what we also see is it did not affect the business in the city center because the people who did not really need to go into the city are now staying out or coming in by public transport or bicycle. nowadays, the businessmen who need to go into the city with his car for a)> hour, always has room, always pays, even in the neighborhood of the business. there is a limit on tariffs. 5 euros is enough. [inaudible] most business people are afraid that making parking more expensive will actual impact their ability to do business -- will actually impact their ability to do business. >> it also depends on the sort of business and the sort of street. for instance, if the go on the street where gucci is and so on, and you need enough parking spaces. >> with the chairman of the society of amsterdam, they are also supporting this approach. they realize if they just press on the car accessibility only, in the end there will be no excess ability at all. they support strongly that only the people who need to come by car, they should be able to come, and the rest should make other choices. >> i think w

with a survey in people city- wide -- were they surveying people city-wide. it marks there were more serving the neighbors of the redevelopment areas. supervisor avalos: we're now looking at serving citywide, probably with a focus on those neighborhoods. >> the priority is not to have about ends to programs that are important in those neighborhoods. this allows us the ability to work city-wide and leverage of the dollar's to expand the jri program. supervisor avalos: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor kim. >> i also appreciate the overview. you have $10.8 million in general fund allocation. i have that there is $0 11.3 million increase in general fund request from last year. 153% increase, the second- largest increase forgot after the city planning department. to give some relativity, the third largest was from rec and park at 29%. there is a large increase. i know a lot of it has to do with the mayor's 17-point plan. i am curious about what is not included in the $10.8 million of the $11.3. >> some of that is things we agree to as cuts. supervi

to open an office, you need to go to where the talent is, and there is not a city in the world that has more talented people than the city of san francisco. we are thrilled to be here and to have your leadership. i do not know if we will be at 3000 employees, but if the warriors win the championship, we will be there to celebrate and to help in any way we can. we look forward to being a long- term partner of yours and the city's for years to come. of course, the third group to thank here it is it is great to have a beautiful office, but what's most important it are the people who come in every day. i feel phenomenally blessed to have such wonderful colleagues. we started two of us at a desk five years ago. there are now 250 of us that the company. 50 people worked out of this office. we plan to double that in the next 12 months. the mayor already met our lead recruiter are here. when president obama came to visit our offices in virginia, we were 60 people. we told him we would double the company in 12 months, and he went to donny and said, "i understand you are the job czar." and she was, and we did. it is

people of san francisco. we think the best and brightest should be in city government. the people here tonight are proof that they are. finally, i want to mention a very meaningful thing for me to be here tonight on the night we are giving a lifetime of work to ed harrington. [applause] when i arrived in san francisco coming out of state employment some six years ago or so, ed was very generous in giving me advice. to say -- i will call. why are we doing this? who can i ask this question of? if i think it may have political implications or just to bounce it off him, he always has great devicadvice. personal thanks to ed harrington, as well. i will turn it back over to r m our emcee. >> a big round of applause. [applause] >> all right. thank you also my pleasure to introduce president of our board of supervisors, supervisor david chu. >> good government. evening. it's my honor to welcome you to our local version of the academy awards for city government. yes, please give it up. i think our awardees look absolutely stunning tonight. i want to welcome you all to city hall.

here in the city of baltimore, there were tens of thousands of people without power. the city had workers knocking on doors trying to find these people and in some cases rescue them in the intense heat we had after the power went out. they are asking for a study to find out where some power lines might be buried and whether that could be helpful. the mayor knows people needed help and hoping the power companys will provide it in the future. >> with the heat continuing to rise and the length of times out power continued to lengthen, these people would need additional assistance, we were able to get that lift. our hope is moving forward we will be able to get it sooner. >> reporter: mayor asking bge to increase the number of tree trimming and limb trimming that goes on before the storm so when one hits it's not as serious. christian schaffer, abc2 news. >> was she concerned about the lack of resources or the response time? >> reporter: i think she was pleased with the level of resources put in here based on her comments. it's the people here in baltimore city without pow

the people's city hall, san francisco.ant you all to note that that was such a wonderful rendition of our national anthem. please give another applause to the millennium -- melanie and her daughter. i am so excited about all of you and seen so many of you from all over our state. come to city hall anin san francisco, welcome. i would like to welcome the former secretary of transportation. [applause] thank you for being here. thank you, john, thank you. our board of supervisors comment david chiu, thank you very much. david campos, thank you for being here. he is our adopted asian brother. we have so many of our state representatives here. so many of you are here. i have spent all night announcing your names, but they did not give me the full list. i will say thank you on behalf of our city. from sacramento, los angeles, from all the communities in between, thank you for coming to our fantastic city to celebrate our asian-pacific heritage month. it is my pleasure to also provide you with a warm welcome and thank you for som

city as a whole? >> -- supervisor chu: a lot of people ask that question. they ask how you can be an effective supervisor and have the city's overall interests in mind, but the thing people often lose is the fact that what is good for the city often times is good for our residents as well. if we are seeing huge economic uncertainty or recessions that are impacting, let's say, the downtown core where many of our businesses are located, that has a huge impact on my residents who are commuting downtown for work every day. i do not think that is so much about balancing one over the other, and it is not always whether one has a different side or a different perspective. i think that being able to watch over the city's interests, making sure we have a good economy, strong foundation overall, is a benefit to the residents in my district as well as other places. the balance between city-wide interest and district residents sometimes are not as far as people think. >> once again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including where to make cuts and where to

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that is a tough time to get people to vote. in the city, people are engaged.t month actually does not turn people away. another benefit i have seen in a runoff process, even though i feel some ambivalence about it because of the immense amount of energy and dollars it takes to run extended campaigns, is that i have seen an increase in organizing, skill-building, a leadership development, and a lot of new people who get engaged in an election process in the last month of the election cycle. i am looking forward to hearing the public comment today, in terms of what people would like to see in how we do these types of elections. i am generally more supportive of president chiu's amendments. but for everyone who is sitting here today, it comes from a genuine place of really wanting to ask the voters what they think the best election process might be. we did get questions on why now, because the next mayor's race is three years away, so we have more time to study and examine different parts of the country. i agree with that, but we also know that the greatest turno

we're, together with the churches, going and targeting the whole city. 10million people in the city, and 10 million people are the targets. >> reporter: thousands of callers flooded the phone centre, requesting the book of the stories of lives changed by god. >> we had 60 phones going pretty well non-stop. we should have over 100,000 telephone calls of people who specifically ordered that book i just described. we're talking about hindus, we're talking about muslims in the city of hydrobad. it is something that churches have never ever seen in that city. >> reporter: participating church leaders already report new visitors, and they've also seen their own congregations become more active. >> i knew they were excited. at this moment, some of them are on their way going to different houses and giving the book to those. >> they feel very comfortable telling to the non-christians, to say just call this number and get that book. you will know what we've been speaking of for so long. that power to change was an easy way to share christ with others. >> there are people who invested our churc

people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concernsre. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part of the left on the national standard. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco spectrum, and probably considered more middle of the road. -- i am probably considered more middle-of-the-road. i am very independently comes to the issues. i do not vote the party line. a judge each issue on its merits. that is how i am. >> what do you feel are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco now? >> the budget is the most imminent issue. we do have a structural budget deficit in the city. we need to deal with the short- term balancing of the budget in a way that does not decimate basic city services that people rely on but also to address our long term structural budget deficit. that means implementing budget reforms that will smooth out the budget process so that it is not a boom-bust process. that means reforming our pension a

don't have these big health care plans that -- it's going to actually be damaging to a lot of people as far as cityrs. people that wanting to to see a city, you know. who want to live in the city where the police department or fire department's being cut? >> right. a big safety concern. a lot of people, no surprise, they're not happy about. this listen to what one guy told the city council. >> we have appointed you and put our faith and trust in you. you have disappointed us and let us down. the world is watching, thank god. they can see that we're victims of a society that's failing us. >> you listen to that. it's not surprising, but is there anything that citizens can do to prepare for something like this? >> the citizens really can't do anything. you work, pay taxes, you think you're doing what you're supposed to do. from that standpoint, you as a citizen can't do anything. it's not something that the citizens did. it was how the people running the city managed the city. >> can any of the cities recover? >> yeah. there's always a recovery, abbu how long is the question. chapter 11 is a pause but

that live here in the city, who understand the city, who know the city. people from the neighborhoods in the city and understand the problems going on within the neighborhoods. >> officials within the department say new efforts are under way to help city residents to qualify as candidates. coming up on 11 news at noon, a demolition at penn state univ. one day after joe paterno's statue was taken down. a major flood captured in arizona. arizona. more on the raging i'm sticky and uncomfortable. try gold bond powder. medicated to protect, absorb, even relieve itching. -thanks, jimmy. -thank gold bond. ♪ this stuff works >> a day after the n.c.a.a. announced the sanctions against penn state, the wall behind the joe paterno statue was demolished. the backdrop memorialized the school's winning years of football. the n.c.a.a. stunned many on campus with a section, a ban on postseason games for four years, and erase the record of winning games since 1998 in the wake of the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. hundreds of demonstrators marched outside the white house callin

they are pretty excited people in the early hours of morning as the buses set out from gaza city taking people to see their husbands, their sons, their brothers, of people they not seen for a long time. around 550 palestinian prisoner israeli jails. 50 relatives have crossed into israel today and are visiting the prisoners now in a jail in southern israel. >> a huge relief for the families concerned. are we need to see any broader significance in this? >> i don't think so, to be honest. this came about as part of our border deal. there was the mass hunger strike by palestinian prisoners earlier in the year, protesting against conditions in israeli jails. as part of a deal to end the hunger strike, one of the things that was agreed was more family visits from their relatives from gaza. it's difficult to get to gaza for many palestinians. not allowed to get to israel without permission. human-rights groups have been urging israel to do this. israel regards these prisoners as terrorists. in the past israel has been concerned family visits could be used by some prisoners to continue what is

city can become. i want to recognize john because he is one of those few people who i can properly engage in the trash talk and still talk about the city in a positive way. thank you, john, for your wonderful service. [applause] when i came a year ago, san francisco. the unemployment rate was 9.5%. we heard a presentation about how we made that change. at the time we faced the $380 million budget deficit and we were struggling. how to meet the increasing cost of our pension and health care obligations. you remember that discussion about our pension? have we come along way. it is still mentioned -- still prevalent. a year later our city, board of supervisors, the mayor, elected officials have come together with the help of great city department leaders that are also here today, doing everything we can to make sure that we tackle the pension issues and make sure that our budget is balanced. more importantly, we put people back to work. that is the most important thing all this have joined together in doing. the last 12 months, guess what we have done? we created jobs for an additional 17,300 san francis

people see it. not only in north beachx%gsj maybe city wide. the next is temporary taxis jones in and around clubs on the weekends. it is 2:00 in the morning. it is hard to get a cab. if we could put in temporary tax rezones friday and saturday night, it would be easier for people to find cabs to and from then use. last, more light. i know we talked about cities, areas where there is a lot of venues packed into a few blocks. they will actually bring in temporary light towers. the last thing is organization. as venues, it is really important that you come together, whether it be in cmac, or your smaller organizations, so you can work together, have one voice to work with city government. >> that is a perfect segue. i was in the group with south of market, bayview. we talked a lot about organization, communication with the police department's. something that i wrote down that i did not even know, if you feel like you need to call the police, you should. if you do not feel at 911 is appropriate, use 553-0123. i did not know that. that is a direct

people see it. not only in north beachx%gsj maybe city wide. the next is temporary taxis jones in and around clubs on the weekends. it is 2:00 in the morning. it is hard to get a cab. if we could put in temporary tax rezones friday and saturday night, it would be easier for people to find cabs to and from then use. last, more light. i know we talked about cities, areas where there is a lot of venues packed into a few blocks. they will actually bring in temporary light towers. the last thing is organization.

the people who had horses in the city and thought they were living in a city that stood for something had some values, those were the people that really sacrificed. they had faith that they were living in a city that had a government that would not stab them in the back a first chance it got, but that is what happened when you and your city up to a feminist government. nancy pelosi wants to put her name -- nancy pelosi drive, right? the lesson we have learned is when you and your politics to the women comment it go down the drain -- , it goes down the drain. >> if you want to comment on rec and park policy that is fine, but driving on about this is not worth its while. >> it may not be worthwhile to you, but people who live in this city and used to go to the park and visit people -- >> for the record, certainly, congresswoman pelosi was not the driving force behind naming the drive. was the people of san francisco. thank you very much. >> a more appropriate name would be ripoff drive. >> i hope i can get through this. i want to make a few more comments about the chinese recreation cen