director: a benefit corporation regardless if you are in town or out of town, whether you are in san francisco-based company or not in san francisco-based company. if you are a certified lbe, and you are also a benefit corporation, then you get an additional 2% added to your bid discount. commissioner dwight: so it would be 10% plus 2%, and you would be competing -- but that is just in the same way, it has -- i do not know the right term for it, but it has the same effect that we just talked about. you can only get two extra points for being and local, and you can get eight extra points and narrow the gap for what would be two if you're an outsider, versus 12, to making it 8% versus 12, so that is a huge difference. just the way it is written. commissioner yee riley: if i qualify for both, i should get 18%. commissioner dwight: no, no, because i am not going to recommend 8%. i am going to recommend that what is given, that that same it 2% be given, whether it is 2%, 4%, i think we want to maintain the differential. this is competing against a non local, non-b corporation. >> we came up with 8%, just

respondents -- >> so, back in 2009, respondents that we got that were the most successful were san francisco- based micro-lenders. the others are not san francisco-based, nor do they have the capacity or expertise to a minister as well. as you heard from emily, they provide technical assistance and do the entire loan lending process from beginning to end with processes that are multi- lingual to provide the service. the other recipients that we got did not have that component. supervisor chu: has the universe changed, since 2009, when we went out for rflp? >> when we administered the community development block grants, we did do an rflp for lending. the universe has not changed in having a san francisco-based organization. we have others that provide loan packaging and technical assistance to businesses and organizations like working solutions and the opportunity fund across the bay area. a follow-up -- supervisor chu: a follow-up to that question, when was that rfp done? >> we do one annually with access to capital and commercial corridor programs. we do this annually. the last one was due on janu

director: a benefit corporation regardless if you are in town or out of town, whether you are in san francisco-based company or not in san francisco-based company. if you are a certified lbe, and you are also a benefit corporation, then you get an additional 2% added to your bid discount. commissioner dwight: so it would be 10% plus 2%, and you would be competing -- but that is just in the same way, it

director: a benefit corporation regardless if you are in town or out of town, whether you are in san francisco-based company or not in san francisco-based company. if you are a certified lbe, and you are also a benefit corporation, then you get an additional 2% added to your bid discount. commissioner dwight: so it would be 10% plus 2%, and you would be competing -- but that is just in the same way, it has -- i do not know the right term for it, but it has the same effect that we just talked about. you can only get two extra points for being and local, and you can get eight extra points and narrow the gap for what would be two if you're an outsider, versus 12, to making it 8% versus 12, so that is a huge difference.

the hiv/aids provider network is a coalition of over 30 san francisco-based nonprofits that provide a comprehensive array of services daily to people living with hiv and aids. today is a good day for san francisco, and let me tell you why. in december when the service provider community found out about this loss of funding of over $4 million, we truly were in a state of shock, but we knew what was at stake. so we quickly got to work meeting with barbara garcia at the department of public health, supervisors campos and wiener and the mayor to figure out what solution we could put to these devastating cuts, and i am pleased to report that all of them were keenly aware -- hold on one second. i am pleased to report that all of them were keenly aware of these devastating cuts long before we met face to face, so we gather here today to thank and acknowledge mayor lee, supervisors wiener campos and olague for their receptive ear and nimble response to our request for support to help mitigate these devastating cuts. mayor lee and the supervisors joint request for supplemental appropriation of

the setting of the price range of means the san francisco-based company is close to its idea. the process began stock futures have been flat this morning. dow futures are of 38. we will bring you the opening bell on wall street coming up. >>darya: right now we're going to take a look at the weather and how the morning is added. >>erica: check out this morning. 30's and 40's. fairfield recently dropped down to just 36 degrees. you will certainly want to bundle up however we are looking towards mild conditions in places like san francisco in redwood city. the mix of sun and clouds. there will be cooler than after antioch. i did want to turn our attention to future cast. we do have the potential for wet weather activity as we head into the evening hours. we could see some showers tonight stretching into tomorrow but for sunday stretching into monday. rain chances look to be a 20 percent chance of rain with temperatures in the upper 50s. check out next week tuesday, wednesday and thursday. >>george: we're still looking at a pretty good ride. no hot spots or delays. new metering li

san francisco based construction giant urs has offered a 1.25 billion in cash to buy flint energy services. >>> a new survey finds consumer satisfaction improved slightly last year. specialty stores such as office supply, home goods and clothing retailers scored the highest marks. but online retailers brick out brick and mortars in overall satisfaction with amazon.com taking the top spot. finally, home builders beware. a michigan court has ordered a couple to demolish all or part of their million dollar home because the structure was built 80 feet from the neighbor's property instead of the qiredred 100. >>> coming up, the a's make a surprise edition and the results are different this time around as the nets get another shot at the knicks and their harvard sensation. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> typically, i'd be telling you how to get a break from our harsh winter. it will feel like spring but that's how it's been all went, hasn't it? your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today."

lawyers asking the san francisco based ninth circuit court to rehear the case. a three-judge panel rule that had the voter-approved van ban violates civil rights of gays and lesbians, it means the marriages will stay on hold. >> and coming up a look at the best act year contenders as countdown to oscars heats up a major rental car company changes course. the safety regulation they now want the government to pursue. >> and then from 7 on your side, michael finney has a web site that helps you shop for the best auto insureance rate its about to get warm to make you wonder fits winter. i have near 80 degree temperatures coming up. the news continues in one minute. >>> authorities stepping up efforts to catch vandal that's caused nearly a million damage of damage to a school. today east bay congressman george miller toured the damage and pledged another $500 from his nonprofit youth fund. >> we think it's very important that we find out who acted in this manager against the children of the community and against the richmond community. >> vandals went on a destructio

they will donate $2800 to the san francisco based breast cancer fund. meanwhile california seven komen afelluates have denounced the national decision. >>> we're asking you our viewers on facebook this morning what you think about the decision by the susan g. komen foundation. walter writes, it's their money. they should do whatever they want with it. send us a message to our ktvu channel 2 morning news team on facebook and we will share some of the comments coming up in the next hour. >>> right now it's 4:37. in just about an hour the labor department will announce the january jobs report. most economists expect the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 8.5% but they also forecast a slight increase in the numbers of jobs created last month. it's especially difficult to predict what the numbers will show because the government does not do a particularly good job of accounting for seasonal hiring during the holidays. >>> today president obama will unvail a new jobs program specifically for military veterans. the veterans jobs corp will be based on the

just to give a couple quick overviews of what some of these companies are, the san francisco-based credit card processing competed against the paypals of the world, adding focused doing good in the social and environmental sense as well as making a profit. they were one of the original certified corporations and became a benefit corporation on the third of january. over 40% of their expenditures are directed toward local suppliers. over 10% of their profits go back to charitable organizations, so they are doing a lot of interesting things beyond providing a great service and competing with some of the bigger companies out there. one more example for you here was to give something back. a long history of doing great things and moving beyond the model to have have had really good office supplies services across the area. his motivation for becoming a benefit corporation was that he knows he will be scaling at some point in the think this says it all. looking at this from an investor perspective, how does he get the trust that will maintain that mission? a lot of times in your original share

in terms of not trying to give direction, but making sure the consideration for the non lbe san francisco- based businesses, then that is thought of. commissioner dwight: you can be local and the an lbe without being incorporated. you cannot meet the definition of b without being unincorporated. we actually do not have a situation where you can be, let's say, if you are going to be local and b, you must change your corporate status, if you are not already a california corporation. as currently defined lbe to go and get blessed as meeting the b standards. they literally have to become a california benefit corp., which means they have to change their status if they are not incorporated, that is an important distinction. commissioner: for me, that is like a lower amount. president of brian: can we put it like this, that the minimum benefit should be 2%, and the maximum benefit should be no more than 6%, because that takes into account the distortion concern, and i would ask, and also to -- what is the word i'm looking for, the comptroller's office, to try to discount the extra fees for doing busine

the uses san francisco-based company that has operated within the city for generations to manufacture its reusable canvas bags. the department has also identified a local business market that sells a wide variety of bags that need to ordnance definitions of a reasonable bag. i am pleased to share that a number of other california cities and counties have more than doubled to 38 that have similar legislation. this includes all of alameda county, who voted two weeks ago, while others just had their ordnance go into effect. the passage of this legislation is a crucial next step in ensuring our responsibility, as well as our commitment to zero waste goals by 2020, and in expanding the local economy. time for san francisco to catch up and continue to show environmental leadership. i urge a yes vote today. thank you. supervisor chiu: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: with this legislation first came up last year, i had some serious concerns about it. others of my colleagues did as well, regarding the impact on small business, lower income people, etc. at that point, it was very tempting

done early in the decade about the possibilities and how to rollout fiber optic broadband in san francisco. based on the conversation i had with mr. wolf and based on what a lot of us have been observing with corporations really moving hard in this last year to get control of the internet from various corporate angles, i do not think -- i know i have been kind of quarterly bringing this up, but i think it is time for us to start really hitting this again. i do not think we can wait much longer. i would urge you to agendize this session so we could talk about the possibility of fiber optic broadband as a public system so we no longer have to deal with just getting our service from comcast and at&t, which, from personal experience, has been held for me. i am sure some of you have probably had problems with those sort of duopoly carriers as well. there will be a key component with how we build howcca and -- how we build out cca and smart birds. i think it is time for lafco to take this on. -- smart grids. commissioner campos: any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will c

san francisco based construction giant urs has offered a 1.25 billion in cash to buy flint energy services>>> a new survey finds consumer satisfaction improved slightly last year. specialty stores such as office supply, home goods and clothing retailers scored the highest marks. but online retailers beat out brick and mortars in overall satisfaction with amazon.com taking the top spot. finally, home builders beware. a michigan court has ordered a couple to demolish all or part of their million dollar home because the structure was built 80 feet from the neighbor's property instead of the required 100. >>> coming up, the as make a surprise edition and the huskies in overtime. and the results are different this time as the nets get another shot at the knicks. your first look at sports is straight ahead. -one. -two. -three. -one. two. three. one. -two. -three. -one. -two. -three. [ male announcer ] with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% back on groceries. and 3% back on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. -it's as easy as...1. -

the most recent excitement came just a few months ago from san francisco-based zinga. zinga's games play a big part in facebook. the game maker failed reach expectations and is trading at the same price when it went public. tesla has not turned a profit since the 2010 ipo but trading $12 a share more than its initial offerings. nothing comes close to google's success which debuted in 2004. if you bought it at that point, 85 bucks a share. today it closed at $582 per share. >>> now from what facebook's success means to the bay area to an exclusive tour at their new digs in menlo park, find all things facebook on nbcbayarea.com. >>> a possible new lead in the disappearance of a 9-year-old hayward girl kidnapped 23 years ago. a convicted killer at san quentin says he knows information that could lead investigators to the girl's body. nbc bay area's kris sanchez joins us live from hayward with more. kris, do investigators and family members believe he's telling the truth? >> reporter: you know, i talked to michaela garecht's mother this afternoon. she steadfastly refuses t

san francisco based visa said the quarterly profit jumped 16% as the quarterly numbers increased in the united states and abroad. the visa card use rose 10% driven by increased spending. stocks finishing slightly higher today in an up and down day on wall street, the dow gaining 5 points, closing at 12,000, the nasdaq up nearly 12 points. >>> and catching a break, the new plan to make california universities more affordable for some students. >>> also live pictures from news chopper 2 over the scene of an officer-involved shooting. what we're learning when we come back. >>> and tracking that nasty valley fog that showed up this morning, and will return tomorrow morning. i'll show you the spot that could be the hardest to drive through . >>> more now on the developing news from castro valley, what you see here is the scene of a shooting involving an officer from some department here in the bay area, not clear which department the officer was involved with. but what happened is a man at this intersection of grove and center in count throw valley, not far from 580 was shot. earlier, news c

initiative is just one of many priorities jared blumenfeld juggles as administrator of the san francisco-based pacific southwest region of the environmental protection agency. your boss lisa jackson, top administrator at epa, was in town recently. the two of you were touring a company that makes components for electric vehicles. and talking about green jobs. this seems to be kind of a full court press since the state of the union message to get out there and show that the epa is a jobs-generating machine as well as one that protects the environment. is that just come with the territory now? >> where we are as a nation right now is at a time where we need jobs desperately and we see the economy is growing slowly. also a time where we need environmental protection. so those two things do naturally come together. and the bay area, california, the west generally is a great place to be able to point to businesses like mission motors and you can say they've gone from 40 employees today to 80 employees tomorrow as a result of standards that the epa has come out with that require engines to be cleaner

. >> she is a san francisco based mortgage broker. >> he lender decides how they're going to give youate based on your equity in your property, if your income is good and if your credit score is good. >> okay. let's start with equity. if you bought your home before the downturn, your interest rate is probably 6% or above. our example will be a median priced home in san francisco, which now goes for $650,000. if you have 20% equity, your loan amount is $520,000, and the monthly mortgage payment is around 3,117. a fairly simple refinanced a 5% today, and your monthly drops to 2,791 tuesday. nice but just the beginning. for instance, has your credit score been hurt by the down economy? >> five to ten point difference in your credit score could mean thousands of dollars. >> the usual advice is to pay down your credit cards, but there's an easier way. increase your credit limit. the credit score problem isn't with how much you owe but with how much you owe versus available credit. >> call your credit card companies and ask for higher credit limits. get your usage below 30%, and you could b

. >> serena green is a san francisco-based mortgage broker. >> lender decides how they're going to giveyou a rate based on your equity inappropriate, if you're income is good and credit score is good. >> okay. let's start with equity. if you bought before the down turn, your interest rate is probably 6% or above. our example will be a median priced home now going for $650,000. if you have 20% equity, your loan amount is 520,000s skpdz the monthly payment is around $3117. a fairly simple refinance at 5% today and your monthly drops to $2791. nice, but just the beginning. for instance, has your credit score been hurt by the downed economy? >> it dropped 10 points could mean thousands of dollars. >> the usual advice is pay down your credit cards. but there is an easier way. increase your credit limit. the score problem isn't with how much you owe but how much you owe versus available credit. call your card companies and ask for higher limits. give your usage below 30% and you can be looking at another half point rate drop. now, your payment is $2634. now, most know 20% gets i a loan. but h

. >> he is president of the san francisco based plow shares fund is talking about the most northern ofsidered to be iran's key nuclear facilities. >> iran son track to finish that by sometime in the end of june. that is when israel says time's up. >> if attacked iran says it will close the administrates and shut off supply of middle eastern oil. but one expert says iran is also sending out a second message. >> that they're not backing down and they're indicating willingness to negotiate. >> he says it's in line with the way iran has behaved in the past. acquire a message to the west. >> they realize they cannot afford an oil and gas embargo against us, so it's clearly sending signals they want to dwosh negotiate. >> he says iran expressed a willingness to negotiate with members of the european union and united states and both say there is no military option that would stop iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon you just hope there is no spark that sets it off. >> tomorrow night abc's "night line" will take a look inside of the embattled chinese factories were apple products are assembled