that no one wants to put on the record that they are trying to sponsor improvements at san francisco general hospital? or is that somehow tied in directly to the upcoming audit? thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, budget and finance. ♪ black is black general hospital wants its money back credit went away for what can they do because they are feeling blue they have got so much to lose i want to read a in the news that they have got money from you it is yellow i want to yellow yellow lots of money i need from you, what more can they do, they are feeling blue? ♪ supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of a public that wish to comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues, this item is before us. we have a motion to move it forward, and seconded. we will do this without objection. item #two -- number two, please. >> item number two. ordinance appropriating $1,000,000 of mirant potrero, llc, settlement funds to the department of public health for neighborhood improvement and mitigation in the neighborhoods most impacted by the potrero power plant in fy2011-

public work contract to install a new, permanent emergency electrical generation system at san francisco general hospital to increase the not to exceed amount from $18,000,000 to $20,500,000. >> good morning. my name is ron alimeda. i am the program manager for the general rebuild. i am here with the project manager. i appreciate mr. rose and his report, and the level of history and detail in the report and his recommendation. i have a brief power point to facilitate giving background to the project. the first slide it is just a quick overview of the generator replacement project that is occurring in the building that serves as the central plan. it provides the essential utilities to keep campus software. we are introduced to the new generator system in that building, while maintaining all of the central abilities that remain active. this resolution is seeking to increase the current $18 million capped to $20.5 million. i want to underscore that funding is coming from the rebuild. additional capacity is trying to mitigate issues that we would encounter, two of sort some of the rebuilds go. -- to absorb s

he believes part of the success is being treated at san francisco general, the first hospital in the nation to receive special certification for its traumatic brain injury programs. >> and thank you very much. and several activists trying to help the homeless are moving around san francisco ahead of the police now z they're occupying vacant properties to make the case that empty housing should be used to house homeless. and we're live with more on the fast moving protests. >> we saw some action just a few minutes ago. san francisco pd closed gehry for a few minutes so they went inside of the vacant hotel and began removing banners and other belongings. they were sure that some were inside that hotel. they were not sure home. we want to show video taken just a short time ago of police in riot gear moving in. about 20 moved from back of the bill together front and police told me those inside were going to be arrested for trespassing. and who are they? the group is called homes not jails and earlier, the unit went inside another hotel holding nonlethal weapons and bolt cutters. after a t

san francisco is, needless to say, invested in who the next mayor will be. one of our largest and most successful partnerships is with san francisco general hospital. we partner with the city for doctors in health-care providers at san francisco general here -- general. we also partner with the school district to support quality science education. we touch about 90% of the schools in the city. finally, the campus here has blossomed into a vibrant campus. before mission bay was opened, it was over 1% in the bay area. today it is over 6%. coincidentally, that was the year that apple computer was founded. many of you have noticed the current construction under way across the street. that will be home to our new cancer women and children's hospital expected to open in 2014. we will have two hospitals. as i said, we are an integral part of the city. we love the city. it has been part of the very fabric of ucsf for years. it is with great pride that i welcome the candidates. with that, i would like to introduce the president of the san francisco beat of voters, patricia mcgovern. [applause] >> good evening. welcome. my name is patricia mcgovern. we are de

this photo taken at san francisco general hospital this morning shows stow on a stretcher with his parents and sister at his side. he spent nearly seven months in the hospital, but now he is beginning the next phase of his recovery. his move indicates progress, although experts cannot predict whether he will continue to improve. abc7's carolyn tyler reports. >> reporter: when brian stow left the medical center in los angeles in may after being severely beaten outside dodger stadium, he was comatosed and on a gurney with a traumatic brain injury. leaving san francisco general hospital today, bryan stow is ready for rehab. his doctors say the giants fan is breathing on his own and eating and interacting with his family and even talking and responding. >> today i had a report back from the hospital that he is now gone to, and one of my colleagues said she mentioned my name to brian, and he said tell him i said hello. so i think that's a dramatic improvement from where he started to where he is today. >> the surgeon said it has been a rollercoaster in terms of treatment. stow had a piece of hi

this photo taken at san francisco general hospital this morning shows stow on a stretcher with his parents and sister at his side. he spent nearly seven months in the hospital, but now he is beginning the next phase of his recovery. his move indicates progress, although experts cannot predict whether he will continue to improve. abc7's carolyn tyler reports. >> reporter: when brian stow left the medical center in los angeles in may after being severely beaten outside dodger stadium, he was comatosed and on a gurney with a traumatic brain injury. leaving san francisco general hospital today, bryan stow is ready for rehab. his doctors say the giants fan is breathing on his own and eating and interacting with his family and even talking and responding. >> today i had a report back from the hospital that he is now gone to, and one of my colleagues said she mentioned my name to brian, and he said tell him i said hello. so i think that's a dramatic improvement from where he started to where he is today. >> the surgeon said it has been a rollercoaster in terms of treatment. stow had a piece of hi

hospital but his recovery isn't over. david stevenson live with the new picture of stow showing today's big move. >> reporter: he left san francisco general this morning, bound for a secret location to continue a roller coaster recovery. the still picture shows the injured fan leaving san francisco general hospital early this morning. he is franked by his parents, his sister, and his doctor. >> he is an amazing individual. >> it's a bitter sweet moment. we have at gotten very close to the family. >> reporter: tonight he is being treated in a rehab center as he continues to recover. the 42-year-old paramedic and father of two was severely beaten outside dodger sad am offer the season opener last march. two men are charged. in may he was taken from los angeles county hospital to san francisco general. >> brian came here, he was in a com atose state and when he left he was beginning to speak and is starting to eat as well and making dramatic progress. >> reporter: he said he will be monitored for blood clots but his medications have been reduced and he is able to leave his hospital bed as his recovery continues. >> i think that while he had

i am a medical director of the san francisco general hospital women's options center. thank you for inviting me to speak about the health consequences of abortion delight. i became a position to reduce suffering. most of my clinical and research career has been devoted to women who need patient -- later abortions because these women are so vulnerable and the circumstances they face are so heart wrenching that i am motivated by them every day. as an ob/gyn the cares for women and also does abortions, i always encourage women to either get prenatal or abortion care to maximize their health and minimize risk. if a woman makes the choice to enter pregnancy, she should receive save and respectful care without facing additional barriers or delays. decisions about ending a pregnancy can be complex and difficult enough without the additional struggles women face. to find a provider come get money together to pay for the abortion and bus ticket, could potentially face criticism from friends and families, and all this just to do what is necessary and right given their circumstan

that were instrumental and helped us all out on june 2 and 3rd and 4th, the members of san francisco general hospital. dr. andre campbell and leslie dubbin who were very helpful and were hoping for a different outcome than what we experienced. we also have our police chief with us. thank you for being here. members of the command staff. you'll hear from the mayor soon. i'd like to start off this, a simple but symbolic ceremony and i'd like to ask our department chaplain, father john green, to begin with an invocation. father green? >> before the invocation today, i would like to ask you to join with me in acknowledging the valarios and perezs and the great sacrifice they made for us. [applause] if anything, our grief is more real now than it was a few months ago, and so it's all the more important that we remember each other and we pray for each other as we continue to struggle with the death of not only two fighters, but two friends, two sons. in the book of job, we hear, "oh, that my words were written down, would that they were inscribed in a record that, with an iron chisel and with lead they wer

of public works to execute an amendment to the emergency public work contract at the san francisco general hospital and to increase the not to exceed amount to approximately $20.5 million. supervisor chiu: can we do the same house, call? without objection, the resolution is adopted. >> item 10, resolution responding to the 2010-2011 civil grand jury report entitled "hunters point shipyard: a shipping landscape" an aging the mayor to cause the implication of accepted findings and recommendations through department heads and through the developer of the annual budget. supervisor chiu: without objection, the resolution is adopted. i am 11. >> 11 is a resolution responding to the 2010-2011 civil grand jury report and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through his department heads and through the development of the annual budget. supervisor chiu: this resolution is adopted. >> item 12, urging sanford's is the business of the transportation agency to reconsider and abandon the decision to shift the burden of credit card merchant charges to the city cabdr

san francisco 59 years. i am glad to say that i survived 20 years working for the city of san francisco and san francisco general hospital. in regards to the hiring practice of the city. i would like to point out how the system is manipulated for my direct experience at the hospital. many of my co-workers kept telling me and eventually i experienced where our superiors basically verbally discouraged us from taking any tests because they basically said between the lines that the person was already chosen. now this is from my experience. i have taken one test. i finished with a near-perfect score. and you tell me in 20 years how a person with my qualifications and never was promoted and never took another promotional test. so i would dare department of human resources, to tell me that it is not an ongoing and longtime practice where applicants are verbally discouraged to taking tests because, basically, the appointee has already been chosen by management. second, i would like to point out that the civil service commission helped me in regards to my problem. i would like to give credits to kate. after her departure, i hate

the 59-year-old supposed to create art work for san francisco general hospital and central subway. many are not willing toing forrive him even if it was for an art film and so long ago. >> he did it will fly. i think that just saying sorry is not enough. >> and he told abc 7 killing the dog was inexcuseable and he's supposed to be paid $1.5 million for two art projects. >> a new independent study finds if california lags the rest of the nation in school spending by widest margin in four decades. the california budget project found the state spent nearly 3 thoou less per student than the rest of the country coming in 46th on k-12th grade education spending. california coming in dead last on the number of students per teachers and 47th on k-12 state spending. >> teachers angry over cuts are demonstrating in an educational reform conference now. the conference is at the palace hotel hosted by the foundation for excellence in education. the foundation wants an end to tenure and recommends salaries that reward learning. rupert murdock is speaking tomorrow. the california teachers associ

. >> reporter: this picture showed bryan stow leaving san francisco general hospital early this morning. he's flanked by his parents dave and anne stow, his sister bonny stow and jeff manly. >> he's an amazing individual. it's a bittersweet home. we've all gotten very close to the family because they've been there. >> reporter: tonight stow is being treated in an undisclosed rehabilitation center as he continues to recover from brain injuries. the paramedic and father of two was severely beaten outside dodger stadium following the season opener last march. two men are charged in the assault. >> bryan came here he was in a comatose state. when he left us today he was able to begin to speak, interact with his family and he's now beginning to eat as well and he's making dramatic progress. >> reporter: manly say stow will be monitored for blood clots and other set backs but his medications have been reduced and he's able to leave his hospital bed as his recovery continues. >> i think while he had a rockier course than most over the last five months, i think that he is starting to meet miles

. >> bryan stow has been released from the san francisco general hospital. >> we are there is the former paramedic begins the next that in his recovery we have the exclusive video. [music] >> and ap in the oakland police chief is calling it quits just after two years on the job anthony batts says that it is time to step down. dan kerman has been covering the story and he joins us live from the oakland police headquarters with details on what the chief quit and how city hall is reacting. >> your right, the chief is here frustrated he says and he's been held, for all the crime in oakland yet he is not a control for his department can and cannot do. as a result he said that it is time to step down. >> had and have full control of the oakland police department i did not have the ability to make the decisions that are want to make him run the organization in this town that i would like. this is the second police department that i've had that have been in this position and i felt that i have been in my tenure have had about 20% control of this police department but have full accountability in

sailors, marines, and coast guard visited our hospitals in palo alto, san francisco, and also san francisco general hospital children's ward. having attended last year, i got the same for this year. the kids, doctors, nurses, they did not want these sailors, marines, and coast guard to leave. most importantly, it was a two- way street. all of them said the same thing. it was great to be involved with the community, to do these projects, and to come away with the great feelings they have of san francisco. if you do one good act, it has a ripple effect. i suggest to you the community relations project of fleet week are a veritable tsunami of goodwill. thank you. [applause] >> i am the gift that keeps on giving. i am sorry to come back up again, but jeff reminded me of a project we had during fleet week. that involved having military music throughout the city. one of our events was a high- school band challenge that took place in the golden gate band show at 10:00 a.m. on columbus day. six high school bands from as far south as castro bill, all the way of the peninsula to benicia, competing with the m

but doctors at san francisco general hospital says stow is making so much progress, they released him from the hospital and sent him to a rehab center. >> when bryan came ahere, he was in a comatose state. he can speak and began to eat, as well. >> reporter: the family wanted the transfer to be quiet. worried a high-profile event could put his health in jeopardy. the family is not releasing his location until he settles into an aggressive routine. >> he's going to be tuckered out, i'm sure. >> reporter: but stow is getting stronger. >> you can hear him from the end of the bed as opposed to putting your ear to it. >> reporter: hopefully by baseball season stow will be ready to throw out the first pitch at a giants game. >> opening day. if that would be the case, he lost a year of his life. but, you know, if that's the -- if he's back, okay. ou no th n ng be o . > rt s i ok or ng l ti w, o i t a s ca c en d rs m or bl ot n i gs w e' s re er wi p au b e o e an ow xp ng fu co . >> ab at b ic b i s pr in as th im i ti on wo h ge n he rc st be g ry w. b m e d ck c n mb wh im y ar at ll se >

to support debra walker's comment by virtue of the fact that my personal experience at san francisco general hospital, when we had to convert from a very archaic manual system to a vanilla system that needed to be testified -- customized for the university's needs and we had to a degree of medical records, assignments, and billing. may i repeat, billing, money. this is extremely important to have online services that were generated on the floor with patients to be able to be tracked immediately and captured for billing purposes. complex is beyond -- i cannot even describe it. so i appreciate what is happening here. i am simply saying that two years, as long as it is, is going to be going very fast. the biggest problem, i would advise you, is the training staff. it is always orders of magnitude is difficult to go from what you know to an automated system. i do not know anything about this company. i do not know about the system. but i do know people. i will tell you that if you can get the system honed very carefully, it will grow much faster and will be more successful. and you need a backup system f