s.f. citi, i want to introduce our elected officials here. scott wiener, mark farrell, david chiu, the president of the board of supervisors, and christina olague, our newest supervisor. [applause] jane kim is here. awesome. we are in jane kim's district. jane and zynga have been the forbearers of the jobs issue, raising our consciousness about that. ed lee adopting that as well. there is somebody in the room, if we could of educated him fast enough, we could have had him stand here instead of me because he is the best speaker i have met. where is mayer brown? [applause] -- mayor brown? [applause] if you were at the dinner last saturday or the inauguration, he can be a stand-up. ed lee announced jay knapf as the chief innovation officer. he is the chief innovation officer, but his nickname is chief heck officer. because we are going to adopt a charter to create jobs in san francisco, we want to think back to where jobs really originate, where people start their work ethic, and that is in g

and media partners, abc-7, a.m. 1400, asian week.com, comcast, and choir.net, ktsf tv, s.f. gov tv, the examiner and world channel. thank you so much for your support. [applause] and if you're -- this celebration also received the support of so many individuals as well as professional small businesses and community organizations. you'll see their names listed on the screen and in the program book. and on the website. a.p.a. -- apasf.org. those attending this celebration for the past few years, we have been treated to so many fabulous and unique ethnic, cultural performances. this year, certainly no exception. the northern california cherry blossom festival just celebrated its 44th year. during which the 2011 queen and court was selected. so tonight, the 2011 court will perform their opening number from the queens program, choreographed by mickey nowitzki and music by shina ringo entitled ringo uotota. please welcome the 2011 northern california cherry blossom court. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> thank you once again. the 2011 cherry blossom court. a beautiful performanc

went to a free meeting for youth -- or s.f. youth campaign. it was a rally, along with other partners of the free meeting for use collision, to let them know how much we love muni and need it to become free. these partners included power use commission, ccdc, jaynestown, soma, soma action network and a cowl of others. so this is a continuation of our campaign to get free muni for all youth living in s.f. we are doing -- on the s.a.c.'s part, we're continuing with the social media campaign, which you can visit at free muni for youth.tumbler.com. we're hoping to get the sfmta to vote on the issue in march. secondly, at our last s.a.c. meeting we had a presentation from megan m., who is the san francisco representative of revolution hunger. and revolution hunger is an organization that works to raise awareness and involvement in world hunger. and the presentation was mainly to get more people aware of the different opportunities that they have to really enact change in the world hunger campaign. you are visit them at revolutionhunger.org. with th

died at s.f. general. >>darya: the cost of getting a pass for will be going up. starting next tuesday, first time a passport applicants will pay $135. >>darya: we are back with more in a couple of minutes. here is a live look outside in san francisco. as >>darya: where is it rating the most and heaviest? concord has a yellow blotches which means it's coming down pretty hard. everyone else has a light coating of rain. the storm will pick up speed as it moves over the bay area. in saw how it doesn't look like they're going to get a ton of rain, but we are keeping our eyes on the road in king bill. >>mark: and the philippines the death toll continues to rise. what troops have been sent to the area to help with relief operations. in greece, protesters tried to break into parliament. there have been no deaths or injuries. police say up to 8000 people took place--took part in these protests. >>darya: there are new allegations of abuse involving another employee in the loss angeles unified school district. this time, it is a janitor. some frantic parents got the word on

[applause] >> walk s.f. is eager to see new investment in wider sidewalks and smarter street design throughout the city. in san francisco, even though we all walk, we still see 800 people here get hit by cars. that is too much. thanks to the mayor's pedestrian safety task force, we know that only 7% of our streets are where over half of all of the serious and fatal injuries occur. that means we know where to focus our resources to save lives. smart investment will pay off for everyone in the city because more walkable streets means more foot traffic. that is better for local businesses. that means safer streets for kids to walk to schools, families to walk to parks, and for everyone to enjoy lives, works, and visits san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> i will now turn it over to mayor lee. i will ask all of us to gather around as he signs the legislation at his ne >> today is 2/3. one there. i only have one of these pens. if i had more, everybody behind me would get one. they're valuable things. otherwise

there is one more thing that the s.f. bicycle coalition and regional advocates are asking for. we support the notion of delegating to the county's a block grant. here in san francisco, we are smart enough to do the right thing and apply that sophisticated lea. let's stop still piping and bring multiple policy goals and stretched the money further. the one thing we are concerned about in terms of blending is the safe return to school. in the first cycle a couple of years ago there was $70 million in the original program. you know in san francisco we have begun a safe route program, a very successful, still young. we are only at 15 schools. we believe it is important to maintain that amount at $70 million. that will mean san francisco county gets about $700,000 -- actually, i think we will get $1.25 million. the short of this is, we are asking mtc representatives and abag to please ask mtc to restore safe routes to $17 million. we are fine with lending everything else, but safe routes is different and young and special enough that we need to give them special protection to make s

i, let's see, i'm also the founder of s.f. made which is an organization that supports local manufacturers. it's a not for profit here in the city. and then my only previous experience here in city hall was on the back streets business advisory board two years ago looking at the eastern neighborhood and neighborhoods and land use policy. it's an honor to be here. president o'brien: thank you, chris. ok. >> good afternoon, commissioners, michael yarne, office of economic and workforce development. commissioner dwight, nice to see you up there. i'm going to try to be brief. it's a somewhat complex topic that we're covering today. i would beg your forgiveness as i move through a large volume of material and my hope is that as, when i complete the presentation of many of your questions will be answered. i'm then more than happy to answer any questions that are left unanswered. with that being said, what i'm presenting tonight is actually not just a fee, it's an entire program. it's the transportation suss sustainability program. t

s.f. card. we have lots of community partners here today. salvation army. we just have so many partners in the community, and that's really what it's about when you're talking about the recovery and resilience as i effort to include the whole community and include our neighbors, our businesses and our non-profit agencies. so with that, it's my great pleasure to introduce mike dayton, who is acting secretary of cal e.m.a. here in california. we work very closely with cal e.m.a. and do so many partnership things. we could not have the success we have in san francisco without such a supportive agency in sacramento. so mike? [applause] >> well, thank you, anne, for that kind introduction. i'd like to thank you, too, for your partnership, your creativity and your team, so i'd like to give you a round of applause for your hard work and your staff in pulling this all in together, today. [applause] >> so it really is an honor to be here today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake that broke lives, homes and businesses, the loma prieta ea

many of us in s.f. citi are very active already philanthropic way. the mayor keeps talking about the philanthropic efforts. funny enough, i am tied to ask him what is in his mind. we have not discussed that yet because we are focused on jobs. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> sopa is a bill in the congress. there is a bill called pipa in the senate. the moniker for the bill in the house is sopa. these bills are tantamount to censorship on the internet. i was with ari emanuel, probably the most famous agent in the country, mark andriessen, in southern california, and we talked about this. mark had the most concise description. do you want to turn the united states into china, where all content is censored? these bills are not good for technology. we can name some of the leading companies of san francisco who, if this bill was passed 10 years ago, would not be allowed to even exist. it would have a horrible impact on these companies today. we are working with senators and congressmen to make sure this bill stops. it was squeaking through congress fairly rap

so, we can see the tool are in a tin-framed case that s.f. elder created so that he could display it. likely he was very proud of his work. this would have been a very important task for him to seal that famous casket shut. the peterson house is a part of our site. it is currently under renovation. will not be open until late spring, because next door to it we are currently constructing a center for education and leadership that will be opened in february of 2012 that will continue some of the exhibits from the museum and help the public learn more about president lincoln, not just his assassination and his death here, but also his life which is also very important for us to understand who abraham lincoln was as a person. >> you can learn more about ford's theater and take a virtual tour of their facilities at fordstheater.org. you can view additional american artifacts program by visiting c-spanvideo.org and search for "american artifact." >>> here's a new website for "american history tv" where you can find our schedules and preview our upc

i think what would really be helpful is if we were able to enlist s.f.p.d.r. uses in san francisco or preserving them or growingi] them. this is exactly the kind of incubators we want to try to woman come up with a plan to -- try to come up withok a plan th is consistent with easternçó neighborhoods. or at least interpret them in a wayt( that we end up with consistency with the eastern neighborhoods plans but also interpreting them more flexibly to allow situations where it might make it economically more feasible if someone could come in and be able to distribute their office, for example, for flexibly. i think that might tend to make it for possible for more things to be developed, still keeping the 1/3 p.d.r., which is a good requirement. so i think those are a few things that i noticed in talking to other people and reading over this report and i really thank you for the report. it's very instructive. and finally, i think we all agree on theç end of year repo about the need for the parks which, we're working on, and for transportation, which, in a p

and the s.f. bicycle coalition is very pleased and proud to be part of it, thank you. >> thank you. >> sue vaughan, and then david. >> oh, good afternoon again. so i am a member of the mtmac, and when we had our meeting there was another motion that we had that did not pass an four of us voted for it. six voted against it. the mpcac urges the board of directors and the board of supervisors to ensure that imp honored by having the t.s.p., this presentation, provide for mitigating projects -- mitigated transit projections where they occur and not rely on a fee alone to mitigate aggregate delay impacts. i think i got that right. so what that means is that we're saying, the four of us -- this is what it means for me, is that i don't think the e.i.r., the transit analysis of the e.i.r. should be eliminated. i do not think that's a good tradeoff. i think that needs to be kept in. ceqa is a good law and i don't want to see this gutted. i don't want to see members of the public lose an opportunity to weig

and s.f. fire has approved it for an assembly of 49 persons including staff. the proposed condition as requiring one city guard which would lead to a ratio of about one guard per 18 or 20 people. just for everyone's knowledge, for nightclubs, our requirement is one guard for 100 patrons and when we have concerns about a venue, sometimes we raise the ratio and say we require one guard for 50 patrons at bars and nightclubs. the proposed operation of this business complies with the health, zoning, fire and safety requirements of the city. nothing suggests the proposed business can't adequately accommodate anticipated vehicle and pedestrian traffic. no evidence indicates the operation we'll mitt noise, dust and odor that will interfere with the peace and enjoyment of the neighboring properties. and the proposed conditions and security plans adequately address the safety of persons and property and provide for the orderly disbursal of individuals in traffic. and finally, no unresolved citations for this venue and for those reasons rerecommend approval. >> thank you