that is what makes it such a very special city. ndicated, we are meeting some challenges now, facing ourselves, with reference to conduct our people, but be advised -- we will get through this, as we have gotten through everything in this city, and we will only be better for having done so. so we will do so in the manner in which we always have. [applause] thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> as the evening goes on, we will hear from supervisors chiu, chu, and mar. i would like to invite our public defender up to share a few words with us. jeff. [applause] >> thank you very much. good evening, everyone. tonight, we celebrate our individual and collective histories, our culture, our language, and our art. there is an old saying -- we can not only live for ourselves, one that and fibers connect all of us to our fellow human beings. that is not true of only asian cultures. when i grew up, it was japanese against chinese against koreans. we did not even know why we were fighting. it was because that was what we learned grow

like so many other nights in this great city, tonight is special. not just because of the award being received, which honors otter this from generations who have made this city great and have been made great by the city. no city invites the hard to soar like san francisco does. and renowned san francisco and may have set a better when she said the some of them -- synonym for san francisco is inspiration. most people think that cities inspire leaders and leaders inspire cities, but i would like to add that artists inspired cities and cities inspire artists. who knows which in print -- which inspiration comes first? it does not really matter, what matters is that happens. right here in our city, generation after generation. we are proud to participate tonight in the recognition of one of music's greatest artists. to continue to fulfill the pledge from one year ago to expand the coverage of the arts and support arts in our community. we want to thank you for allowing us to move out on this rewarding mission, thanking you for the opportunity to serve ton

resolution was introduced by mayor newsom and south korea duffy and with the issuance of a special tax bond for city impact fees and also approve the form of joint community facilities agreement and grant authority to city officials to implement that. so. i go through the department's analysis and recommendations, i would like to introduce michael ya yarney who will describe the intention behind the resolution and more of the specifics and technicalitieses about how the two districts would work. >> thank you.

a city that appropriated, a city where carlos was able to grow up, because his parents knew that there was something special about this city. allowing him to further his education, continuing a proud tradition that was instilled in him by a -- as a young boy. that was the stewardship an example of his parents and father in particular in terms of his artistic talents that he advanced and nurtured, promoting with his children. we have all been the beneficiary of that legacy. our lives have been elevated and improved. we all talk about the end of the day and what it is all about. we all have unique stories that make up our lives. the idea is for each one of us to add value to other people's lives, helping them make their story just a little bit better. we have all had experiences where we have been elevated, our lives have been approved because of the challenge and fashion from the remarkable action of people like carlos. with that spirit and a tremendous amount of pride, i come here tonight to recognize one of our own. to recognize someone who has been recognized so many times, appropriately so. someone who i

i'm delighted to be here with mayor newsome, who takes such special pride in this city shall this greataspect of it, its beauty, its history and its future and i thank him and senator feinstein, another former mayor, for being honorary co-chairs of this event and making it such a success. and i want to thank the chairman of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin, for being here as well. it's great to be with you, aaron and state senator leno who is with us as well. so many distinguished leaders in our community. it's also great to be here with ken nelly, who is so responsible for making today important. and ann hallstead. you probably think i'm going to name every single person who is here. it probably feels that way. i want to just acknowledge jarrod. the acting head of the parks and rec who guarantees that all this will be as beautiful as ever. but let me tell you on a personal basis what coit tower means to me and special gratitude to the coit family here today the coit tower when i am in san francisco, and it's not as much as i would like to be, is the firstsite -- first sight i see

various city hall offices and most cities special events. they prepare special cultivation for the shakespearean garden. the materials can range from large to 1 gallon shrubs. and george has developed a very special oil mix. they have renovated the irrigation system. the nursery has a whole group of their own volunteers and worse of volunteer groups. our botanical garden and director says the work of his crew as being an outstanding providing the tools for all exhibits. they've let also been using plants which are water smart. the nursery was awarded the group award. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> a couple more items and then we will be done. this morning and last wednesday, i joined our patrol on extended early patrol of gordon -- -- golden gate park. we had two very unfortunate incidents in the first week of july and we have work to do. over the last three years, in partnership with the department of public health, the recreation department and the san francisco police department, we are accounted every morning making contact with ill

various city hall offices and most cities special events.prepare special cultivation for the shakespearean garden. the materials can range from large to 1 gallon shrubs. and george has developed a very special oil mix. they have renovated the irrigation system. the nursery has a whole group of their own volunteers and worse of volunteer groups. our botanical garden and director says the work of his crew as being an outstanding providing the tools for all exhibits. they've let also been using plants which are water smart. the nursery was awarded the group award. thank you. [applause]

the city receives the money when they are due today and even though there is a special tax district and all this stuff, the check, $2 million, $3 million, that check is paid the same time it would under any other approach. if it isn't paid, they can't move into the building. i want to be really clear this doesn't defer feeses beyond the fee deferral program already refers them to. and this is another method for paying fee on time. i would like to quickly address some of our issues in the case record. the first was, and i believe that the city attorney might be here. and if he can answer the specific legal questions if you have any on the project. the question was raised about whether all the impact fees could be funded by the melaruse and the specifically child care and administration and mon the organize of the programs were called out as concerns. we have confirmed that child care the way it's currently administered, this is the downtown child care impact fee, would li

every planning process in this city faces certain special interest groups who are investing in maintaining the status quo. however, the city must make bold steps in order to insure our waterfront's viability and success, and this study does just that. at the end of the day, the study supports with the city searches for, a template for creation of extraordinary experiences at the city's waterfront, tempered by guidelines regarding site design, building management, and pedestrian access. thank you for your time. commissioner fong: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is roger wong. i'm a resident of san francisco for over 35 years. i'm an architect mo and architect mss wong associates practicing here along the waterfront. i work here, i work on products here, and on weekends, i bring my family here. first of all, i would like to say that this district is like no other. the ferry building, the embarcadero, the, not, the fort walks, and these are all true public access and to open space for all of san francisco. on any given day, especially weakens, the district is enjoyed by a d

resolution was introduced by mayor newsom and south korea duffy and with the issuance of a special tax bond for city impact fees and also approve the form of joint community facilities agreement and grant authority to city officials to implement that. so. i go through the department's analysis and recommendations, i would like to introduce michael ya yarney who will describe the intention behind the resolution and more of the specifics and technicalitieses about how the two districts would work. >> thank you. michael yarney, happy to be here this afternoon. and as anmarie mentioned, there are two separate resolutions and i would address the area plan infrastructure commission first and then address the citywide c.f.d. resolution second. i do want to elaborate a little bit on the reasons we're having the resolution forming this committee. the area plan infrastructure finance committee or the apif. there was a previous committee you may remember the eastern neighborhoods structure finance group which was created to specifically come up with recommendations for ideas to finance the significant deficit

located near seattle, washington and there is no way of knowing if he is going to be at the special bell city council meeting where the five members are going to consider firing him, making him resign, along with his assistant, and the chief of police. >> everybody, everybody resign because they have lost the trust with the community. >> reporter: no city manager assistant or police chief in america makes this kind of money. why here? >> a charter is permission to run your city separate from the general state laws of california. >> reporter: and with rizzo pushing the idea and the bell voters approving it, bell became a charter city in 2003. state assembly hector de la torre whose area includes bell says there is nothing illegal that rizzo and his associates have done and the city council has few options. >> they can't go to the city manager and assistant city manager and police chief and say you're fired, you make too much money, give it back. they cannot. >> reporter: with the power of a charter city, bell has one of the higher tax rates in any city in southern california. and every month,

is more significant is that this city is going to stage a san francisco place at the world expo in shanghai. that is an expression of profound friendship and strong special bonds between our two cities, and it will surely give new impetus to the friendship and cooperation between our two cities. this sculpture will stay here for a period of time. i think it will help local people to understand china, understand chinese history, chinese culture and the chinese philosophy of harmony. it will remind us to work hard to promote our mutual understanding and caption. i am confident with our joint efforts, we will surely make the san francisco exhibit a highlight at the world expo in shanghai, but also we will make san francisco the best gateway to china, a pioneer in the development of u.s.-china relations. shrank thank -- thank you. >> he spoke to the context of what we are here, also putting that in context is the head of the sister city committee as well as your bart board member, james. >> thank you, b.j. we are very delighted to be part of this fantastic physical monument to the cooperation between the cities of san francisco and shanghai. as has been ment

that the city would enforce all of its legal rights under the common law, and that is why i am making that motion, that the approval is contingent upon a non waiver of monetary damages, special damages, punitive damages, or any other claim that the city may have vis a vis the developer. president chiu: supervisor campos has made a motion with regard to the damages. do you have language? i think that would be great. i think there are some questions around punitive damages versus incremental damages. we want to be korea wrote -- clear on those. i have a couple of amendments to make. thank you, colleagues. i want to thank you for the many, many meetings we have had on this. as i have said before, i have probably were totter on this project than anything else here at city hall, and i also want to thank the many members of the public for the many years that you've worked on this. you have worked on this far, far longer than many of us on the board, with the exception of supervisor maxwell, and, supervisor maxwell, want to thank you for your leadership. i made a number of amendments. from my perspective, we have a solid thing in front of us, in my intention was to make it better.

buildings, we're in and of the city and i said maybe there is a special mission for the city and theversity to get -- and then we began tong of extrapolating that out into the world and that's where ultimately this notion the world network university came together and if you will just indulge me for a second -- the premise of that is that the world of 2050 is going to be a world which on a global scale looks like it will be looked -- like italy looked like during the renaissance where the creative and the intelligent and the talented class moves among not -- not milan, and venice, and florence, and rome, but shanghai and abu dhabi and london and new york -- what richard florida, who i have now read -- this came to me kind of instinctively -- >> charlie: writes about the city. >> writes about the idea capitals and i said, really, there will be a disproportionately high share of the most talented faculty. and students, and staff who want to live in a university which isn't location-bound although it's -- it is deeply bound into the world's most cosmopolitan city, the world in miniature

the mayor is asking city council to put a measure on the ballot called the down park and jobs measure. campaign would be fully paid by the a's owner. meanwhile, a special appointed 16 months ago is still sticked the option of moving. the league is not likely to get into the issue without ironclad assurance the city's plan could go forward. they propose they are using 14 acres of land to build a new ballpark and create hundreds of jobs. the owner has agreed to pay $461 million for the ballpark and maintenance while the city would pay millions nor infrastructure around it. city council has until august 3rd to decide whether to put a ballpark measure on the november ballot. >>> final check on weather and traffic. >> we do have a little bit of fog once again, not neither as extensive. readings will be in the 50s and then by noon today, we're looking at readings in the 60s and 70s. we'll start to see mid to upper 80s by the end of the day. much warmer weather and that is going to last all the way through the weekend. here a look ahead, wonderful warm spring summer like temperatures. >> there is a motorcycle crash 101 at 880. no injuries, they are going to c

i got legislation moved through the board where we will hire a special events coordinator for the city to create a new halloween around the city. >> anything that helps curb the violence in the castro is a good thing. its unfortunate but its reality. >> district 8 is home to rich and poor. drivers and bicyclists and pedestrians. gays and straights and families and swinging singles. the district will face new challenges as the city grows and changes. thanks to the residents commitment to working things out district 8 will survive and thrive. for sfg tv i'm jennifer low and as always, thanks for watching. >> good evening, everyone i'm delight to be here to welcome you to the conversation with lalita tademy and scott shafer. lalita was born in southern california. and their home louisiana west maintained a noncalifornia edge. she's always been interested in her family stories especially ones about here great grand mother emily who died with a life savings hidden in her mattress. lalita level her position at sun miko systems to seresearch her family. she had no choice but to write about th

there are ten special assessment districts already in the city. many mission district residents think the idea is a good one. >> when you have a block that looks nicer, i think when people walk through the block, then they'll, it just kind of rubs off on people and they'll take care to keep the block nicer too. >> reporter: this block has taken in about $85,000 in taxes over the last year. different districts identify different priorities. some offered to pay for security guards, plants or even marketing plants. sal castaneda, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> american consumers are becoming even more pessimistic about the economy. the look in july rose by nearly four points to 50.4. the decline followed last month's dramatic drop of 10 points. >>> news of declining consumer confidence caused a mixed day of trading on wall street. the dow jones industrial average closed up 12 points. however the nasdaq closed the day down. >>> a 9-year-old boy on his way from sfo to his mother's house in canada is left stranded for hours in an airport. find out what united

we will give him special due recognition and thank him and the city of san francisco.et's do that now. a nice big round of applause. for mayor gavin newsom. city council. and all of the programs and departments of this beautiful city government. thank you. this time i'm going to call qwona to the stand with me. we're going to recognize someone that is well deserving and long overdue for recognition. it's my pleasure to introduce our first honoree, lehman brightman. i've known lehman since i first arrived in san francisco in 1962. if fact, he got me my first shore side job when he was a director at the san francisco indian center. and he is a very upstanding individual, he's a member of the sioux and creek tribes. he was born on the cheyenne river sioux reservation in south dakota. he's the father three boys, lehman jr., gall and qwona here with me. he currently lives in pinot, california. he's the founder of the national president of the united founder and president of the national united native americans incorporated, a nonprofit indian organization formed in 1968 to

and then baseball says it would even help pay if they did that far special election. a city council committee will talk about the future of that november vote coming up this afternoon. >>> it looks like lighting up in california is becoming a drag. a new report from tax collectors says cigarette taxes are up, but the number of packs sold in the state is down. californians bought 2.8 billion packs a year in 1980. now only 972 million are sold. between 2009 and 2010, californians bought 8.1% less cigarettes than the year before. experts say health concerns, smoking restrictions, and taxes are leading to the decrease in cigarette sales. the average pack cost $3.66 in 2000. now it's $5.09. >>> venetian could soon be home to a solar-powered city hall. city council is considering adding solar-powered carports behind the building. one of nine solar projects the city is voting on. construction could start in november and end next spring. federal stimulus funds and a partnership with chevron will foot the bill, so there's no cost to the city. the solar projects could save the city ul

hamas has found when smoking water pipes in public in gaza with special plainclothes agents roaming the city and beaches don't see it so. the pipes have grown in popularity after hamas out no alcohol and taking control in two thousand and seven pressure from powerful radical islamic groups to be behind the. illegal in the islamic north of women to smoke as many to openly as some see it as a cultural taboo with the varying interpretations across the muslim world the first soviet times when else and american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission all celebrating the flight such affairs that the vestry they so use apollo project a new era of cooperation between the two superpower rivals trying thomas has been following the celebrations at moscow's space museum. it is a been a day of ceremony and celebration in old friends getting together and reminiscing about their time that they shared in space thirty five years ago the four remaining survivors of the actual event itself the apollo soyuz mission came here to the space museum where they were greeted by a band they got a tour

major league baseball told reed it would help pay for a special election in the spring. some city leaders say it's a good sign. >> we've been wandering in the desert now for 16 months, looking for some indication that major league baseball was willing to allow the athletics to move, but we now at least know where the lemonade stand is and major league baseball is offering to help pay for some of it. >> the president is asking for a delay so a committee will be allowed to, quote, finish its work before voting on the issue. and that committee will meet this afternoon. >>> the fbi says it has caught the hacker that they believe infected 12 million computers with a virus. a 23-year-old man from slovenia is now in custody. authorities believe he's also part of a larger cybercrime ring responsible for stealing credit cards and online banking information. >>> need to shed some pounds? well, there's an app for that. all it takes is the tap of a finger. nbc bay area's scott budman shows us you can limber up with a high-tech twist. >> reporter: there are nearly 6 hourkz health and fitness a

i live in the countryside and try to go to the city only for three last three day came and now i feel bad i have to take special medicine to be able to breathe in the city it's not just the heat has also been a big bellow small guy around moscow today now that came from peace some bloke fires that were burning on the outskirts of the city the emergency ministry said there's be sixty such fires today in the last twenty four hours and that's covered area of over seventy hectares or thirty football pitches all protections that temperatures could reach into the forty degree celsius towards the end of the week so there may not be any rest by store and that's also been just to add to the woes of of people living in moscow. it could potentially be tornadoes on the outskirts of moscow region so tropical conditions really all we know and even doc has been warning that because of the lack of oxygen in the yeah there is a necessary caution that if you're at home to. get the white house and put them over windows to increase the option levels in the house. israel's defense minister is visiting washington to talk to u.s. off

special meeting. >>> oakland's police chief is turning to the federal government for help in dealing with violent crime in the city. chief anthony batts says he will meet next month with the u.s. attorney general's office and the fbi. after 80 officers were laid off lasting with, he's had to put investigators in patrol cars. so he's asking for the federal government's help to assist

what i think is commensurate with what makes san francisco so special, which is why make references to push buttons, but we are a world famous city, but also rather small in a way that makes us accessible and special. geographically because of 47.5 miles, but also because of how unique our individual district supervisors are. and that merits sensitivity and tailoring of a public safety strategy, and i do believe in this iteration they also want to see it come to fruition. but if they are not there, we are reminded of what remains. the good will could remain. the archival information as to how to get it done. but even with current efforts underway, if you take off and put it in some other neighborhood and place it with somebody who does not have that level of institutional or neighborhood knowledge in that area, it only shows why the wholes are that much deeper. if you look at it as a pie in 10 slices, maybe 1 slice is foot patrols. there are so many other elements, and i think the system chief is speaking to that. i just want to put it into a place where we are unified in our commitment. treating this as someplace that might be c

breath because i live in the countryside and try to go to the city only if it's really necessary to day came and now i feel bad i have to take special medicine to be able to breathe in the city people have been literally tortured by over thirty degrees says says temperatures since may june seventh temperature records have already been registered in russia within the last two months. maria phenomena they're reporting it's about a quarter past the hour now here in the russian capital you are with odds he and it's been ten years since the international space station became suitable for crews to both live and work upon new russian and american life support systems also meant more research could be carried out at the i assess that sean thomas went to witness some of the wonders of space engineering. it circles the globe about three hundred fifty kilometers from the earth's surface it is the largest construction in space it is a marvel of modern engineering which is approaching a crucial milestone moment christmas christan for the i.s.a.'s is a major contemporary space project it has a huge mass of around three hundred eighty tons it invo

dow appropriate, founded in this city that understood it was right and appropriate to celebrate artistic differences, understanding that that is what makes this a special place. for that matter, it makes california and to this country of ours a special place, a remarkable capacity to live together, prospered together across every conceivable difference. at the end of the day at our best is our capacity for uniting around our common humanity. in so many ways today we are

breath through i live in the countryside and try to go to the city only it's really necessary today came and now i feel bad i have to take special medicine to be able to breath and the city the consequence is all. this record paid way for russia is now facing was bad and rather serious people have been literally pulled should by over thirty degrees so says temperatures since may june was seven temperature records have already been registered in russia within the last thirty two months and people are suffering most of them were forced to move closer to. the fevers and pools and that has appraise the number of troubling dust but these heat has brought caution brought with it their wars in century which has destroyed and damaged tens of millions of crops in the country so rush is now risking not getting any hard as they see their worst news so here is that this hit way will only intensify during the next week and these are all just say that it's put even greater up to forty degrees says is. now reporting that now it's ten years since the international space station became suitable for crews to both live and work new russian and ame