many of the commissioners -- this is already in the ordnance that we introduced. one of them delays any december span of public funds until a week after the filing date. there are concerns about people applying and qualifying for public financing and realizing they saw the pool of candidates and realized they did not want to continue running, and we thought that this would address that. we thought it was important to bring in advance the filing date, to june, after the primaries. many serious candidates should announce earlier, just to get a sense of what the field as looking like, for the candidates considering office. increasing the qualifications for incumbents is something that we support. whether this is $15,000 or $75,000 for the mayor -- we think if you are an incumbent you should be able to raise that amount to qualify for public financing. we believe that this -- we believe this should be 4-1 or 1-1. this is a criticism labeled by the public. and this is something else that we support. another piece of feedback that we have heard is the board of superviso

it is my preference that we get one ordnance back to the board of supervisors. and around the male role ceiling, we look at the expertise of the ethics commission to help determine that number. whether it is 1.7 or

it is my preference that we get one ordnance back to the board of supervisors. and around the male role ceiling, we look at the expertise of the ethics commission to help determine that number. whether it is 1.7 or 1.9, there is a level of deference that my colleagues will have in terms of the final number coming forward. i think there is some disagreement, but not a very strong disagreement. i have generally heard a slightly more support. >> i would like to discuss the soft cap a little bit. have you said everything he said? >> by reading was that the supreme court was very specific to trigger a public funds december cement, that the burden was substantial and the independent rights of an insurer. because there wasn't a specific ruling to that particular issue, it is hard for us to say. i am sure that you have your opinions as well. i and the general feeling is that a soft cap is more fair. if there is an independent party that decides to throw in an ordinance amount of funding opposing your candidacy, i think it is only fair that you should privately raised do

. >> reporter: the ordnance arrives by ship. >> we moved about 1000 containers worth of ammunition. >> reporter: then loaded on to trains. chopper 5 caught the action on this day as dozens of containers were lifted on to waiting rail cars. then the cargo moves west and north. other trains go east through pittsburgh. >> this is a lot more routine than the average citizen might think but it is extremely safe. >> reporter: but this man is not so sure. >> this needs to be looked at much more carefully. >> reporter: fred is a rail security consultant. he says one problem is that military cargo often goes unattended. >> there's a chance that because of the regular demands of the rail rode system that it gets left sitting around. >> reporter: what concerns him more is something else we discovered in the middle of our interview. >> there's a passenger train going by. >> reporter: we saw a passenger train traveling right through the high security base. it's amtrak's line. we rode on one of the trains ourselves getting on at the martinez station. soon we were passing the army's bunkers. bunkers

. >>> a group of bar owners is threatening a lawsuit over a city ordnance. there's been a sharp up tick in downtown walnut creek. some of them turning into melees that spill onto the streets. the ordnance would allow walnut creek to reduce hours of operations at problem bars. >> the establishment owners have the fear that it could lead to dramatically restrictive regulations which in the long run may curtail their business. >> walnut creek mayor says it's premature to threaten a lawsuit. >>> well the count down is on, just less than 25 hours from right now, they plan to begin the closure of the upper deck of the bay bridge. the upper deck will stay closed saturday, sunday and monday. it should be reopened by 5:00 tuesday morning. during that closure, construction crews plan to shift lanes and do key prep work for the eastern span. thereoning drivers to plan alternate routes into san francisco. and bart is adding service this weekend. >>> a historic south bay home in ruins after a fire. how its design hampered efforts to put out the flames. >>> two earthquake

this includes all of alameda county, who voted two weeks ago, while others just had their ordnance go into effect. the passage of this legislation is a crucial next step in ensuring our responsibility, as well as our commitment to zero waste goals by 2020, and in expanding the local economy. time for san francisco to catch up and continue to show environmental leadership. i urge a yes vote today. thank you. supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: with this legislation first came up last year, i had some serious concerns about it. others of my colleagues did as well, regarding the impact on small business, lower income people, etc. at that point, it was very tempting to go into up to -- opposition. the other option, which i and others on the board chose to do, was to say -- how can we make this a better piece of legislation? we all share the goal of reducing a particular plastic in our waste stream and encouraging the reuse of bags. i tried to improve the legislation and what to thanked my colleagues and the department for excepting a series of amendments that i made. mo

the ordnance could potentially put some of them out of business. >> the accomplishment owners have the fear that it could lead to dramaticically restrictive reglations which in the long run could curtail the business. >> reporter: the pub lib will have plenty of time -- the public will have plenty of time to weigh in. >>> vallejo police have asking the public for help in finding a suspect which they consider to be armed and dangerous. they say maurice vernon is responsibility for a theft. the man took her jewelry and sexually assaulted her while threatening to kill her. they say he's a gang member and has prior convictions for weapons, theft and assault. >>> a deal on a payroll tax cut has been signed. congressional negotiators put their signatures on the agreement today. it calls for an extension of the tax cuts. the measure is expected to pass the house and senate tomorrow. president obama has said he'll sign it right away. the congressional budget office says it will estimate $145 million. >>> the labor department says applications dropped by 13,000 last week to 348,000. this is the

the commission considered the ordnances and recommended approval on november 10 of last year. at that time you approved the document as drafted. this week supervisor wiener officially sponsored the legislation and recommended approval to the committee. department staff provided an overview of the plan and supervisors comments included strong interest in seeing transportation projects implemented by sf mta.]

million, we do need to move forward because we need the cash for the project, and there is a delay on ordnancesc., so we would prefer that. the rest of the funds. we would like to think a budget analyst for their report, and we support the recommendation to come back to you with a full report on the phase two funding and the debt financing and how we will resolve that before we issue what makes up the balance of the sources in this project, and i am here with my budget person to answer any questions. thank you. >> -- chair chu: thank you. just to clarify, the thing that has changed is the appropriation, 7.2. there is no longer a source of the additional $2 million that was supposed to come from the reimbursement of the america's cup, given that so many things are changing at this point? >> i would not want to characterize it as no longer a source. the source would be the event authority reimbursing us, or it would be deport revenue capacity supporting that $2 million, so there will be a source. he is just because the negotiations are continuing, and we're going to look for a revised plan. we ar

the ordnance could potentially put some of them out of business. >> the accomplishment owners have thead to dramaticically restrictive reglations which in the long run could curtail the business. >> reporter: the pub lib will have plenty of time -- the public will have plenty of time to weigh in. >>> vallejo police have asking the public for help in finding a suspect which they consider to be armed and dangerous. they say maurice vernon is responsibility for a theft. the man took her jewelry and sexually assaulted her while threatening to kill her. they say he's a gang member and has prior convictions for weapons, theft and assault. >>> a deal on a payroll tax cut has been signed. congressional negotiators put their signatures on the agreement today. it calls for an extension of the tax cuts. the measure is expected to pass the house and senate tomorrow. president obama has said he'll sign it right away. the congressional budget office says it will estimate $145 million. >>> the labor department says applications dropped by 13,000 last week to 348,000. this is the fewers number of clai

not too long ago, the sunshine ordnance taskforce found several members of this board has in violation of the sunshine ordinance. i had hoped that they would take that in the spirit that was meant, have open discussions, and looked at it in an objective and fair light. i would like this to remain on the screen for the next 30 seconds. this is what we get. a survey that is badly written. i was on the staff of the pacific fleet that is in charge of all of the military forces in the pacific and i used to give surveys. this survey is designed to get a specific answer to raise questions of the cost of sunshine to attack the members of the sunshine ordinance taskforce, and most of all, to discourage members of the public that want to use the open government laws to make the government open and at least somewhat responsive to the citizens. i think it is an embarrassment, and i said this to the ethics commission that the civil grand jury has noted that they did not enforce the sunshine roles ever in eight years. you have never given if he support it deserves. they disparage those members -- >>

. >> ordnance excepting the infrastructure improvements associated with a mission they south blocks 2-7 and 13 phase one. declaring city property -- president chiu: same house, same call. item 18? >> motion appointing o superviselague -- supervisor olague tot the council. president chiu: can i get a motion to excuse supervisor olague? can we take a roll-call vote on this item? supervisor mar: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu is absent. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. >> nine aye's. president chiu: if we can go to the committee reports, item 19- 20. >> considered a buy the land use and economic development committee and forwarded as committee reports. item 19 has a new title amending the planning code to create the chinatown transit station special use district at the southwest corner of stockton and washington streets, preventing demolition of a mixed use in building. item 20 is an ordinance amending the planning to go to reflect the creation o

first of all, i think these two ordnances both potentially violate the single subject rule because they mix the campaign finance programs with changes to the code with respect to the nomination. i believe that fairly strongly. i also think in terms of procedure, where the ethics commission takes a vote on

parking that will allow the tenants to bring their bicycles into the building, providing that the ordnances operative date is january 30, 2012, making the environmental finding -- >> thank you. colleagues, at long last, this legislation was first introduced back in september, this has come to committee. i am happy to be moving this forward. this is up to 20% -- by bicycle. i fully support the goal. we want to get to this important goal, part of this is establishing the infrastructure for the bicyclist in san francisco so we may have community benefits for people working in san francisco, to cover the cost of cycling. one incentive is that we can make certain that bicycles have greater access to the buildings that people work in, especially buildings downtown, where a lot of the bike trips go. with market street and folsom. we need something to make this happen. currently, the new buildings that are built, they provide space for by cyclists, during the day. this legislation will work with existing buildings, to require that the people who manage the building allow the bikes to enter the buil

. >> ordnance excepting the infrastructure improvements associated with a mission they south blocks 2-7 and 13 phase one. declaring city property -- president chiu: same house, same call. item 18? >> motion appointing o superviselague -- supervisor olague tot the council. president chiu: can i get a motion to excuse supervisor olague? can we take a roll-call vote on this item? supervisor mar: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor wiener: aye. supervisor avalos: aye

. >> reporter: the ordnance arrives by ship. >> for the last mission, we moved about 1,000 containers' worth of ammunition. >> reporter: then loaded onto trains. chopper 5 caught the action on this day as dozens of containers were lifted onto waiting railcars. and then the cargo moves, west to martinez, across the benicia bridge north to fairfield, sacramento and beyond. other trains go east through pittsburg, antioch and stockton. just moves like any other cargo? >> it does. this is a lot more routine than the average citizen might think but it is extremely safe. >> reporter: but this man isn't owe sure. >> after 9/11, all of this needs to be looked at much more carefully. >> reporter: fred is a rail security consultant who has testified on capitol hill. he says one problem is that military cargo often goes unattended. >> there is a chance that because of the regular demands of the railroad system, that just gets left sitting around. >> reporter: what concerns him even more is something else we discovered in the middle of our interview with commander hart. >> there's a passenger trai

shoppers are still getting free bags but that's going to change when the ordnance goes into affect. >> it's hard to take all the groceries that you need to your door, so it makes it unconvenen and we don't have money to buy bags all the time. >> san jose is a big supporter. >> it's going to be slow and coming and we have heard some good news from mountain view and they are certainly very seriously considering it. >> he says that the ban will be a growing ability. in san jose, updated news. >>> gang violence is in many cities. they show us a unique program that could work in other cities. >> 20 year old is hoping to find hope here. but thanks to the church he has found hiss place and reaching out to to youth with his music. >> lord blessed me with it to speak to the people that are dying. >> what makes this ability to anybody that has been there and done that and teen pregnancy just to name a few. this gives them an advantage to lead out to the youth. >> you see this and once the trouble youth himself has come a long way. >> i was a terrible person and self fish. i didn't care about no

. >> reporter: a similar ordnance passed. >>> one of men passed between the 2010 election robo calls goes on trial accused of suppressing calls. derek valcourt has more on his free speech defense. >> reporter: a group of supporters follow political consultant julius henson to court. he's hoping to avoid the same fate as paul shoruck who now awaits sentencing for sending robocalls to registered democrats hinting there was no need to go vote. >> if governor o'malley and president obama have been success. we're okay. relax, everything is fine. the only thing left is to watch it on tv tonight. >> basically the state made a mistake in bringing this case and we'll prove it. >> reporter: hinson admits he was also behind the robo calls. rhonda russell is going to testify that the calls she recorded were a sort of reverse psychology. >> reporter: failed include the disclosure that the ad was coming come. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >>> the campaign manager is scheduled for sentencing next week. >>> it's a record, right now gas prices are higher than they have ever been at this time o

>> ordnance amending the codes to provide a contribution option for the establishment of a public art trust fund. supervisor mar: if i could ask people to please leave the room quietly if you can. thank you. i would like to ask people if you could take the conversations outside the committee room please thank you. we are going to resume at that meeting. you have already called item #4. we're going to resume with item #4. the item has been called, so let me introduce the supervisor and our president, david chiu. could we please reconvene? thank you. we are resuming. thank you. >> if you remember, this is a piece of legislation to provide more flexibility to our city currently uses the 1% public arts the. there was only one outstanding issue the last time we met and that had to do with an amendment i have just offered that is supported by the mayor. just to remind you, the city currently requires developments over 2500 square feet. as this piece of legislation moves through the process, the planning commission an arts commission wanted to expand this citywide. the legislation expands re

first of all, i think these two ordnances both potentially violate the single subject rule because they mix the campaign finance programs with changes to the code with respect to the nomination. i believe that fairly strongly. i also think in terms of procedure, where the ethics commission takes a vote on a matter, they should communicate in writing to the board of supervisors with their vote is and not have that merely be reflected by a line in the city's attorneys digest of legislation. they should communicate formally to that and. -- to that end. i'm not concerned with the particulars, i tend to favor the soft cap at i would have eased slightly different numbers, but i think this goes a distance to fixing the thing and making it work. i can live with all that. i want to focus on the municipal election code and the potential change any they want to follow- up on this, moving back the deadline date 58 days, almost two months to early june has the effect of commingling aspects of a june and november elections that do not exist. now the june election is done and put to bed, the best can'

commissioner moore: very much in support of the ordnance and i'm very happy that, from working with some of the neighborhood input, and those sensitivities were reflected in the way this is in front of us. whenever we were talking about ground floor-, it has all the positive attributes of pedestrian activity and retail which is street-friendly. but i ask that the buildings are also buildings that are some of the laudable -- subdividable. most buildings that provide retail only allow small space without allowing space for smaller tenants. particularly on balboa and large parts of geary, there are small- scale entrepreneurial. when the buildings come in, we mostly built larger buildings. that is the nature of how it goes these days. they are aggregated and create a larger building footprint where it is very easy to have one lobby and one or two spaces that are too large for the entrepreneurial merchants which characterized the strength of san francisco's commercial environment in these areas and other areas. i strongly ask that that be built in when we encourage this legislation. i can not

we are also expecting every appropriation ordnance for police and fire to move around some of their overtime and salary dollars. if you recall the board of supervisors, last year they passed an ordinance that requires every appropriation ordnaninance in the event they e spending more so that it would be a conscious decision on the part of the department, mayor, and the board to increase the overtime budget. police and fire is likely given the trend that they will be the real appropriation. we won't be spending any more money, but we would be spending it in different buckets. this slide is a little bit hard to see because there is a lot of information, but what it provides is the projected fund balance for those funds not in the general fund. this part of the chart identifies the building inspection that you have seen a is a healthy balance of almost $19 million. that is good news. if you recall, three years ago, the building inspection department had to lay off a significant number of inspectors and so forth. the permits have come back, the revenue has come back, and the building inspection