colored people, and we were colored. and so all these scenarios became part of our imagination. what's going to happen to us? are they going to put us in special camps? but i must say this much. though the mississippians treated blacks strangely, they accorded us a lot of friendship. they opened up their homes. in fact, in the early days since we're all out training, the uso operated and young ladies served us coffee, danced with us and such. and something strange happened the first month we were there. we received a letter which was read by every company commander to t

>> the answer to your first question is, no, the city has no authority to regulate or interpret federal laws. your second question, i do not know if i have an answer for you. i have not seen any laws where the city imposes requirements on landlords to include specific terms in their leases. i know that we do have requirements where property is sold, that there are certain disclosures made as part of the sale, but i am not sure as a lease. >> i had another question for staff, if i may. we are not the only city with an old building stock, in highly densely populated areas. i am wondering if we have done any research on what boston does, new york, l.a.? how do they deal with this issue? they have the same problems of old buildings, narrow stairways, lots of people coming in. >> i do not know that we have done any research to that he building department d of based on the california laws, which are based on national laws. every city has their own laws but they cannot restrict -- they can restrict federal laws, more restrictive, but they cannot relax federal laws. i do not know that any city,

the last submarine, i could have wiped out over 100 bases or cities with warheads. the apm is against the -- i'd like to know, to we really want to build that system? because i guess the international treaty, it is also ineffective. do we want to build an abm? >> in the center here. >> thanks. andrea bauman, center of for transatlantic relations. my question is about something that some of the panelists have touched upon, but i would like to specifically ask you with regard to your expectations for the chicago summit whether the discussion about specialization and coordination will be accompanied by a debate over a vision of what nato actually wants to do with a smart defense force, in terms of, in the sense of going beyond just counting budget numbers and weapons programs, but really discussing what there is, actually, a vision of what this force should be for and i would say, in order -- coming back to the buffet metaphor that ms. smith used, you know, of course you want to make sure that no everyone brings salads and forgets the brownies but you also want to know

historic documents when you come across them. >> so, learning history go to the assessor office in city hall or a title company and have them search for all the documents recorded against your property and if you're city hall you look at adjourning propertys so see if they have east meants or ease meants. if on page 29 you see a notice of special restrictions under the planning code and we would ask you record it and it would be on file that assessors recording office and you can look it up and print this off and you would be surprised and who has the rights to drill on your backyard or exit across your front yard there are many, easements. >> i would like to add when the as see sore is taxing you on what's physically out there and not what's legally out there, many people come to us and say i have this apartment and this room in the basement -- they get the history of their building from our records management department and say say, there is nothing in the building department that says build this but i'm being taxed on it and again, that's more money for the city because it's more square foot

in latin, pagan, pagus would mean outside the city or countryside. mercy would mean price paid. this becomes very important to the members of the knowledge circle. price paid. the culture would see themselves as being sacrificed, sacrificing, walking as the messiah, walking as christ. what does christ do? he pays the price. the price paid by phyllis wheatley brought her from her pagan land. to the people, pagan or outside the city, countryside would mean something different from heathen. there are two classifications in filani. one is the city, town or other group are called herdsmen, country folk. so she's from the country. that's what she's saying. and the region of west africa that she came from, pagan means she was from the country, she is not city folk. she was from the country. so they brought her from the countryside. brought her from the countryside. not pagan. wheatley is part of the pre-existing network. born in the educated, civilized, west african region where timbuktu was a strong influence. she comes to north america. she is brought to north america, enslaved. suff

>> the answer to your first question is, no, the city has no authority to regulate or interpret federal laws. your second question, i do not know if i have an answer for you. i have not seen any laws where the city imposes requirements on landlords to include specific terms in their leases. i know that we do have requirements where property is sold, that there are certain disclosures made as part of the sale, i

than say the task force should consider, i think we should say the city should consider a charter amendment to start the process sooner or the city should consider whether the task force should have the opportunity to select the consultant and discuss the scope of work versus having that happen. the part of it is not a recommendation to the next task force, it is to the city. poor example, the charter says -- for example, the charter says it could be changed to provide 30 more days in total. as an example. >> just to keep it simple, i would say it's we're going to do -- if we're going to do additional time, that we do not kid into the minutia of what that would look like. -- get into the minutia of what that would look like. >> i agree. member melara: it would provide that task force with additional time in order to possibly have some decision making or some power over the hiring of the consultant or develop the work plan with a consultant. >> excellent. any others on the process? member melara: no. that would be the big piece. if we agree with having something with the consultants and how they're going to do their work,

pagan, or outside the city, countryside would mean something different from heathen. there are two classifications in fulani. one is the city, town or other group are called herdsmen, country folk. so she's from the country. that's what she's saying. and the region of west africa that she came from, pagan means she was from the country, she is not city folk. she was from the country. so they brought her from the countryside. brought her from the countryside. not pagan. wheatley is part of the pre-existing network. born in the educated, civilized, west african region where timbuktu was a strong influence. she comes to north america. she is brought to north america, enslaved. suffering on the cross of america. price paid. and she would say, 'twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, taught my benighted soul to understand that there is a god, there is a savior too. once i redemption neither sought nor knew, some view or sable race with scornful eye, their color is a diabolic dye. remember, christians, negroes as black as cane, may be enjoined and join the angelic train.

the city's investigation did not find negligent or that they were the one's that actually caused the break in thh gas line. some residentssare planning to appeal.they ttll us their claimm are proof... city crews are to blame.i'm megan baltimore police say an internal investigation is activists claim an offfcer shot a disabled and unarmed man. man.departmenttpolicy says an officer can use his weapon if he feels his life is threatened... but now that policy is under scrutiny. back on april 10th... an officer shot 39-year-old david yim several times... and he llved. it happened on oakhurst pllce near dukeland street. police were responding to a medical assistance call... and the officer arrived beforeethe ambulance. investigators say theeofficer saw yim holding a butcher's knife... then fired, whiie sitting in his patrol car. police say yim was approaching... but witnesses at community meeting monday may have gone too far when he shot yim. 3 "he didn't have any weapons in his hand. so, i ouldn''t &punderstand why the police officer shot him. his life was not in jeopardy. so, why did he s

tell us what existing city initiatives -- you know, this -- the schering economy working group will interface with or connect with, and how does it fit in with existing strategic goals and plans of the city? >> i think our director of environment in our city has issued a goal for 2020, being mission -- emission free, carbon neutral. that is something that when you think about the economic impact of these new business models, it can contribute quite greatly to that. i am going to answer the question a little bit differently -- i have been inspired by this space considerably. there's a lot more opportunity. cars, so many assets we have in our society. as a city, we own buildings, cubicles, museums, golf courses, so much that we have -- >> yes, but it is our property, right? >> yes. that is a very good point. stewards of these resources, and they are often underutilized resources, so how do we improve access to those? there is a lot to learn from this that could be applied to the public comments. >> thank you. let's open it up. do we have a microphone for people to come to? ok, we will just it old schoo

the champions league final he apparently did it by picking up an apple which represented the blues or city will have some way to go to be to pull the octopus heated at the twenty ten well. but would seem to have predicted mum pelley is success in winning the french title for the first time thousands of their fans turned out to celebrate their unexpected triumph yesterday the party took place in the city's main square with plays in the star called out on stage the massive cheers from the crowd their success a huge achievement for. big spending paris and humanity's championship title and they did it with nine homegrown players club president we may call it even diapers hair and sported to mark the occasion. on the dow has beaten world number one novak djokovic for the second straight time to capture. six italian open crown wright had delayed this match by twenty four hours but it didn't affect the spaniard who won it seven five six three while the serbian made forty one unforced errors including a double fault on the last point to hand the dow his forty nine for a title alone with a record t

the city attorney has been trying for a week or more to try to get sheriff mirkarimi to turn over his lawyers files from a criminal case, to sit down for an interrogation, all under the authority of an alleged, unbounded city attorney right to investigate. now, the charter provisions that i have looked at indicate that if there is an alleged violation of the san francisco campaign and governmental conduct could, a complaint may be made to this commission, and it is this commission that decides to initiate the investigation, and the city attorney may participate in that investigation. i do not see anything in the charter or any other statutes that permit the city attorney to go out and start their own investigation. we need clarification on that issue immediately and urgently, because it seems to us that we would be fighting with one hand tied behind our back if they can go out and prepare whatever they need to prepare to proceed with this proceeding before you all have even promulgated rules of procedure that will hopefully proceed in an orderly fashion. now, i did want to address one

city. i grew up here. i want to be here. i want to have a family or establish myself. n francisco is a pretty exciting place to be. if you go to any other city, if you go to los angeles, new york, chicago, washington, d.c., if you tell them they it -- if they tell -- if you tell them you are from san francisco, people turn their heads. -- it is a cool place. we are the headquarters for twitter, zynga, salesforce, cloud. it is all headquartered right here in our city. what i am trying to do is make sure those technology companies, when they start here, they were looking for people that would do the fantastic engineering. they could put it all on the social platform. that is why they have grown to billion dollar companies. they are located right here and all their talent has been right here. what if you had a chance to work for those companies? those are just three. there are 300. there are 1500 technology companies in san francisco. so of the names of which you have not heard about. they are producing all the different applications that you might be using. whether it is

whether we're close to a resolution or not that's information that's provided to the city attorney's office. with all those caviar. we looked at from two thousand and six seven to. ten eleven because essentially all the revenues we receive is usually at the end of the year now so we don't know it's usually july or august of of the next year when they're closing everything how much we're getting so there is we don't we don't have eleven twelve in here because that would tell you anything. so over the five years here. about nine million dollars this includes all the cost to the city attorney's office inclusive of any phone calls that may really related to getting general advice or specific advice on a case or so that that's even if we call john to ask a question about. we get our job as a community that's that's included in the billing it's not just related to or there are outside entity call or even an insight into t. calls the city attorney's office based on our case it gets billed to us so. there it shows nine million versus about five and a half million but you'll see that. they ba