have accomplished and made possible seventh assata improvements along san bruno avenue. -- seven facade improvements along san bruno avenue. we have had a series of events to promote a neighborhood pride and involvement, such as an night on the portola, chinese leaders dinner, and a pop-up art gallery this past february right there in that space, which is available for lease. this is the site of our future pocket park and hopefully a coffee house right there in that space. [applause] and i wanted to thank others for their efforts and architects for humanity. [applause] thank you for helping us move this forward. i would like to give a very special thanks to oewd who has been instrumental and supportive. this coming thursday at 6:00 p.m.-exact location, we will be having a needs assessment workshops to determine the needs of the neighborhood in hopes of continuing to make the portola of better place. we still have a lot to do. we're confident that with the mayors of the city's continued support, we're going to get some great things accomplished. thank you, mayor lee, for your commitment

san bruno avenue, we talk about san bruno avenue where all the businesses really are, district 9. right off the bat the targeted areas are district 9, a tan, and 11. that correction is important. secondly, when you offer more loans to entities like renaissance who are connected with the redevelopment, you also need to offer assistance to other entities. one of the ways if you really want to find out about any entity, if they are very fair, is to do an audit. a simple audit on some of the entities that have been mentioned today, you'll find out that even if their employees cannot be working in those areas because of whatever. and the questions that were asked by the supervisor of wells fargo, even though he could offer you $5 billion, wells fargo was very instrumental in many foreclosures. [bell rings] so i am very dubious about bank of america and wells fargo giving monies for this, even if they give it at 0.5%, because they have not treated district 9, 10, and 11 in a fair manner. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. steve, president of

we're celebrating the successful efforts to revitalize san bruno avenue. this city has had a great partnership with the portola never its steering committee, where some of it's never the investments include streetscape improvements, from planting trees and leaves to utility underground in and fixtures and to install office saw improvements and much more. today, mayor edwin lee will talk about launching the investing in iran initiative. joining him is supervisor malia cohen, robert ramirez from the portola neighborhood steering committee, and many department heads, including jennifer from the office of economic and workforce development, ed harrington from the san francisco public utilities commission, regina from the small business office, bevon from sf hope, and revitalizing our commercial corridors has been near and dear to mayor lee's heart since his days as director of dpw and as city administrator and down as mayor. whether it did the dpw community corridor program, ambassador program, or the challenge grant, the mayor is always asking us how can we s

san bruno avenue, we talk about san bruno avenue where all the businesses really are, district 9. right off the bat the targeted areas are district 9, a tan, and 11. that correction is important.

i really want to see this program work in places like san bruno avenue, leland avenue, teravelle, excelsiorare very important. let's see what happens. supervisor chu: thank you. if that is the case, can we entertain a motion to but $500,000 of this $1 million amount on budget and finance committee reserve and send the item forward with recommendations? ok, we do have that motion. before we make it, and to the department. i believe we will need to make an amendment to the actual piece of legislation for it to get hurt on tuesday at the following board meeting. i ask the department to work to make sure the language is put in by the end of today business day. we will do that without objection. thank you. then if we could take a two- minute break or a few minute break. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you for your patience. we're back in session. call item number 6 and 7. >> item number six, hearing to receive a regularly quarterly update from the public utilities commission on water system improvement program to include information on projects completed to date, the corresponding costs, and sc

san bruno. so the problems are in san bruno. one of the things i want to mention, it's also causing delays on san bruno avenue at huntington thereroad tracks. good area to avoid. we'll let you know about this mayor caltrain delay coming up. now let's go to rosemary. >> good morning to you. today a lot like yet. giving you a live look at mostly cloudy sky, overcast for the northern half of the bay area. we have high clouds, mid- and low level clouds. if you saw sal's traffic cam, skies were mostly clear. 50s outside your door this morning. a few still lingering behind in the 40s. napa also reporting 49 degrees right now. but we continue to rebound now that the sun is up. partly cloudy skies expected for the afternoon. and an outside chance of maybe a few sprinkles. down into santa rosa. maybe sonoma county. this rain is going to stick to the north of us for today. eventually we will have the sun come through. near clear lake we have seen scattered showers from time to time. but for most of us we're dry. in the south bay we're not only dry we're fairly mild near 70 degrees yesterday morning as well as today. there's the front that

neglected dogs discovered friday morning in a carport at the p an apartment complex on cherry avenue in san bruno. the dogs being described as terrier mixes. they had to be euthanized because they were so badly abused. one dog had a broken front leg and the other was also injured and severely malnourished. if you have any information you are asked to please call the peninsula human society. there is a $5,000 reward being offered. >> poor little innocent things. >>> 5:19 now. slowly but surely san jose working to improve its roads. city council now designated some 400 miles of streets as high priority for repairs. small part of the $p 3 00 million worth of maintenance. among the improvement projects, the alameda, streets around major job and retail centers, rail and bus corridors, six-lane roads like camden avenue. street work will include ceiling and repaving. lots of potholes. >> yeah. want to get those fixed. 5:20. coming up efforts to make caltrans tracks electric. facing a key vote this morning. >> plus plea for help. bay area nonprofits that say they are in desperate need of donations. >> an

san leandro in recent days. a woman was hit friday afternoon near washington avenue, and a man was hit saturday afternoon near central avenue. >> still no sign of a former marine from san bruno disappeared 10 days ago. 27-year-old joseph mchenry told friends he was going camping and rock climbing. his car was found wednesday near the sharp park golf course. some of his gear was discovered on thursday, but at this point investigators aren't saying exactly what was found or where. searchers scouring the beaches and cliffs again over the weekend but nothing new turned up. >> attorneys for san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi are offering a new argument to keep a video out of evidence. it's the latest tactic in the sheriff's domestic abuse trial. christie smith is live in san francisco where jury selection should resume today. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the prosecution certainly seemed to have a victory on their hands when a court said they would be allowed to show a video of san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi's wife. but now there is an entirely new legal challenge coming out on this on the grounds that he actually wouldn't be allowed to question her in court ov

liquorland in san bruno isn't used to this business early afternoon but people came with cash and dreams. at 19th avenue, lotto machine was constantly printing out numbers. the owner is holding it. >> i get 10 people per hour. now, it's between 350 and 400. >> this store won big prizes, twice. it's also one of the five top jerls of lotto tickets in san francisco. >> in los angeles i was just driving and i saw sign here said store had a couple big winners and i figured i've got to stop by. >> he says chinese customers say one number had to be number eight. >> popular number is 8. according to chinese culture every year when they have a new year there is a number chosen. i don't know how. i get a lot of asians buying 8. >> the number 8 represents fortune. bella won't mind a little of that. >> it's f.i do, oh gosh, i'll have a heart attack. i'll die. who who is going to get the money? >> here is the number. see is in the number 8. i want to make it clear i have the number 8 there. if you believe in that stuff. and there is another number i want to throw out to you. there f.there is only one win winner, cas

animal control officials in san bruno say two severely neglected dogs were discovered friday morning in a carport at the peninsula place apartments on cherry avenue. the abandoned dogs described as terrier types had been euthanized later that day at the humane society. one suffered a broken front leg with a visible bone stub. the other dog suffered from injuries and was severely malnourished. >> our vet examined the dogs and found just horrific, awful conditions -- i mean, just tragic, tragic case. the dogs probably should have been euthanized maybe a year ago, at least several months ago. >> if you have any information about this animal cruelty case you are urged to call the humane society. there is a $5,000 reward being offered. >>> saving the park. state officials say the state parks slate d for closure becaue of budget cuts will be saved. the little hoover commission spent the day with state parks commission brain storming solutions. everything from private donations to local government intervention to even commercial partnerships are on the table. the folks in charge of selling the snacks may run more than refreshment stands. they are alread

avenue near 12 street she is expected to survive. no word on suspects. >>> big multi-million dollar settlement between pg&e and san bruno could be announced early as today. the company has already set aside 70 million dollarses arrest for the natural gas explosion and fire that killed eight people in 2010. the chronicle reports san bruno offs have been pushing the company for up to -- up to 100 million dollars in extra compensation it looks like the city would get a hefty chunk to pay for a library or some other community project. >>> u.s. relations with afghanistan once again in crisis mode after an american soldier went house-to-house shooting civilians. 16 people were killed, most victims were women and children. the taliban is vowing revenge after attack. tahman bradley has the latest on the suspect who is now in u.s. custody. >> reporter: photos from the scene show the carnage. as many as 16 afghans, including nine children and three women, gunned down in the middle of the night. they killed a child says this mother. nato officials believe a rogue army staff sergeant apparently carrying an automatic weapon and a pistol, left his base

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