employees and less use even if contractor >> what i will do is go back and take the at the other city departments and break that number out further. in addition to i'm remembering to the technical staff this is like the city attorney's office >> right. >> and support - >> thousands of them. >> laura. >> we use the city attorney's office on the front end as we prepare documents and the like and on the back end if we get into issues of claims or litigation of that nature but i'll go back and try to break down the city contracts to give you a sense of number one puc folks we use on an annual basis. >> you said the 16 were directly billable. why are they budgeted as part of the operating if their project related? >> i think part of this is kind of a distinction of language so when they talk about project funding. so i mentioned the operating budget earlier this was like the different operating budget than what you're referring to >> that didn't make it clearer (laughter). >> sorry about that. >> when i'm referring to operations tights all project repelled. for example, i have a contracts

, most other cities as a matter of fact they don't make any other city has a transportation department that has been entrusted with all of these different roles for managing traffic, to and parking, to running the transit, to regulating the taxis to facilitating the commercial vehicles, bike sharing and car sharing, and it is really some what of a unique structure, within the united states. that the voters put this in place, through ballot measures in 1999 and 2007 and so it gives us a great opportunity, to really think about the transportation network and manage it in a comprehensive way and i think that is a great opportunity that we have to improve how we work with small businesses. my board also adopted a strategic plan and it was adopted a year and a half ago and actually coming up on two years ago and it is guiding the agency over the course of three fiscal cycles or six fiscal year. and it identified a vision, of san francisco, as a great city with excellent transportation choices, which has meant to really importance that the transportation plays because we are so dense and com

we were asked to compare san francisco investment in bicycle infrastructure and projects with other cities in the u.s.. to start with we looked at the strategic plan and the large goals of sfmta from their strategic plan they have established the goal of decreasing private auto use to 50% of all trips by 2018 -- scenario and that has a price tag of $191 million and if implemented is expected to increase bicycle mode share from the current 3.5% to between eight and 10%. the next slide is just an overview of the bicycle strategic plan scenario. again this is the midpoint -- or the middle of the three plans included in the bicycle strategy and increase bicycle mode share between eight and 10% and these are some of the details of what would be included if this plan was implemented. 50 miles of existing bicycle network is upgraded, 12 miles of new bicycle facilities, 21,000 bicycle parking spaces and so on and as i mentioned the cost associated with it is $191 million. one of the questions that we were asked to answer is what is currently being spent on bicycle projects and the bicycle mode in

others having anniversary of a twenty one an uprising. what you are seeing a national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie unrest is engulfing more cities across western ukraine while in kiev government concessions have failed to appease the opposition the two sides plan to hold another round of talks and meant a fragile truce while in many other places the situation no it isn't so peaceful these are here on the map all the main regional cities and in all of down protesters have tried to seize local administrations police only managed to repel the crowds and just one of those are just bitter all over is in the capital. around a dozen ukrainian cities are under siege by rioters these people are targeting local authority building the said local government buildings police stations in the like said barricading roads no three of the worst affected cities which has seen the worst violence. in the time the city of tennessee where we're hearing that right now where around one thousand rioters are besieging local government buildings there with around one hundred riot police trying to keep them away but of course they are they're outnumbered te

and to other cities, and the country, and in the world, thank you. >> i totally agree. and thank you, for that great report. >> on one of them, the city overview? >> yes. >> why, you had other at 23.9 percent, i was just wondering what the other is? >> it was all of the other departments. >> okay. >> every department is i think going to this, i did in the staff report, but every department is mandated by the city ordinance to declare a plan and an annual update and we need, and we are actually in the throws that have right now. the department of the environment made a chart that shows all of the major contributions and the other category is all of the other documents in the city like the library and the jail, so just all of the others. >> all of the other city departments, yeah. >> thank you. >> and i think that is great, and i think that it is great that we are doing such a wonderful job and hopefully, if there is anything else that we need to do to make sure that we are showing our support that you bring that to our attention. because i know that it and we are doing a

give me some sense of what happened in detroit and how we keep other cities from going the same route. very important example. the bankruptcy of cities locally -- it is a spreading problem for every big city. a great productive city like l.a. nonetheless follows the track of other cities that have been bankrupt. let's take detroit. that is a supreme example. detroit's boundaries were drawn in the 19th century. downtown detroit was really drawn with boundaries from 150 years ago. since 1960, detroit has gone from 2 million to 700 thousand people. two thirds of the population gone. a lot of the schools gone. a lot of abandoned things. detroit looks like a disaster area. what people don't know is, downtown detroit, the greater detroit metropolitan region includes 10 counties around detroit. those 10 counties during the same time when detroit went from 2,700,000 has gone from 3 million to 5 million population. leftof the industry that downtown detroit resettled in the counties around detroit. if you look at the five top economic new economy sectors in 10 counties around detroit are among

the violence announcing an amnesty to those detained in the kiev riots while unrest spreads to other cities where crowds are besieging official promises. as many protesters dismiss any negotiations with the regime look at the radical elements of the trouble fueling the violence. this hour a fourth bomb goes off in cairo is the city is rocked by a series of deadly blasts claiming the six lives and injuring dozens of others head of the anniversary of the two thousand and eleven uprising. and no face to face meeting for the syrian government and the opposition as the warring sides agreed to talk only through un mediators in different rooms a different time. this is r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where the government is offering further concessions to calm the rest with president pledging to free those arrested during the riots earlier this week well meanwhile protests are engulfing more cities across western ukraine live to the capital now in artie's peeta all over so pete what is the government's plan now. what we've

others have the anniversary of the twenty seven uprising. this is a national coming to you live from moscow i'm reading. unrest as engulfing more cities across western ukraine while in kiev government concessions have failed to appease the opposition the two sides plan to hold another round of talks amid the fragile truce well in many other places though the situation isn't so peaceful well these are some of the regional cities and in all of them protesters have tried to seize a local administrations police only managed to repel the crowds in just one of those let's get right up to date with people all over who is in the green in capital kiev for us so peter do bring us up to date and tell us how is the unrest spreading across the country. well what we're seeing is violence erupting across the west of ukraine around a dozen cities in parts of the of the country have seen attacks on government buildings by rioters now some of the worst affected have been places like the city of san fran called now they try to rioters try on thursday nights to occupy government buildings there we understand now they have taken control of one of the gove

over who joins us live from the ukrainian capital peter did tell us about the unrest spreading to other cities across ukraine. well currently around a dozen ukrainian cities are under siege by rioters these people are targeting local authority building the local government buildings police stations and the likes and barricading roads no three of the worst affected cities which has seen the worst violence. in the town or city of tennessee where we're hearing that right now we're around one thousand rioters are besieging local government buildings there with around one hundred riot police trying to keep them away but of course they are they are outnumbered ten to one in that situation in live volved which was one of the first cities outside of kiev to see violence biloba into its. right is have occupied government buildings there. they've blocked roads in there also barricading the police barricade in the police headquarters so that certainly say they seem to have the upper hand in that situation and in which was also one of the first cities to see violence outside of kiev well we're seeing simi

were certain models like zero-tolerance policing in new york city, the partnership model in boston and los angeles. and now there are other cities like chicago that are catching on, and they are using the same very effective methods for reducing the crime rate. >> interesting. so, you know, places like baltimore, washington, d.c., the homicide rate actually went up in 2013. there were a little more than 100 homicides in washington, d.c., in 2013. while we're talking, in due part because of the navy yard shooting, that was a spike. but even though it's higher than in 2012, it's still much lower than what you were talking about, the '90s when washington, d.c., was considered the murder capital of the world. 400 to 500 murders in one year. so in your view, is this kind of a short-lived trend particularly for cities like baltimore or washington? while the numbers are still high, it's far less than what it used to be? >> well, you know, i hope this is not a short-lived trend. i hope that this is something that we see continue into the future. but there are other factors involved as well. for example, there is the aging of the

force and it's a project that we've been doing with the controller's office, public health, and other city partners including the transportation authority to use data to define very specifically and strategically a capital improvement program that we will be ultimately in april recommending for your adoption along with what the other city agencies will bring into the city's capital budget. i think you'll see when we bring that on february 4th it's really a model of capital planning in terms of really using data and evidence-based practiceses to bring very strategic recommendations to achieve a very specific goal. we also have received a federal grant to support education and awareness, a program that will be getting underway later this year, but not wanting to wait for grant dollars to flow this month. we worked with the mayor's office to announce the launch of the be nice look twice campaign at awareness campaign because for all of the good things that we have in the pipeline in terms of education, engineering changes and enforcement, i think a lot of it really is about behavioral change

just as violence spreads to other cities. local government offices attack and the rest of the country. well throw it all. thousands of demonstrators and police remain colts in a tense stand off right in the hawks the camp to teach all the auntie here. i added the france have some and ukraine the masters over the protests in kiev and either ceaseless knocked up more on the european sea and some unrest with and reach a broad foreign affairs advisor for the french national front things are much the sister brought for joining us here on cnn to discuss the situation in kyiv and around it. so on. now what's so tough about the recent developments and other western governments those selling beer ambassadors twenty think is the message that they are trying to see and hear. though i think it's a very dangerous situation that's me know in ukrainian because you is in the european union into thier into ukrainian themselves and i think it's very dangerous position because it could create a very bad to the deviation of the country and there

i'm excited because we have an opportunity to inspire other municipalities and other cities all across this nation to really take a hold of our health care. and policy of the affordable care act, and the other half paying attention to our diet and the third part being exercise. we will hear the statistics which are staggering when you know diabetes is a preventable disease and the birth defects and what liquid sugar does to the body and it is preventable and it is our responsibility as policy makers and leaders and more important as people of san francisco to continue to provide healthy options for those folks that need them the most. it's no secret earlier supervisor mar laid out the statistics what we are dealing with the african american and latino and pacific islander community. it's not just this body taking up the cause but leaders within the ethnic communities that are also at the table. finally we have statistics, support and data. this is going to be a very very interesting year i predict for 2014. so, mr. chair, without further a do, let's get into this. >> thank you. i want

working on neuman umerous large transit projects including [speaker not understood] and bart and other cities across the country. and he he also worked for the city of oakland as a traffic engineer. he came to the city back in 1982. this was back when traffic engineering was part of the department of public works. so, he he started in dpw as an engineer. that bureau of traffic engineering and dpw became the department of parking and traffic, lovingly known as dpt in 1990, and bob was there for the first day of operation of dpt. ~ bond he was extremely knowledgeable and professional and well known and respected throughout all of the city's parking and traffic issues, working on litigation matters, on policy matters, on community matters, and developed a significant level of respect throughout the city family not just within dpt and the transportation world, but really across the city for his expertise. he he also was not only working ~ significantly for the benefit of the city's transportation system, but also for the industry and the field that he was a part of. he wanted to make sure that tr

other cities are aiming higher. recently chicago and new york announced that they are attempting to reduce all fatalities to zero in the next 10 years. based off models that have been seen in sweden, netherlands and united kingdom. our city can do the same. in fact our city has already invested enormous resources to identify how collisions happen and to prevent it. we have already studied and identified the most dangerous high injury corridors and areas in the city and the most dangers driving behaviors. we have information and we need to act on what we know and the incredible data we have already collected. supervisors avalos, he and i are making this commitment to our residented zero traffic fatalities in 10 years. as we ask our residents to absorb residential density and more pedestrians and drivers to share our roads, the city need to step up our efforts to make this work with our infrastructure and to make our city safer. we are asking to create san francisco's vision zero based on a three part strategy focus i

and i'm curious what other cities i know when i work in la and portland and sal lemon and chicago and virginia we don't deal about even a quarter of a time with getting through the approval process and the reviewed sequa >> well, not just sequa it's h.r. pr's. >> commissioners, i hate to interpreters what table. >> well, just in general. >> a general comment. yeah. >> but non-the percentage of all e all percentages of the buildings permits are approved in 90 days. >> 90 days is a long time. >> it's from all high-rises and all permits. >> do we know what other cities are doing with a performance prospective and knowing how to achieve those performances. >> i don't know. why do we take so long. to be clear here san francisco building inspection has to review more than chicago and more than los angeles because the evaluate vast majority of what we do are discretionary. you read in the paper new york can approve one thousand to the buildings and theirs not review by the planning department. so new york reviews as a planning agency about 5 thousand a year we review 2 thousand and new york

los angeles and other cities are stepping up because we haven't been able to see action in congress and we need to really take leadership from our urban cities to stand up for our immigrant families. secondly, tonight president obama is going to be speaking about this topic and we really, as much good as he has been doing in our country we ask him to do more, to make sure that while republicans in congress have been unable to move have agenda forward, we are not victimizing innocent men, women, children and families as we move forward and this resolution is important to reflect our shared values of saying we are one city and the technical issues around citizenship do not impact that we are all human beings and none of us are illegal. >> thank you, supervisor campos. >> thank you. i want to take this opportunity to thank our brothers and sisters from local /# 87 for the leadership they have played in this item coming forward. i want to thank all of the immigrants and as a former undocumented immigrant myself, i'm especially proud to see the young people who came out to testify about thei

your general manager and other departments got over a thousand photographs to shoichl how exactly this is done. so paving is not easy. there are certainty requirement that the city needs. the other thing is four jurors brand new pipes were put only to be destroyed again. we have to have a program that tom cast does but it never happens. after the 9 months of paving san bruno avenue and monitoring it with only one person from dwp then comes other company it doesn't see everything. we don't have the system fine tuned. commissioners you need to know how much money goes the dwp and how it money is given to the contractors and how reliable are those contractors. one major contractor is going under after having not did you live proper work. you need an evaluation it's noting our money. we need to get an evaluation on all the repaving that is linked to the water pipes and we need to get american people evaluation and that has to think post on the internet so we have full transparency and full accountability. thank you very much >> thank you francisco. is there any other any public comment? seeing none. we're going to go into recess we'll return at the 2:15 p.m.lu? >> a

approach to see what areas have the highest needs and the city would do the planting >> there are other cities that have to maintain the streets what's the cost or what does is look like total citywide. >> for planting the individuals or planting 50 thousand trees. >> all the trees in the city like some cities do do. >> it's a tiered system. jan i don't know if you remember the exact numbers but i think it's about 20 or carla. 20 million annual >> not an enormous number and a big bang for the buck. >> people aren't planting a lot of trees because they don't want to maintain them. >> the plan recommends that all the street trees would go back to the city and the city maintenance them. currently the individual homeowners are in order to planet 50 thousand trees because homeowners won't be liable. right now the liability is stopping people >> i can walk around my block and find three or four city blocks. there's another issue is the roots to damage the sidewalk >> only sidewalks that are damaged by the trees are included in the $20 million number. >> thank you very encouraging. >> anything else?

it has been known that they raised taxes in the other cities that pulled away -- >> this is a good timeo bring professor richardson? . the economics of this have to be fairly complex. talk about what some of the biggest hurdles would be, and what would be problematic economically for the city it leaves behind. >> i think first you have to appreciate the structure of the government. it's a city parish government. so it's not like the area where st. george is, they don't have service available around the parish. but if indeed they do incorporate, then there is an impact on the city of baton rouge in the sense that we now have a sales tax, and that's a major source of revenue for local goes. there is the sales tax, and you collect the sales tax where people spending their money. and a lot of the retail venues are in what would be the proposed city of st. george. our analysis we looked at what happens if the corporation is successful, given the current tax structure, what happens to the beginning city of baton rouge and the remaining areas, and we estimated that the city would lose about $8

we have more cranes in san francisco than any other city in the country. we have more work sites. it's a crowded place. san francisco is where everybody wants to come. we want everybody to come and when they get here, we want them to be safe. so with -- i'll close maybe later but i want to thank not only ali who will make this presentation, but my partner hear in traffic safety, director ed. i know he's committed to this. i know he's a pretty advate bicyclist himself. whether you're a driver for sure or anybody else, if you can finish that text or if you're a driver, just let it go. just pretend you're in the shower or something. don't pay attention to it until you get parked. natalie from walk sf, thank you for yourselves and nicole's partnership in working on strategies. laeh and she's no shrink -- she'll speak about the laundry list she gave us and what she would like to see and most of that has happened. in fact just now role call is in san francisco are seeing the 2007 educational video with regards to bike safety and it's being freshened out and out in the next six weeks and

that's an important part why they choose this city compared to new york or astin or other places. these are the people making the future. we want them in this city. i want to have these people around and if we support bicycle infrastructure they will continue to come here and thank you and please continue your efforts. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. thanks for having me today. i am michael wong and a five year resident in the year and russian hill and potrero hill and i have experienced a lot of the bike lanes in the city, some not safe like broadway before the tunnel and cutting over to pacific which is a very hard climb but i have been pleased to say that certain parts of the city i have seen massive improvements like market street or eighth street and separate bike way. i am excited if there is adequate money for bicycle infrastructure this could spread to the rest of the city and i will be a happier biker. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello i am amy chin. thank you supervisors for bringing this topic up today. i live in the marina and software engineer in the p

mayor menino has made it clear that we'll work with other city departments. the strength of our success in boston, his designation was the urban mechanic for a great city. it's been based upon the fact that there is connectivity between all of the various branches of government. so i know that arresting people is not going lower the crime rate. we've arrested fewer and fewer people every year for the last seven years. but i do know that working with the inspectional services department, with the alcohol beverage control department, the regulatory agencies in city government have a direct effect on crime and reduce crime hot spots immediately. so we've used that sort of holistic approach for a long time in boston. me for the last seven years. it is what has led to our success. it's only through cooperation and coordination in the full direction of the mayor. the mayor plays an enormous role in making sure the people work together. when that happens, it can be extremely powerful. >> in my view, there is no more innovative mayor or leader in this country than mic

there were clashes in alexandria and other cities and even in numeral areas.gyptian society remains deeply divided. there is no sign from either side of any move toward reconciliation. >> we have just lost the line to cairo. we will try to return to it later. moving on to the winter storm that slammed the northeast of the u.s. on friday, it has claimed 16 lives. people have begun digging out from as much as two feet of snow that fell in many areas. forecasters say there could be more to come. >> in freezing temperatures, workers battle to sweep the snow from new york pavement. nearly 2500 snowplows cleared the roads. like many other cities hit by this winter storm, there is determination to get things running again. >> if you do not need to travel today, please stay home. if you have to travel, take mass transit. yes, there will be some delays, but it will be safe and help us to get the city 100% back in full running order. been vastrm has spreading from pennsylvania to washington to massachusetts. highways have been gridlocked. travelers have faced nights bed

audience is going down for some of the crisis has provided great opportunities just like many other cities across the world will have its own chinatown as well all this that in the center of the city filled with many businesses globally the last things to take out include shots and tips techniques with which it has been for a school nurse who was sporting a given size and style schools and footwear are presented here. and with a price tag sometimes as much as ten times lower than the competition. it's flying

we had a bunch of people writing in from other cities. we decided to do it again. both campaigns were really successful. now we are thinking this year we are going to expand it nationally and bring it to cities all across the u.s. >> and from a crowd funding perspective maybe explain how that technique works specifically for the gun. >> so we used crowd tilt as our funding platform. basically what we have seen is it is using more and more for an outlet for democracy. it is a way that people can demonstrate their values and commitment to something and establish this community of people that care about it and share these same values. you know, there is a lot of cases happening, a guy who ran for mayor in oakland. he is working to fund his race. that is sort of what we are leveraging, the trend that i think we are a part of. >> one of the clever things about it is where you are on the gun spectrum, whether a member of the nra or a gun owner, both sides don't want that gun floating around unsupervised, unsafe, out on the street or in a home in which the person is throwi