and we were keeping our workmen's comp reduced. the department queens and resurfaces streets, maintains trees and designs and maintains city-owned facilities. remove graffiti and provides cleaning services to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. the organizational truck has over -- who are responsible for providing these functions and discipline. both are all work together to fulfill the mission of public works in delivering world-class service. we began the process of updating our 2012 strategic plan. which has allowed us to integrate a lot of the mariposa jobs initiative. as well as allow us to prepare work plans and performance plans for our employees. as you know, we do have a number of [unintelligible] and we are responsible for implementing and managing many of the city's capital projects. illegal dumping continues to be a huge problem in many of our neighborhoods. leaving it on a sidewalk which is an extensive campaign in ecology. we're forming a new partnership with retired police officers and sheriff's as well as the san fra

it is not to reduce overall health-care costs. it is to simply transfer those rising health-care costs from seniors on medicare to seniors. that is what the congressional budget office said that under the earlier version of the ryan plan, 10 years from now, seniors on medicare would pay $6,000 more for the same set of benefits. the new plan, it will cost seniors more for the same reason -- they are simply transferring costs off of the medicare program, not reducing costs are saving costs. they are transferring them to seniors on medicare. at the same time, your budget says they will provide big tax breaks for the very top. the other point i want to make is that in the health-care plan for members of congress provides protection for members of congress against rising health-care costs. it is a fixed percentage, premier support as opposed to a voucher plan. as health-care costs rise, members of congress can be assured that 72% of those costs will be covered by health care -- the health care plan. they are proposing a much worse deal

man: sewer systems are installed to reduce public health problems. now what you're doing is transferring the problem, you're transferring it to downstream cities. in addition, cities and towns above pittsburgh were doing the same thing. and then they were affecting the water intakes of pittsburgh. 90% of this region gets its drinking water from those same rivers that we have overflows occurring. hecht: we have sewage overflow with as little as 1/10" inch of rain. and our average storm here is a 1/4" storm. lichte: over a year's period, 16 billion gallons' worth of combined sewage and stormwater overflows into our rivers. tarr: it's not a problem of point "x" and point "y" alone. this is a watershed problem. a watershed problem. lichte: the watershed encompasses many municipal boundaries and it doesn't know any local politics. narrator: in the pittsburgh system, 83 cities and towns use the same sewage treatment plant -- alcosan. so all 83 municipalities have to work together to address the problem. schombert: we know we have billions of dollars that w

reducing this will really help contractors reduce cash flow. >> any other commissioner questions or comments? i cannot see anyone on the small business commission having a problem with this one. goothis is strictly to try to hp them. have we had any negative comments? when the state introduced this bill, there was some opposition. some said this would reduce the leverage the city would have on making sure contractorspe

it reduces the on site obligation and caps that. it allows for mayoral veto should new revenue sources not be available, and it is a 30- year term. outside of the charter amendment, we are looking at returning the inclusion ary threshold for up to 10 units, eliminating the five to nine requirement, a citywide bmn -- bmr buy-up program, and extending fee deferral for high- rise developments for affordable housing fees. finally, administratively, we will be implementing an extension and developing our housing loan extension program. that is the big picture. happy to address any questions that you have, but thanks for your time. commissioner fong: thank you. do you have any specific questions, or keep moving on and we will wait for questions at the end? thank you. are there any other presenters? that is it? ok, opening up for public comment at this time. public comment on this item. no speaker cards on this item? ok, commissioner antonini. commissioner antonini: thank you. i have a few questions for the speaker. part of what i have hea

but it reduces the income flow of the banks reduces the power and gets the dick good and otherwise we're on the wrong side of that event horizon we have to get back on to the out the sod but i think we risk being sucked into that we're already in the black and already this is what people don't realize because they don't even think about it well if you're in the black hole from that physical us and you can't get out of it not even liking it i can't get up because a lot kind of bullish part of the mess of the black hole that we could abolish part of the mass of the black hole simply by saying let's reduce this debt level by converting it from public from private to public but not by putting it into the banks put it into the public the people rather than the banks aren't isn't that what bankruptcies are supposed to do what i personally don't do as well but i'm sure that bankruptcy is like a bit like the whole kings right. with the bus hole loses mass of its own natural dynamics and that can actually limit a black hole over time and if we can get that way too if we were a law upon the natura

this party is reduced to two times the regular fee. thank you. >> calling item 8, appeal no. 12-078, burress and elizabeth ericsson, purses the department of building inspection. the property is 2680 greene street, protesting the issuance on may 312012, to green broderick l l c a permit to alter a building, interior remodel at all levels, partial light well infill on west side, and seismic upgrade, including 3 new bathrooms, new wine cellar, laundry room, new elevator, roof deck, projected balcony at rear. one for hearing today. the zoning administrator seems to want to speak first. vice president fung: is their resettlement? >> no, the parties would like additional time to discuss the matters. if it would be possible to hold this over to the last item on the calendar, i know there is only one more item remaining, but hopefully there will be time for the parties to make it official. president hwang: i'm fine with that. >> we will hold this matter until we hear the next and last item on the calendar, which is appeal number pull-079, ter

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what needs to be done is to put in a policy that reduces spending gradually.gets that debt down and keeps it from growing so rapidly. it makes sure that we are not going to increase taxes and a clarity in that sense. the question is whether we can do it politically. gerri: romney today on the campaign trail had this to say about his economic plan. >> i am not looking, as i know the obama people want to say, to reduce taxes for wealthy people. i'm looking, instead, to lower tax rates and limit deductions and exemptions in such a way that we have enterprises, small businesses, able to keep more of their ca at pital,e same time, simplify their code. gerri: john, you are part of that romney kitchen cabinet -- the economic advisors. giving him advice on how to handle the economy. does he ever right here? >> absolutely. what is holding the economy back his concerns about tax increases. he can put in place a policy that rules out out and actually reduces marginal tax rates and extends the base, that encourages firms to hire, take some of the cash and put to good use,

if lawmakers do not reduce the deficit, they will need to reduce that later. at some point we will need to adopt policies that require people to pay more in taxes, except less in government benefits and services or both. in closing, i want to acknowledge the more than 120 people at cbo involved in the production of this report. the staff of the joint committee on taxation provided the able assistance. i appreciate to those people for their talents and dedication. thank you. we're happy to answer your questions. >> if the fiscal cliff is weak. why is that? >> the evidence suggests that the following financial crises, economies tend to have more severe slumps and more gradual recovery. then is the case following recessions do not follow financial crises. in the united states today, think demands for goods and services is being held back by a number of factors. the building of our housing stock leading to the financial crisis. there are a large number of unoccupied houses today, quite a bit fewer than a few years ago because it housing construction has been so we

your dead so you start reducing your dead now and ordinarily are should therefore increase my spending on computer gizmos this is the model but i don't because interest rates. that when the rights dropped close to the process. they had to drop below zero. to encourage me to balance your dropped spending on shoes with mine crew spending on computer gizmos right and that's the explanation as to why we can't get out of the cross and so basically no matter how low rates are how long there is zero people are borrowing to spend more of you know they're going to challenge this thing will be borrowings dropping then that's a good thing at the same spending hasn't risen to balance so that's isometry because the crip going to people like reagan put it that way so what they have so you've got to have the government spending to make up for the lack of spending by the size as you need to be encouraged by rice of interest the reserve comment right now it's a sense has to plausible needs theory unfortunately it's imperiously for us it's too bad too bad for the for the prestigious guys that sit on the

reducing this will really help contractors reduce cash flow. >> any other commissioner questions or comments? i cannot see anyone on the small business commission having a problem with this one. goothis is strictly to try to hp them. have we had any negative comments? when the state introduced this bill, there was some opposition. some said this would reduce the leverage the city would have on making sure contractors perform on their projects. goothere are other tools, and te is a mechanism to make sure contractors fulfill their requirements and deliver a performance and payment on since -- and payment bonds. >> it is a pretty straightforward proposal. i do not think it has to be amended unless anyone has changes to make. otherwise i would like to ask for approval. let me open it to public comment, and seeing none, public comment is close. but i would like to ask if anyone would like to approve this as worded. taiex i would move to approve. >> do we have a second? >> i second. >> any objections? seeing none, the motion is approved as is. >> that motion passes, 5-0. >> next item. >> item 7, d

it is also something that is reducing our reliance on foreign oil. we are importing less than 45% of oil from foreign countries. three years ago, it was 62%. it is helping the consumer at the pump. there are benefits. you have to ask yourself not only what are the supplies going to be -- we are seeing estimates of reducing our yield. what is the demand going to be? is the market already responding to signals as a result of drought? the market is responding. we are projecting livestock use of corn to be reduced by three-quarters of a billion bushels. we are suggesting exports may be 600 million bushels less than we expected. we have seen facilities shut down. we estimate 500 million bushels and corn lesson ethanol production this year than just two months ago. the market is already adjusting. secondly, there is flexibility built into the renewable fuel standards. the companies have the capacity to use these creditsgainst any credibility under then renewable fuel standard. the market is already responding and there are significant benefits which have t

supervisor chu: it gets reduced -- >> yes. supervisor chu: thank you. with regard to the budget analysts recommendation? this is an allowance under the initiative. and the budget is assumed before you. >> madam chair, eyes -- i fail to mention the control, which is $6,653, and that is ongoing savings that would allow an increase in the budgets department of the 6%. >> if there are no questions from the committee at this time, let's move on supervisor avalos. >> i'm not sure if my staff had contacted the control office about the small-business exemption that we preliminarily passed last tuesday. it does show a hole in the budget of two million dollars and i think it would be important to consider within the context of the budget and last week we approved it without an improvement in the budget. it did not seem to go anywhere. as we are looking added, and having a discussion about the decision that we made last week, about whether we want to put a two million-dollar hole into the budget, that means we have to restore $2 million before we want to do any ki

reduced we do have a lot of fog out there. if you're heading into , some of emergency maintenance will slow you down there. 95 northbound, no accidents, but a lot of delays. as you can see, it is a bottleneck situation. 66 throughio on at centerville. >> we start with breaking news where emergency cute crews are still victimng for a possible overnight. tracks ande off the the bridge crossing. several cars in the parking lot were crushe at this point, we are waiting in news conference. also this morning, another top story. police still looking for a in a chase that killed an officer on i-95. adrian morris was killed when was drivingar he into a ditch. the officer joined the 2.5 years ago. was a native of jamaica. inbecame a u.s. citizen 2009. cruiserriving a police around noon yesterday. witnesses are adamant that the suspect's vehicle rammed the the call and put it in a ravine. of course, this all started at a shell gas station. police officers responded to an theft.ed car police pursuit, tragically ended. fellow officers were

that requires reducing volume going towards this location. so that we can observe the number of times that this location is just charging flow. on the west side we are looking for support to reduce the volume and occurrences that happened out on ocean beach and public beaches. ok. the second strategy is constructing redundancy for several of our critical forces. they were able to know after seismic events that things would be reliably running. later on in the program he will hear the bayside improvement program. we will talk about different options for meeting this goal. now we will move to gold, which at present is integrated with in green and gray infrastructure. we still do have that metric there, commissioner, which says control and manage flow for 3 hour durations on 1.3 inches of rain. that is our design storm. so, green or gray, we are looking for any collection system asset that we have to meet this requirement and accommodate that. that is not the case now. we have areas that are sufficient. the second collection system strategy unde

greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, improve transit speed, reliability, reduc. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the director of transportation. for me, this is not the academy awards. this is the all-star game. the folks sitting over here are truly the all stars of the city. i've had an opportunity to work with ed, harlan, and jocelyn. behalf of all of us. we are also very lucky to have a bunch of people from sfmta, many of them are here. my job is to introduce the awardees. please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. >> thank you. this is a tremendous honor. it really does feel fabulous to be recognized. one of the relief fund things about this project is that it is just complex enough and just big enough that it is truly a case where hundreds of people were required to really get it off the ground. there's really nothing -- that's the kind of thing we dream about. working shoulder to shoulder with that many people to make something happen. it has never happened before. what a pleasure. unfortunately, the mfac

what needs to be done is to put in a policy that reduces spending gradually.gets that debt down and keeps it from growing so rapidly. it makes sure that we are not going to increase taxes and a clarity in that sense. the question is whether we can do it politically. gerri: romney today on the campaign trail had this to say about his economic plan. >> i am not looking, as i know the obama people want to say, to reduce taxes for wealthy people. i'm looking, instead, to lower tax rates and limit deductions and exemptions in such a way that we have enterprises, small businesses, able to keep more of their capital, at the same time, simplify their code. gerri: john, you are part of that romney kitchen cabinet -- the economic advisors. giving him advice on how to handle the economy. does he ever right here? >> absolutely. what is holding the economy back his concerns about tax increases. he can put in place a policy that rules out out and actually reduces marginal tax rates and extends the base, that encourages firms to hire, take some of the cash and put to good us

may be we should reduce a man's pleasure. may be this was god's way of reducing a man's libido. may be my son is not going to study the torah. we need to identify proudly. but then, am i imposing my will on my child? i can't have a child. week 30, i have an appointment at the hollywood birth center where i will have natural childbirth, which i don't recommend. alex is my primary caretaker today. i read your medical records, do you want to know if it's a boy or girl? yeah, but don't tell me. i ask if she had children. not yet i said. i said it sucks. then i try to be funny. do you think epidurals have contributed. she opens my chart. is says you're having trouble holding urine. i pee every time i sneeze. may be i should wear depends. are you doing your cagels? let me teach you a way that will be fun. i think she's about to make a joke. as you squeeze, save, i love my body. four counts hold. notice your vaginal area tightening. i love my body. squeeze a little harder. i love my body. good. that does make it fun, i say. alex presses on my belly and says seven pounds. how am i going

will tea partiers ever negotiate a deal that will reduce the federal deficit and reduce the debt downi think if romney is the president, there's a much better chance if obama is president. >> how will it work? >> it will be difficult. you're talking about the freshman class in the senate. >> i'm talking about people like ted cruz and murdoch in indiana. >> they're going to be stars. they're going to be fantastic. >> see, your goal is to reduce the government to what? to a nonfunctioning irrelevancy. >> here's the compromise. i'll reduce it down to where we're not borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. >> in other words, no deal. >> deal if we get back to balance. >> what about ten dollars in spending -- >> how about the cuts. >> you don't get the cuts. by themselves. >> usually the ten for one deals is the wimpy version of politics like from popeye. >> i know. >> tuesday for a hamburger today so the tax hikes -- >> except you're not going to get any other deals. just get rid of the democrats is your plan. >> they can stick around as long as they're going to vote for bringing the budget bac

it will not reduce the deficit.ill not move the economy forward. >> jamie: how is the one issue shaping the campaign? let's bring in erin mcpike, national political reporter for real clear politics. erin, great to see you, good morning. >> you, too, thanks. >> jamie: how big an issue is medicare, particularly at this stage of the game, so close to the election? and, the convention, the independents or the persuadables? >> it is a big issue specifically because of florida. as you know, florida has 29 electoral votes and by far is this biggest battleground state and it is the one that mitt romney has to win. and, so some republicans are a little bit nervous about this, because there is a heavy population of senior citizens in florida, that depend on medicare and some of the criticism coming from the obama campaign is under paul ryan's plan in the past, it would end medicare as we know it and therefore seniors could not depend on it in the the way they do. and, that is some of the things we'll be hearing from democrats

the affordable care act reduces the deficit. most recently cbo said about $83 billion over the next ten years. it is a federal savings program in addition to a program that saves people's lives and helps businesses stay open. it's critically important when the republicans talk about repealing it but they do not talk about the fact that would increase rather than reduce the federal deficit. >> thank you so much for being here and for all you've done over the last four years. can you talk a little bit what repeal of the affordable care act would mean to middle class families across the country? >> for middle class families, people really are one injury or one illness away from bankruptcy. people learn -- they learn in the fine print of their policy that their benefits are capped annually. they learn when they get dropped, that their insurance doesn't cover what they thought. for middle class family, this is about making sure that people have the healthcare that they need. it's about making sure people aren't locked into their job