is the department including money for the equal access to service ordinance, which is san francisco wide. those are questions i thought we would have answered tonight. >> in terms of language access, the department spends about $65,000 per year for translation and interpretation, plus printing costs for pamphlets and things like that. there is no additional money in next year's budget for those costs. however, if they go up, i would be happy to look at absorbing any increase. commissioner dejesus: what was the number? >> about $65,000 for translation and interpretation. commissioner dejesus: okay, we wait for cit. and i had questions about the tasers, for the equipment and training. >> commissioner, we're still putting it -- we're still looking at all the options. we have not even begun to look at how much it would cost for training and where the funding would come from. commissioner dejesus: i put this out because the first part of the question is how much will it cost for the new mental health training and how much it would cost for tasers so we would have a comparison. president mazzu

i'm personally very proud of the work that he has done, that we have done here in san francisco among a wide by what many consider the last batchtyon of president african-american community in after, it is a special honor to be here today buff. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor mirkarimi is here with us but before he calms -- comes up -- comes up i want to mention ralph lewin, with the california huh-uh -- humanities council here with us also. we have a number of other elected and appointed officialed and at i said to them earlier, i was ansigned the task of introducing -- i was ansigned the tasking introducing them and don't have the list but i was specifically threatened bim dr. torea moses if i didn't many introduce him. ing [laughter] or without further ado, supervisor ross mirkarimi. >> i'll make my statements we -- very quick. i just came out of charing the public safety committee meeting. there's a lot be to talk about. i want to say another happy congratulations on black history month here in san francisco. this has been i think a very auspicious haft few mont

. >> san francisco, state- wide, they're sitting off layoff notices. the san francisco, setting off layoff notices, with 400 teachers, a stomach ulcers to be laid off. officials say that the government- teachers' aides--to be laid off and counselors. these may not have to happen if the governors' vote in june it takes place. >> and an east side union high school is getting ready to send out preliminary layoff notices to its 110 teachers off. roughly 5% of the staff. the middle of the month of the pink slips to 50-20 certified teachers. 25-30 certifieclassified teache, and teacher's aide. $30 million budget deficit. 30 million >>reporter: the national transportation with the change to clipper card. there will have to load a minimum of $5 to get a new card. in response to a story from last fall. people were using the $2 minimum and using that and then thrown out the card with their finished. the idea of the new $5 minimum is that we dad would get somebody to get to where there were going without a negative balance. to get the there were going. >> the lar

san francisco. it's also quite warm and landed in the low 80's there. upper '70's in the south bay. temperatures are bay area wider than yesterday in san francisco, 17 degrees warmer in napa. even warmer tomorrow. mostly sunny skies this afternoon, we will keep the high clouds over night into tomorrow. the temperatures on the mild side this evening. if tomorrow, warmer possibly record-breaking temperatures. thursday night, clear but mild conditions but we do have change is coming into the weekend. we will be back after this. yeah! boom! hi, i'm a stunt man. and i love watching me on at&t u-verse tv. i can record up to four shows at once on a single dvr. i can even record a show in this room... ...and play it back in this room. honey, i just vacuumed. [ female announcer ] call now to get u-verse tv for only $29 a month for six months -- hd-ready dvr included at no extra charge. or get $300 back via promotion card with a qualifying u-verse bundle. ♪ [ stunt man ] drop into an at&t store and see how at&t u-verse offers more hd channels than cable. i look good. [ female announcer ] call now to get u-verse tv for only

san francisco beautiful. we are a nonprofit community benefit organization with a wide membership throughout the city of san francisco. our mission is to ensure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, ballots, and diversity of its beautiful, verdant, and vibrant urban center. we are extremely concerned with the esthetic issue of letters piled up in our streets -- [bell rings] supervisor chiu: sorry about that. i think that was a little early. [laughter] >> no problems. we are concerned about the amount of paper left unused and eventually hold off recycling. we believe that the yellow pages pilot program is an excellent response to the issues of literary abatements and sustainability. does not limit the delivery when personally accepted, but is designed to prevent a steady light from being left in doorways. by a vote of the executive committee of san francisco beautiful on march 2, 2011, it is the official position of san francisco beautiful to support this legislation. thank you, supervisors, for sponsoring this forward-looking and contemporary legislation. thank you. supervisor ch

san francisco village. we began in 2007 as richmond village, became richmond village, and then just san francisco village. people want to be a part of a city-wide organization that includes people from all over san francisco, all at the same time, getting to know people in the neighborhoods. the macro and micro in one package. our strategic partners are particularly interested in supporting one central organization. we are also an organization committed to representing diversity in the city. if the city funds villages to reach out to low income members, this is what we will do, working with the city. first, we want to acknowledge this is a major task. very important, a team effort that will be required. we will collaborate with our partners, service providers, and next sf. we will create new partnerships with senior centers and aging organizations throughout the city. we will work with the leaders of major aging organizations. many are already on the advice rick council. we will participate in developing criteria and protocol for selecting low income residents. we will help deliver an instrument to develop attitudinal and a real memberships. if

san francisco. our own joe fonzi will act as master of ceremonies. it will include julie inkster, wide receiver dwight clark, san francisco 49ers super bowl champion coach george seifert and former u.s. golf association president sandy tatum. >>> a baby company wall a born at the san francisco zoo is expected to make a public debut thursday. the new joey, as they are called, slowly began toe ooh merge from her mother's pouch in january. she made it to her mother's back last month. she is the first cool a born at the zoo since 2000. coming up the surveillance video scandal that rocked the san francisco police department is taking a new turn today. an attorney for a man facing drug charges is releasing a new video which he claims contradicts police reports and exonerates his client. see the new footage and find out the latest on the investigation into alleged police misconduct. that story and more coming up in our next newscast, ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. thanks for watching, have a great day.

wide. >>> san francisco police have started enforcing the controversial ban on sitting or lying on public sidewalks. the sit lie ordinance went into affect in december, but the sfpd delayed enforcing it until now because it wanted to properly train officers and inform the public. according to the san francisco examiner, enforcement has begun with warnings. citations will come later. the law prohibits sitting or lying on sidewalks between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily. >>> let's go back and refocus on the weather which as you know is pretty messy outside. sandhya patel is tracking it for us. >> the front is moving through, and that's why we are seeing the steady rain. as we look at live doppler 7hd, you can see we are seeing some pockets of dryer air moving in. that's because the front started to pass through the north bay. you can seat moderate and heavier rainfall stretching toward half moon bay. this is where the cold front is which is why we are seeing the moderate to heavy rainfall right along that front. this is a very moist storm. they are seeing some snow mixing in. winter weather

there is a history in this part of san francisco and the city wide of commercial property being left vacant for long periods of time. the property owned the property in hand and is not forcing tenants to pay rent to make payments, it there is not a market force driving the property owner to ensure the property is occupied. there are certain incentives that would make a property owner keep a property of the market in hopes of an area turning around so they could get a higher and tenet later in the future. the city might wish to consider whether that behavior is in its economic interests or its more in its economic interests to ensure a continued occupation of its commercial property and continual occupation of the infrastructure that serve up property. one way to do that is to impose a parcel tax on commercial properties that are vacant. without speaking to the legal issues involved, i believe that's something that could be done. >my last point -- it does appear in twitter's potential consideration of this policy measure that the issue of twitter stock options, it's a decisive issue b

. >>> a notorious drug spot in san francisco is raising allegations of a police cover up, and it could jeprodize drug cases city wide. leslie has the story. >> san francisco's public defender claims that six narcotics officers may have falsified police reports about arrests they made at the henry hotel at 6 and mission. it could compromise scores of other drug cases. >> taken in december and january on the fifth floor of the henry hotel, this surveillance video shows undercover officers in a hallway following up on a drug tip. san francisco's public defender says in one instance the officers entered a unit without first getting consent. in another, as you see here, someone covers the camera with a hand. >> there is the constitutional violation that is blatant. it is a warrant less, unexcused entry into a person's home. and then there is the perjury that ensues. >> that is the six officers made arrests, filed police reports and even testified in court. >> their version of events of what occurred in that hallway is completely opposed to what we know happened in the hallway by watching the video itself. >> i have some

. >>> and i'm phil matier in san francisco where state wide survey shows how voters are willing to actually take over that task and the reasons behind it just might surprise you. >>> and coming up at 6:30 p.m. much more on the situation in japan including an explanation of the word that we are hearing a lot these days. just what is a meltdown? [ female announcer ] what's so great about jcp cash? no exclusions! with jcp cash, earn 10, 15 or 20 dollars off on the spot storewide! and, unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. get up to $20 off with no exclusions! we make it affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. with jcp cash, earn 10, 15 or 20 dollars off on the spot storewide! and, unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. get up to $20 off with no exclusions! we make it affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. >>> it was supposed to happen today but lawmakers have yet to vote on governor brown's budget plan. cuts in education and tax extensions are on the line. joe vazquez is in sacramento with what's holding up the vote. joe >> reporter: right now a lot of

benefit from the programmer for their friends and we partner with the san francisco housing authority, school districts and a wide variety of non-profit agencies to refer young people to our program. it is a part of the youth employment training program. there is anywhere from between 10 to 30 young people who go to the program on a regular basis. for this particular contract, we are also subcontracting with walton street youth services. they provide five young people ages 16-17 who are also part of the program as well. supervisor kim: out of curiosity, who do you work with at the school? >> quite a few different high- school. we can go out and make presentations to those schools to see if people want to go ahead and come to the conservation corps. we do citywide recruitment. supervisor kim: so it is citywide? do you work with the superintendent of high-school? supervisor chu: thank you. why don't we open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public would like to speak to item number five? >> i would like to speak on behalf of the garden project and take this opportunity to say thank you to ever

san francisco. southbound 101 wide open for your drive to doyle drive. 5:31. back to the desk. >>> nuclear power employees in japan are working around the clock right now. they're trying to prevent a catastrophic meltdown. our reporter martin savage live in tokyo monitoring this story and other late breaking developments in this unprecedented crisis. martin. >> reporter: morning, dave. many are wondering tonight is it determination or desperation? japan today launched a series of efforts to try to prevent an all out nuclear disaster at the damaged nuclear facility. unfortunately tonight it does not appear that they're working. japanese forces took to the air thursday using helicopters to dump sea water on reactor number three in the latest attempt to try and cool the damaged reactors at the nuclear plant and bring radiation levels down. but experts believe steam rising from the pools may actually be releasing radiation into the atmosphere. since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast japan, officials have been working to resolve cooling pr

san francisco. they listened to having a wide sidewalk on noe street and a facility that encourages walking to public transit, which personally i feel very strong about. as an individual in the neighborhood, i encourage you to support the rebuild plan cpmc has presented to you. thank you. >> the next speaker after this will be michael daniels and marc anthony. >> good evening. thank you, members of the health and planning commissions. my name is dr. sam michaels. i appreciate this opportunity to address you. over my 18 years at st. luke's, staff leadership positions, including chair of anesthesia, chief of the medical staff, and medical director of the st. luke's campus. as an emissary envoys of the physicians of saint luke, i wish to acknowledge and thank cpmc and the city of san francisco for saving some lives. the blue-ribbon panel achieve by and from all interested parties, medical, political, community, and a remarkable result. over the last two years, the department chairs have been working with architects and planners on our new facility. the medical staff from a supports the proposed plans. a