this is a very progressive city. i would like to see it progressing the way it has been by having these services for all these people. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you for listening. we appreciate your attentiveness. i am the executive director at central city hospitality house. the think i count this as my 10th year, my tent budget process. i did want to thank and appreciate the mayor and all the supervisors, including supervisor chu, who has done a great job participating in the budget process this far with cbo's. i was one of the stakeholders. it was impressive to have some restoration's made before we got to this point. there are programs that match the priority, priorities that were developed by the stakeholders. i want to talk about some of them today. those include some of the programs for homeless folks, including the stabilization room. i want to talk about hospitality houses cut to the tenderloin. the sixth street help center -- those progr

the governor's proposal is very dangerous, and it may really disrupt a lot of the planning in progressive cities that have really developed great projects that create better housing opportunities for the lowest income areas. i'm skeptical of redevelopment overall. it led in the 1950's and 1960's to the devastation and destruction of many low-income neighborhoods. it was often done without a heart and was very disruptive, displacement in fact, especially of lower income and working [inaudible] market is one place where they used to be families living there that have been displaced by high-rise hotels and other types of structures, but i think as redevelopment reform moves forward, we need to be sensitive to ensuring that san francisco can protect its projects that preserve decent housing and better housing for the lowest income population. i think the governor's proposal is very dangerous and may impact treasure island development, so we have to watch very carefully, but i'm skeptical. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? are we on the right track? what would you like to

all about winning a state senate district, a very progressive part of chicagoers which is a progressive city. then the politics changed. he became a young man on the move. illinois a much different place than just his little district. and he then came out against it. it is just politics. now, i have to say on this one he's kind of behind the american people. he was way ahead of us, frankly, on healthcare, on the auto bailout, on any number of issues. but on this one he is a lagging politician that we have a narrow majority of americans who now support full equality in marriage for all americans. and i think the president's a little late to the party frankly. >> it's interesting, cleave, because people who are opposed to same-sex marriage point to president obama and say, well, look, president obama doesn't support it as well. do you believe he actually doesn't support it, or do you think this is just he made a political calculation of you know what, i'm just going to say i don't support it even though maybe i really do. >> well, i think it's clearly a political calculation. sadly i think it'

the first is the city's progress on augmenting recommendations by the city comptroller. as we are conducting hearings on audits that have been performed, that we also take the time a few months down the road after the hearings have been completed to follow up to make sure that the recommendations have been completed and that will ensure that we make the most of every audit that has been conducted. this is a hearing on the standards and malls and ethics rules to govern the war down by regulators at the department of public health. when it comes to the review that may have environmental health impacts. it is important for us to have a better understanding of the rules that govern the performance of these regulators and asked that these matters be heard of the government audit and oversight committee. >> supervised mar. supervisor mar: i have a sad news. a close friend of mine passed away. his family is from the richmond district. i ask that we closed the meeting in his honor. he was born in hong kong in 1964. he emigrated when he was four years old. he was 56 when he passe

this group would meet regularly over a multi-year time scale and report back on the city's progress integrating climate planning and environmental justice. the members of the advisory panel look forward to working with the city and private sector employers in identifying further specific actions to promote green jobs in san francisco. on behalf of the panel, which includes myself, kevin daniher, laurie bernstein with goodwill industries, teresa, and elliott hoffman with true market solutions , inc. thank you. [applause] >> and last, but not least, we have our representatives from the business advisory panel, christina page with yahoo and melissa. [applause] >> good afternoon, mayor lee. we were asked to just comment very briefly before sending our letter on the experience that companies had in the advisory panel. on behalf of yahoo, in addition to finding this dialogue both inspiring and thought provoking, it doesn't sound very reassuring because we discovered that the stea's climate action plan shares a lot of the beliefs that we have in constructing our corporate environmental strategy about

presentations here and all the advocates have really helped san francisco move with great progress in the city and county. great to see you. good morning. >> and good morning. good morning, and thank you for hosting this hearing today. i am pleased to present to the findings and recommendations from the 2010 report on family violence in san francisco. it is available at our website. sfgov.org/dosw. today, we are shining a light on the problem of family violence in san francisco. you are well aware of the number of homicides that occur annually in our city according to the police department's uniform crime reports, available online. in bad years, we have had 98. gatt -- last year, we had a record low of 45 homicides. at the same time, what our report shows is that for the past three years, the average number of domestic violence cases received by the police department has numbered just over 4000. any one of which could become a homicide. we hear a lot about a gang of street violence, but there is some much more we can and must do to prevent family violence. we have three years' worth of data on

wimbledon with play due to resume tomorrow but it was an action packed day six which saw most of the city's progress including many. shut up about who cruised into the last sixteen with victory over clark as a part of our set up. this is tournaments and almost a perfect person display from the setting that's now for the second shot up of assumingly always one step ahead of the check getting a number of killer four hours down the line including a match point six two six three chinese frypan up next on monday. thank you sir. cross the forest. for a few years. to. step further and even. and shock of us performances are being watched closely not only in england but also hearing about in the russian capital recently retired star and olympic champion going to mean several things so compadre could win in london this year even though showed up at his last grand slam came at the australian open three years ago. if he wished to continue to. build and was maria's first grand slam title back in two thousand and four i think she likes to play on grass and has a good chance of winning this tournament this season

>> god clearly showed it would be a day of repenitence and prayer, gathering people in my city and progressively it would run to the nation, africa and around the globe. it is amazing to see. if you ask the single thing that has stood out has been the word "unity."we have seen denominations of leaders that have said nothing over the years has brought them together the way the global day of prayer has. that has been special. to know people are praying a common prayer for the key issues on pentecost sunday each year has been really special. >> to that very point, when you talk about races, cultures, time zones, countries coming together, how important is unity in this whole thing? >> the 2 scriptures that standout is 2 chronicles 17 and e ephesians 4. today unity is a key, key part in what is happening in the global part. 2 chronicals 14, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, this is a promise from god, he will heal from heaven. i believe that is the key thing we are seeing roll out across the globe. >> those 2 values, humility and repenitence are at the core of the gdop. why are those 2 e

that, to me, oddly it's our requirements, to make sure our city, in its reputation of being forward thinking and progressive, learns to make sure that that translates into economic, so that this is not just a city for those who can afford it. we want to get down to brass tacks issues about not just public safety but the root causes that we want to address of job training, job placement, giving our youth something to aspire to, giving young adults something that they can turn to, giving people who feel that they need that extra level of support from city hall, from local government, the ability to be able to reach out -- that is also what tonight is part of. he is the real supervisor, my son. he just turned two last week. i know i was going to grow to be an eco-leader in some respects, but out of the desperation, the fact that we are not getting leadership from the federal government and state government, trying to mitigate pervasive environmental harm or answering the larger questions, like of a climate change, or trying to figure out ways that we compensate for insufficient public resources, coming from st

that to me obligates our requirement to make sure this city, being in its reputation of being forward thinking and progressive, learn to -- learn to make sure that that translates into economics so that this isn't a city just for those who could afford it. >> what do you feel like are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> well, when i came into office in january 2005, a number of areas of our district, as you outlined in your opening statement, really confronted different neighborhoods in different ways. district five is by far one of the most interesting drawn districts of the whole city. my western border goes almost into the sunset. my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is waller and as you mentioned earlier, all of the neighbors in between. from our inner sunset, the challenges there have been very, very different than say on the other side of the district in the western addition. one of the most pronounced and high-profile challenges that had vexed my predecessors in the city is i think the completion resignation that the western addi

and layoffs analysts say cities and states are finding another way to deal with financial hardship more policing and finding more ways for people to break the law even in progressive new york city as our chief correspondent we're going to court ny is going to show us. our true silk is something of a smoker's rights champion. living in a city where a pack of cigarettes cost thirteen bucks and the freedom to post where you please grows ever more limited. down in our basement this retired new york city police officer nurtures a garden of rebellion this garden is about reacting and defying their attempt to control my behavior hundreds of home grown tobacco leaves hang to dry before silk shreds and smokes are nicotine we're talking about products here so bacco is legal if they don't want people to smoke they should go to congress and lobby to have it from. the big apple's new smoking ban comes a bit close very soon it will be illegal to light up in new york city's parks beaches and pedestrian plazas like this one in times square violators caught blowing smoke can be slapped with a fifty dollars far. if that's so dangerous why do so probably make the law because they wa

you know, it's one thing to do it in new york city in an integrated nightclub or in sort of progressiveer cities that were analogous to cafe society, but she would never do the song in the south--almost never. i only came across a couple references to where the song was performed in the south. she tells the story about doing the song once in mobile, alabama, and having the police ride her out of town, essentially order her out of town. i would have loved to have documented that. again, it's one more issue i tried to examine, and there was just no record left behind. why do you think the b.b.c. banned strange fruit? i really don't know except that the song is trouble, and when the b.b.c. would have banned it, the british were all over africa. i suppose; i never thought about it before. i suppose it was analogous to the problems that the song had in france, which-- i mention that the song was translated into french-- a very good translation, actually-- and meeropol tried to get it recorded in france. and he got a letter back from his french publisher, saying-- you know, this is in 1953 or

depending on what happens with these items, you can see that the city has the opportunity to make significant progress toward meeting its structural imbalance. and potentially leaving us with a preliminary estimate and shortfall for next year of just under $150 million, which would be significant progress towards structural balance in the city's budget. >> what specifically from the five-year plan? >> it is $115 million in solutions adopted for the 2012- 2013 fiscal years. the single most significant one of those is the continued retracing of our capital spending. so the budget you had before you reduces the planned spending level on capitol significantly from that adopted in the 10-year capital plan. continuing that action next year is the single largest piece of this $115 million. other significant pieces included suspending colas for nonprofit providers for the next several years. that is approximately $20 million. capping hotel tax allocations and taking all of the growth from the hotel tax and to the general fund is about another $10 million. lastly, suspending the prop h for this goal set-aside

there actionable by agencies and allow the city to track progress. one indicator and one measure, and i think this is -- i will explain why it is important for regulation -- transportation noise. in the course of this work, we created a new map of transportation, a modern map of transportation noise in san francisco, which is shown at the right, using modern software and technology. before this, the city had not updated its transportation map. the last one was 1974. why is this important? we need to know what noise levels are to decide when and where we will design buildings to have adequate acoustical information to protect them. noise is an important and our mental health determinant. without this information, planning and building cannot do their job in regulating noise. this has been approved by the planning department and is now being used to make those decisions. it is the way our expertise and information actually integrates into the planning process. last, i will talk about some challenges and how we address those challenges. there are a numb

progress on the data center consolidation project discussed previously. we have moved forward with this idea of continuing and using consolidation as a way to save the city money. the progress that we made was finalizing the two sides with a new facility at the airport. they are now partially staff and actively working with the department of human resources to fully fund the staff. all of the departments participating are donating time back to make sure that we stay on schedule. there are a lot of volunteer effort going on to make sure this moves forward. it is a template to show how this type of technology can be beneficial to the city. the service to be directly maintain. we will be virtual lysing 70 of those servers over the next month. we will report back you during the sixth period. we have been going down as fast journey of consolidation. there is the e-mail project we are under way with no. another good example of how we started to bring the other disparate systems in the city. we have talked about enterprising agreement we have done in the last year and how they have saved us money in the city. we are well under way in replacing those city fiber l

by progressive i mean the sense that we have to make government and the city work for everyone, and that means that not just those who are doing well. it is also those who are not doing so well. it also means making sure the city works for the middle class and to think of innovative ways of addressing issues and to not be afraid to think outside the box. that is what i see as being "progressive," in that sense. ultimately, there is a guiding principle. that is how i approach government. i believe in good government, transparency, accountability. i believe in making sure that we follow best practices. i think that is something that often times transcends the left, the middle, the right. it goes beyond that. and that is why, you know, as a supervisor i focus so much on contracts and how the city spends money, which is not traditionally a progressive issue. but i believe we have an obligation to make every penny count and to make sure that we are making the most for the very limited resources we have. >> let's talk about the issues facing san francisco. what do you feel are the biggest issu

i have a progressive outlook in terms of how i see things, and by progressive i mean we have to make government and make the city work for everyone, and that means that it's not just those who are doing well, it's also those who are not doing so well, those who have the least. but it also means making sure that the city works for the middle class. >> good evening, everyone. good evening. thank you all for being here. and when we first got into office about two years ago, we started talking to the mayor's office of workforce and economic development and trying to figure out how we can help different corridors within our district have a better sense of what that neighborhood should look like, what its main concerns and priorities should be and a strategy for the community. and that means business, residents and the city working together to make whatever that vision is a reality. ultimately if there is a guidance on how i approach government, i believe in good government, i believe in transparency, i believe in accountability, i believe in making sure that we follow best practices. i think that oftentimes transcend

city op al shugur. fear of violence has forced almost 7,000 syrian refugee toss flee to neighboring turkey >> a firefight in progressiraqi city of baqubah outside a provincial government building, according to iraqi officials. they're saying insurgents are holding people hostage inside the local government offices. some reports suggesting at least seven have been killed and others wounded. iraqi officials say the militants shooting from the roof of the building. >>> european finance ministers are trying to sort out greece's latest debt crisis. they're holding an emergency meeting later today in brussels to talk about whether athens needs a breakout. >>> hillary clinton told african union members to act now and to show more support for libyan's transitional national council. >> i urge all african states to call for a genuine cease-fire and to call for gadhafi to step aside. i also urge you to suspend the operations of gadhafi's embassies in your countries, to expel pro-gadhafi diplomats and to increase contact and support for the transitional national council. your words and your actions could make the difference in

per head but $750,000 ceiling which the controller had opined, this is much more progressive and beneficial to the city by sup planting the two. that was the amendment he was referring to. so you're speaking from the original legislation that had been amended. >> ok, the $750,000 ceiling is per employee? >> no, no, no. >> commissioner clyde: that is for the entire company? >> that's right. commissioner clyde: but you feel that is an adequate compensation to the city for -- >> very much so -- commissioner clyde: and respects the intent with the payroll tax. >> with the treasurer, tax collector and controller felt this was a more effective way to go and that is what our legislation was amended to. but everything you said was right up. >> commissioner clyde: thank you for the collarification. i would like to add on supervisor farrell's legislation, which is provided now, i have to say i appreciate the elegance of it, the simplicity of it. i am concerned about it being open-ended on the time line precisely because of the difficulty in changing the payroll tax and how -- my concern is how we will replace th

city. the development plans are progressive based on forward thinking concepts about sustainable approach to urban design and living. i encourage you to support this project. supervisor mar: thank you. we are joined by the former supervisor. >> good morning. we have a housing crisis in san francisco. a housing crisis that was created by your predecessors. your predecessors failed to recognize that housing in the city is the most affordable housing -- not the new housing. the demolition of the most affordable housing is something that even the housing element in the past has recognized is a policy that should be opposed by the board as a policy for our city. however, that has been ignored by your predecessors in the redevelopment areas in the western addition, iand as a result of freeways, we have demolish housing. as a result, we demolish the most affordable part of our housing stock. the result of that, we had a housing crisis for the corporations fled and took hundreds of thousands of jobs to the suburbs. we now have the economy in a straitjacket. you do not now go to parkmerced and most 1