. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i supposed to say the honorable mayor ed lee honorable willie brown mr. gesture pa elementary honorable guests and ladies and gentlemen, in times of the astrology i'm saying this is loving peace that the addition of the wood elements the goat characteristic is taught of love and peace and to be helpful and trusting to clinging and of a nature resistant to change but. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the mayor is here oh. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and now ladies and gentlemen, welcome to chinatown community children's center. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> please enjoy ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ happy new year happy new year happy new

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us >>> good morning, everyone. i'm the ceo of ucfs medical center of children's hospital. this is a big day for us because on this land where it was for many years, the rail yard, the wrong side of the tracks the warehouse buildings. about a year ago there was a vision that this site would be the hospital for the people of san francisco in california and the country in the world. today we celebration this vision becoming a reality. on monday of this week at the far end of this block, we began seeing patients in the conaway medical building outpatient center and in just 3 days on sunday morning we will start caring for patients in the women's hospital, the baker cancer

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serveeater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us >> good morning. welcome to our go transportation authority plans & programs committee of february 10, 2015, my name is is katie tang i'm the new chairperson looking forward to working with the sfmta staff and want to welcome julie christensen our new vice chair and supervisor yee as well as and hopefully by the other colleagues soon our clerk is steve we want to

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us >> it is 1:00 o'clock. this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure, the successor agency commission to the san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday february 17, 2015. welcome. members of the public. madam secretary please call the first item. >> thank you madam chair. the first item is roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. commissioner mondejar. >> here. >> commissioner singh. >> here. >> commissioner bustos. >> here. >> madam chair rosales. >> here. >> all members of the

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us test. >> hey, there san francisco nona back with budget friendly events and activities it is about anniversaries and festivals keep it here to find out were this wednesday with the one hundred anniversary of the scombrl expo on the center on valencia aiming to excavate the city's lost history learn marrow about our awesome city and on friday the ocean fwlm festival see the mysteries of the ocean and experience the tlifl of saltwater skills and also catch films about giant tortoise and sharks and much, much more and on sunday it's in the park swing distance to the golden gate park lindsey in the park office a free lesson they're short and easy and fun from 10 to 2:0

housing san francisco has not zoning this should be a major focus on the housing policy the city's efforts have been heroic we urge you to continue the hard discussions of how san francisco, california welcome newcomers and take care of existing residents thank you. >> good afternoon i don't have 15 pages for you to read dear commissioners projects completed in the neighborhood have been met and exceeded the allocation rfp n a number but the 2014 housing element this number is around thirty thousand it is only for new units and not for counting existing units which one builds new units to be inhabited by humans the 2014 housing element as written has not takes into account the change of the land lay today but based on teetered off on the housing element it is clear that the city has changed since the last element was written we allow additional housing to be built without looking at want specific zoning this change can reasonable tissue more people to get rent and in some cases there are even incentives for people to build to not pay taxes or fees open space is gradually disappearing in our front yards and backyards a major portion of variances is requesting rear yard open space bec

. >> you wanted to clarify that under federal law san francisco, california actually continue to operate without building out the new facilities that's the suspect of the agreement. >> that's the takeover we're trying to get classification there's a big clause in the frill law called grandfathering like fire stations and schools we add nor firehouses and schools in san francisco it's our belief this is grandfathered in without meeting the requirement. >> if we can include that sorry. >> thank you for that information but i i know that we learned a lot in the hearing yesterday my concern would be the potential costs on whether it's the city's general fund to the customers and the huge increases because of this i hope that our board can do our part in helping to resolve this. >> thank you supervisor tang okay supervisor john avalos's. >> just whether it makes sense about the language of new facilities on 2k3wr5rg9d in and good to express that as well. >> tb it is part of our pleadings we'll include that. >> at this point in time open up for public comment seeing none, public comment is clo

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us >> all right. is this cyc? make some noise. cyc. [speaking foreign language] is cyc here? yeah. community love right here. [speaking foreign language] hey good job, good job. smile, smile. it's not that heavy. you make cyc proud, the community. oh yes. all right. i don't know if they're going to fit on stage. you know i wish your captain were here. oh there he is. captain. one of my old favorites. commander is here too. [speaking foreign language] >> okay. i think the mayor so sisters and brothers san franciscans the mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> what a presentation from our golden dragon and all of our wonderful young people. i want to have a specia

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us. >> only mark from ecology good morning, everyone all right. let me begin by thanking everyone for coming out today 0 for this great event this event is about streets but it is a partnership that has city staff from many agencies mta, public health and public works police department, along with the mfrnts and everyone what does business or enjoys stockton street is our fourth yes, we try to do better a couple dialysis we were at the a meeting with one of the merchant one thing we discussed opening up more opportunity to the side streets i promised we'll explore that we heard of so many great success with the program i definitely wants to thank benny and others for

faced by the housing authority and it also identified some of the opportunities that we in san francisco, californiato have a safe descent sanitary housing to implement this work the mayor district automobile cities departments not only the housing and urban development to work with the housing authority to towards the goals of the revision he has committed city resources in excess of $50 million for just the rental system rehabilitation alone and committed the resources of the city to serve the needs of the residents on an ongoing basis and funded hope sf which has revitalized alice griffith and developed the financing plan to revitalize potrero and sunnyvale also (clapping) he is very committed to serving the housing needs of all san franciscans especially those lowest income residents in the city that needs the housing let me introduce to you a very special mayor mayor edwin lee (clapping.) thank you olsen for the introduction a hearty chinese new year the first day of chinese new year we have a lot to celebrate we have malia cohen in the crowd thank you four district 10 and london breed who's st

san francisco sometimes acts as if everyone works 9:00 a.m. to p.m. and no one comes home after that so night life transportation even early evening transportation in san francisco california be very, very challenging and once past 340i7b9d it is hatred and sometimes impossible we know that whether it's patrons trying to get home from a night out at a bar or live music venue in a way they don't have to drive or workers that get off late night or trying to get to and from work on transit without having to drive and people that often cannot afford to take transportation to and from work everyday we've heard about the incredible deficiencies whether the lack of 24-hour bart or the real sketchy reliability of your overnight bus lines over a years ago we shed light on the issues we've heard from employers and workers and owners of late night establishment and patrons and we heard about this challenges that we have shortly after that i authored legislation calling for the creation of a late night transportation working group and asking for the working group to produce a strategic plan for what we can do in the short-term and lutheran to improve the late night objectives that wor

port staff at that they've be participating we're inviting other staff from federal stating san francisco, california and doing it on our own turf. >> the second question once we've brought in an outside contractor how t is this program sustained. >> we'll take the materials that the contractor provide and continue to use that any hope with the constant management team as we become for proficient in how to do the response we'll feel comfortable in providing the ongoing training to ourselves so to continue forward. >> any last question goes beyond the scope but how are the city's precipitation in such an attack. >> not within this program but yes within the city and another other port staff that can speak to it we talk on a regular basis. >> maybe a future agenda item i'll suggest we might 7, 8, 9 to understand that that's on the board room agenda of every board staff what's the security. >> confirmation i can speak to it i sincerely building we'll be presenting a presentation there's a robust group of city officials spearheaded by the chief of police but including representatives from many federal an

the things commissioner king and i were talked about you look around and see the crimes in san francisco california we get some sort of a report on what is happening on the green building how much of a difference are we making because of the policies ♪ the city and county of san francisco because of the building if we were going up someplace else >> i tend to think about our own meeting some ways to build out some the day that's a great idea. >> commissioner king. >> along the lines i want to start diving into how to get the might want single-family dwellings how are we going going to integrate the electric charger for electric vehicles for those folks only for people having $800,000 homelands or only certain folks it that's not fair i want to look at the whole field the green - the reusable fields or whatever their called the i know they looked at it and for colored people they couldn't have cement in their backyard it's not concrete but not organic either. >> sounds good director rafael. >> i want to comment i think i blanked out on the first item i said field oh, the evs i've not talked about in

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doing bad things but there are good folks trying to stop the bad guys like this fella in san francisco, california. look at this. he walks up on this scene. the poster of this video, russell jacobs claims these two trying to steal that bike. using angle grinder to try to saw off the u of lock. >> i don't need your permission to film. >> you. >> 'do. >> [ bleep ]. >> any possibility that these guys do own the bike and lost the key to the u-lock. >> the guy with angle grinder says that. >> guys with angle grinder going on a bike here. >> i lost my -- >> once they get the lock sawed off, russell jacobs claims the guy on the right takes off. asing this guy down while the cops. he doesn't cycle all the way away because the front fender is clipped. the bike is inoperable at this point. san francisco p.d. able to catch up with mr. man in the blue shirt. according to the poster of the video, he wasn't able to prove he stole the bike. at this point, no one knows the actual owner of this bike. but this guy apparently had existing warrants out for his arrest. so this officer was able to put him in cuffs and

. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us devices. >> commissioner. regular hearing for february 12, 2015, i'd like to remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind and please silence all electronic devices. and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll. >> commissioner president fong and commissioner wu councilmember sharp sxhun commissioner hillis and commissioner johnson and commissioner moore commissioner the items for continuance item one at 1546 on market street draft environmental review continuance for march 25th and next amendments to the planning code for the special use those in l

that is part of the conversation today going on in san francisco. >> california stands to gain more thanado and oregon four states that legalized marijuana. so today we heard it's not just about the money. the idea that marijuana may be legal one day created an industry that owners say can only get bigger. this national cannibis proponent and executive director of harbor side health center. >> we look forward to an industry creating jobs, tax revenue. >> california is expected to have an initiative on the november 2016 ballot to legalize marijuana. nerd wallet projects california will generate $519 million per year in tax revenue. companies like steve hill labs are hoping it passes not just for the money but type of safety regulations that would come with it. >> we test for potent yeens and come tam nation to keep it safe for consumers. >> citizens side with the federal government in that marijuana is a drug with a high potential for abuse and should not be legalized. >> people need to recognize how dangerous marijuana is and overcome the idea it's just like alcohol. it's not. it's diffe

that is part of the conversation today going on in san francisco. >> california stands to gain more than colorado and oregon four states that legalized marijuana. so today we heard it's not just about the money. the idea that marijuana may be legal one day created an industry that owners say can only get bigger. this national cannibis proponent and executive director of harbor side health center. >> we look forward to an industry creating jobs, tax revenue. >> california is expected to have an initiative on the november 2016 ballot to legalize marijuana. nerd wallet projects california will generate $519 million per year in tax revenue. companies like steve hill labs are hoping it passes not just for the money but type of safety regulations that would come with it. >> we test for potent yeens and come tam nation to keep it safe for consumers. >> citizens side with the federal government in that marijuana is a drug with a high potential for abuse and should not be legalized. >> people need to recognize how dangerous marijuana is and overcome the idea it's just like alcohol. it's not. it's

san francisco clean energy advocates and california's for energy choice. one of the coordinate ors that helped fight on ab. the rates really need to be challenged. right now the cheapest electricity in california and in much of the country is natural gas electricity. okay. renewables are getting a lot cheaper but they are not

san francisco clean energy advocates and california's for energy choice. one of the coordinate ors that helped fight on ab. the rates really need to be challenged. right now the

california. caroline tyler has been looking into this proposal and is live at at&t park in san francisco with the story. people talked about this off and on for years. >> reporter: yes, they have. california would become the first in the nation and san francisco with its own local measure would be the first city in the nation to ban this product from players and fans at the ballparks. jona and his friends love baseball with the ten-year-old doesn't like is seeing the pros chew tobacco. >> it's setting bad examples for kids like me. >> reporter: according to the cdc, every year more than half a million kids age 12 to 17 try smokeless tobacco for the first time. >> as much progress as we've made in reducing cigarette smoke in teenage boys the use is actually up and it's no small part because of its association with major league baseball. >> reporter: giants coach bruce bochy says he sought help to kick his habit and at spring training today in arizona indicated a ban might be a challenge. >> it's not an easy habit to break. there are so many triggers and you play with it. you learn to play with it.

california has been as quiet as it comes. records in san francisco to the 1850s. >> it must be boring to be a weather guy in california. >> in some parts, yes. but for the first time in 165 years, zero inches fell in san francisco. california needs the moisture. wednesday into thursday a storm system pushes in moisture comes in and a second storm system winds up friday night into saturday with tremendous rainfall possible. possibilities upwards of ten inches in some of these areas. let me show you what happened this past december. december was a soaker. average december in san francisco, four inches of rainfall. all of 2013 about 3 1/4 inches came down. in december nearly a foot came down in san francisco. it shut off in january. the drought situation in january quite extensive. that doughnut across the sacramento valley and san francisco, that's the area. the rainfall was nonexistent for the month of january, and that's never happened dating back to the gold rush. so changes in the forecast you bet. take a look at the moisture streaming in. north of

was made and the san francisco grand jury over the past year the general rational is it will better insensitive the relations and folks have pointed to the san francisco and california so the folks can be recovery up to electro50 percent a row there's no current section that explicit contemplate that the plaintiff will get penalties it provide an incentive to allow for attorneys foes so this is the general proposal and staff will note we talked with the folks in los angeles search warrant as well the state level those provisions are not frequently used in either of the jurisdiction they were different jurisdictions so that's the idea. >> any commissioner have any comments? >> i have a question. >> at this time there is- no one can sue under those circumstances it's prohibited is there language that says it's prohibited. >> in, in fact somebody can sues is he have to essentially run it by the ethics commission and the city attorney first to give us first shot of enforcing those potential violations but assuming the city attorney says and the ethics commission says no. we're going got to do anything the plaintiff can force compliance it is hypothetical but there's a c

california. as we go into possibly our fourth year of drought, the lack of water for farms and wildfire is likely in the near future. we need san francisco and california to head take the lead on climate change and we need cleanpowersf. as a former customer of green mountain energy i really look forward to being once again a customer of such a program. so i urge sf puc to take action on cleanpowersf as early as possible in 2015 and give the citizens of this city and great opportunity to contribute in addressing climate change. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much and thank you for mentioning green mountain. we'll close public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> city clerk: enernex reporten titled quote local build-out of energy resources of the community choice aggregation program ". >> jason fried from lafco. you will see in your packet is a report of the program being launched. one of the things we did after the work by puc staff moving forward on the program what lafco did is look at the studies of the issues that were brought over the years of issue

it is 8:00 at uber headquarters in san francisco, california, 11:00 a.m. here on wall street. "squawk alley" is live. ♪ ♪ >>> and welcome to "squawk alley" for you tuesday morning. joining us this morning special guest guy kau sack question, former chief evan ge list. great to see you again. >> thank you. >> jon and kayla at post nine. hold on as we take stock in the markets. dow up 133 but oil has continued to work. bob is on the floor. >> three factors motivating the markets, europe, oil and earnings. start with europe going into the close in europe that will be in the next half hour. there's some hope there, talk out of greece they may no longer be inns sisting on debt forgiveness. very fluid situation there. throughout the morning the greek market up 11% and holding steady here. europe's by and large holding their gains. spain, france, germany up nicely. germany at a historic high. other major story crude, 51s. we were at 44 a few days ago. a lot of people trying to call the bottom, making arguments, capital expenditures are being cut. strikes in the u.s. sales sector that

san francisco and california is experiencing a climate change. we must change this disruption. climate change is happening right at this moment. it's important that implementation of cleanpowersf happen soon. i strongly urge you that you set rates as soon as possible. we must act now. please act on their behalf. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is sheila hernandez, a san francisco resident. i want to tell a story about the last time i came and talked to the puc was 6 years ago in this building and about 50 residents from the bayview came and said they didn't want community aggregated choice clean energy. i'm a community activist here in the mission district. i was outside talking to people and they told me that pg & e paid them $100 each to say they didn't want community aggregated choice. we have an election cycle coming up. pg & e has donated a lot of money to elected officials in this city and to the city in general. we want this program launched before the next election cycle. they carry a lot of power, they are a monopoly. thank

about a year ago there was a vision that this site would be the hospital for the people of san francisco in california and the country in the world. today we celebration this vision becoming a reality. on monday of this week at the far end of this block, we began seeing patients in the conaway medical building outpatient center and in just 3 days on sunday morning we will start caring for patients in the women's hospital, the baker cancer hospital and the children's hospital of san francisco, the lobby of which we are sitting in right now. it took a village to make this happen. there are so many people in this room here today who were critical to its planning, it's construction, it's operational planning. it's approvals and support to make it happen. we will introduce some of those people later this morning, but i in particular want to bring your attention to the generosity of our

san francisco. >>> the california highway patrol is kicking off a recruitment campaign to diversify. diversity of officers is lower than the state patrol. 7-10 chp officers are white. compared to 4-10 californians who are white. this weekend they will hold recruitment seminars across the state including in concord where they are looking to add more women to the force. >> women had a hard road. with the fire departments across the state. many coming under court order and being forced to diversify. >> the california highway patrol will start accepting online applications on monday on its website. >>> facebook announced a change to its gender identity options today. last year facebook added a list of 58 gender options that you could choose from. now it at ad59th option. fill in the -- it added a 59th option, fill in the blank. you can add your own identity. transgender supporters hope this will open up more dialogue and accept. >>> pg&e is -- anticipateddance -- acceptance. >> reporter: pg&e is upgrading miles and miles of pipeline. ktvu's tom vacar went along to see how it is done. >>

at pinterest headquarters in san francisco, california. just past 1 here on wall street and "squawk alley" is live. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "squawk alley." joining us is henry founder and ceo of business insider. >> great to be here. >> jon fortt is here at post nine as well as calls, but before we get started on all the news in the markets and tech mary tomson has breaking news on american express. >> hey there. this is a statement from american express and the wake of a district court judge rulinging the firm did violate anti-trust law as charged by the doj in 2010. american express is disappointed in the decision and plans to appeal. the company goes on to say the court's ruling will not provide benefit to consumers and will, in fact, harm competition by further entrenching the two dominant networks. a shot at visa and master card. we continue to believe the doj's arguments are flawed and we should prevail on appeal. the judge did give the company and doj 30 days to provide some kind of proposal saying there was middle ground to be found her