spreadsheet. at some point, that has to happen. this is an incredibly rushed process for an item that is going to have the kind of impact and perhaps even greater impact than the hosting of an olympic games. this is an event that is going to have enormous impact on san francisco. some of them are going to be very good. some of them are going to be very bad. ultimately come up with a term sheet and a finding of fiscal feasibility and responsibility that we have to do pursuant to chapter 29 of the administrative code before the process can begin at the planning department, we have the responsibility to decide whether this is good for the city and county of san francisco. what i am noting is a net negative impact on the general fund just with the facts and figures i have been getting up until 10 minutes ago. there are huge questions as to stability of the america's cup, given how the last daughter went down. it went down in the courtrooms. any cannot just sell the tv rights to billionaires' lifti tig

that is what our spreadsheet looks like. supervisor daly: but my concern is when we make commitments to do this work. does the port have the money in their budget to do it? if not, who is going to pay for it? where does that money come from? alternately, the general fund is on the hook unless something happens and our port bonding kicks in. >> it is a cash flow problem that these revenues come in at one time and is not created until the event. $20 million in tax revenue would come in during the event. some of these costs are going to be incurred prior to that. we do have a cash flow problem we have to look at. we do want to come back to you and look at ways to solve that, whether it is cops or other ways. supervisor daly: i am fine with solving a cash flow problem. president chiu: how many more questions to you have? supervisor daly: a lot. president chiu: 5 colleagues have asked me to invoke a rule. i have not invoked the 10-minute rule before. if you would like to speak for an additional 10 minutes, we have several other c

i am just trying to get a spreadsheet, so i made one. you can borrow my electronic version and fixed it for me. >> we did the same analysis. i apologize. the numbers were there yesterday. they may not have been all in one place. it is similar to the analysis you did, supervisor. we took on the same thing and showed somewhat the opposite. there will be somewhere between $30 million and $60 million of net benefit. i think we agree the hotel sales payroll tax is somewhere between $19 million and $22 million. we think those numbers are conservative. we think hotel rates will go up. >> but in your term sheet there is the agreement that we will work with the business bureau to make sure that the lowest discounted hotel rates, the best convention rate specifically, are available. >> we recommend $19 million to $23 million for general fund increases. what i do not think is included in your spreadsheet is we are projecting the event of authority to have a negative value. supervisor daly: i know you do not hang out in budget and finance as much as

i am just trying to get a spreadsheet, so i made one. you can borrow my electronic version and fixed it for me. >> we did the same analysis. i apologize. the numbers were there yesterday. they may not have been all in one place. it is similar to the analysis you did, supervisor. we took on the same thing and

spreadsheets, a tabular form. it is not .pdf or word documents, and because of that, it is a machine readable, and that is an important part of it here you can create applications and analysis out of it. there is a lot you can do. open did it is also freely available to the public at no charge with very minimal restrictions. it also respects existing privacy and security laws that are in place, whether local, state, or federal, and it is really a proactive disclosure of government information. departments and agencies are for one actively putting structured machine-readable data out into the public. so why is open did it important? if improve transparency and accountability. journalists have access to more information. artists, technology community -- generally, anyone interested in government has structured information they can use for various reasons. it also stimulates economic development. we have seen a number of companies that have been substantiated both here locally and elsewhere. an example i would like t

i think it is important that maybe redo the spreadsheets for the presentations so that community benefits is not the democratic process is not under community benefits but how you reached community benefits and so there is a very aggressive process to go out and reach the entire community in public meetings is at the table so that nobody gets left out. i have one third and very important recommendation, which i have a feeling is not there yet. after being an organizer for about seven years in san francisco on city hall years, there is one glaring problem i have seen over and over again -- knowing that a budget is coming forward, knowing that if they work the process, they can get community benefits dollars for their own organization, and it makes it impossible for that good democratic communication to happen because some organizations are so aggressively pursuing their own interests. i would like to see in this a very specific set up so that whenever community benefits dollars are brought in, there is a will that is created for the entire -- a pool that is created for the entire enterpris

and first, if you come up with a spreadsheet.his is what you can afford, to be honest, up front. and know that there's nothing an attorney do that you cannot do, yourself. however, they do it, more often. >> thank you, rob black. for that. it e-mail at rob@robblack.com we will be right back. live from the bay area's news station this is kron 4 news at 4:30 >> decision 2010. just two weeks before election day. former alaska governor, sarah palin has a new tea party bossar

and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applications along the order of 2-1/2 times the funding that we have. like we will have 500 thousand dollars available to give out ask and we get 1.3 million dollars worth of applications. it's competitive. we are not hard and fast about breaking down the money between small, medium and large. we are pretty flexible. we like to look at good projects. we always try to fund one large project if it's a hundred thousand we may be might not fund 2 large projects. so, with that, i will quit and invite david and neil and joseph to talk about some of their projects and how they have looked at their neighborhoods and tried to figure out who the stake holders are that can be really activated to produce a lasting physical improvement in their neighborhoods. >> you want to go first? >> sure. >> everybody hear me i don't

i took the liberty to try to make my own spreadsheet. i am trying to figure this out. i have chaired the budget here for a couple of times, so i know how to use excel. i know how to open it up and put some numbers in. this is my guess for what is going on at our level for this bid. i could be wrong. i have not gotten answers to my questions. in terms of answers and non answers, america's cup has lots of questions and responses. questions were answered by the city attorney as to whether chapter 29 applies. it looks like it does, but perhaps not yet. we will have to make a finding at the board of supervisors before planning decides the ceqa application is complete. i assume that will be coming soon if this application passes. the planned $7 million of corporate sponsorship, we do not know. the $150 million in the structure they are asking -- is that included in the 270 figure or not? we do not know. will we be recent burst for staff times -- reimbursed for staff times of city employees? we believe it will be another $2 million for taxes and items in the term sheet, whic

i think i need a spreadsheet for the weekend, and then you just kind of have to plug in all the differenthings that are happening. >> we have the battle of the bay, post-season baseball. lauren is out there with the liberty bell and pat and geno's. the whole smorsasbord. the franchise versus doc. tim lincecum amazing. we are in philadelphia all weekend with the giants, and tonight lauren banke brings us the very latest. >> we are more than one day away from two anticipated events in philadelphia and baseball as a whole. we're waiting for the clash of tim lincecum and halladay. tim lincecum setting a giants playoff record with 14 k's in his two-hit shutout. this could be the most exciting pitching match-up we will see in the entire post-season, but not everybody is buying into the hype. >> it's wonderful to have those caliber players, but we're trying to win a ball game. we're not going to get caught up in the hoopla. >> you make a bet, so you look forward to the challenges. i'm sure there are guys looking forward to the challenges spcas much as we are. >> we're confident when anybody take

to figure out what is going on with the chinese auto market and four minutes later, you have a spreadsheet in your e-mail. >> if you ask alan greenspan, how did you miss the rapid rise of subprime mortgages? he tells this wonderful story about cindy numbers from a mortgage finance. it showed a big increase in 2006 in the number of subprime mortgages. we're talking about a guy -- he is a global in such kind of guy. he said that he did not believe the data. he said he did not think it was possible to have something increase that rapidly. what have the things that the policy makers have learned is that it is exactly when -- there are times when you really need to have the data to figure out if the story is not unfolding as you expected. a whole lesson learned from this episode, the whole business of supervision is to spend less time thinking about how we can trust the markets because the markets always do what is in their interest spread a little more time on looking at the data to make sure that allows for the possibility that these guys to run these big banks, they might not actually know w

i think it is important that maybe redo the spreadsheets for the presentations so that community benefits is not the democratic process is not under community benefits but how you reached community benefits and so there is a very aggressive process to go out and reach the entire community in public entire community in public meetings is at the table so that

i mean, it's what steve kohl calls the spreadsheet like documentation of this. gates says, well, i think we can start thinning out our forces in 18 to 24 months. obama seizes on that just grabs it and says okay we'll give you 18 months from this point and so just, 2001, we're going to begin thinning out. it's a way of saying i want out, it's a way of saying this is a limited investment, we're not doing ten years, we're not doing a trillion dollars. now, can i make your head hurt for a moment? >> rose: yes. >> there's another side to this... >> rose: wouldn't be the first time. >> and that is there is an alternative analysis that some people who reviewed the book and discussed it and said, well, obama has actually done quite well. he is... it's an ugly war that he engaged in it, he found a way to get everyone at the end-- which he did-- to sign up to this. now i think it's kind of acquiescence rather than a full embrace of his strategy. and he's going forward. and he asks the right questions, he pushes. there is a... i mean, this is a guy who is a great law profe

. >> just saw the number you were crunching, that spreadsheet we were able to receive where outside republicanoups have an 8-1 spending advantage over democratic outside groups. it's a huge advantage. some of the places where the democrats are competing are where democrats have a candidate who isn't as well financed as the republican one. in delaware for example christine o'donnell is getting a ton of money. chris coons needs help. similarly connecticut chris's home state where linda mcmahon has all of that money and dick blumenthal needs help from the national party. >> thanks for the cheap reference to my home state. anything i can get the connecticut thing out i appreciate it opinion. >> nobody brags about it. >> oh, man! $1.8 million american crossroads has spent. wild pen. $1.1 million in illinois. the other thing that isn't mentioned, chuck and savannah, $13 million in september being spent in coordinated money by the nrsc. they spent lots of money they can directly give to a candidate. that's not showing up in the independent expenditures. >> i have to ask you about this concept of putt

i always think you think finances, you think numbers on a spreadsheet or a monthly checking out statement is that a bad thing. >> it's a huge problem. i interviewed behavioral expe s expertsers economists, when we harbor negative feelings with money and about money, what that ultimately does is create a mind trap in your head so that we are unable to make healthy rational decisions. >> and the guy at the end there said that his relationship with money is influenced by the fact that he just lost a lot. but for most people it goes much further back, doesn't it? >> it's rooted in how we were raised. mom and dad played a huge role in our money relationship. i think it's how they fought over money or how they didn't talk about money, how they delayed their gratification our just showered you be gifts. >> and every major life adds a chapter to that money book, and we have just been through what for some people have been a terribly destructive chapter with this recession. >> absolutely, so money's an emotional mess, so whether we're in a ecession or not, we would still be having this conversatio

in this spreadsheet glitch, i accidentally pushed the biofuels into the demand side and let them out. i was trying to figure out why my numbers did not add up. two years, i would not have noticed as quickly. i think it is quite important. to the extent that we get a further announcement in the near term this is changing the macro picture a bit more quickly than i might have expected a few years ago. it is something that i am grappling with myself to account for properly. i believe that we have someone speaking on biofuels built later, so i believe more of that to them. >> a question on your discussion on the distancing of supplies. to what extent do you believe that that really increases potential risk of disruption? coupled with less inventory, which are relatively small component. there is more of a just in time the inventory philosophy apparent. now we are moving greater distances. what do you see it as the risk? >> there are two ways of looking at it. one is a diversification of suppliers is probably a positive thing for a market to function and reliability. in a sense, we have to

everybody gets their spreadsheets together, they all make good sense. we added a lot of people to the unemployment rolls -- to the employment rolls, all of these projections did not happen. i ended up with a huge best to sort through. reform will do the same thing. we have about 30 million people. those costs will come in on schedule. the savings may or may not be there. i already think we have huge cost issues coming down the road with these expansion issues, let alone the base. host: you write -- guest: part of what i was trying to help people in tennessee understand where we were on this -- people talk about health care in a vacuum. everyone is in favor of people having health insurance. we need to understand how much money is running through this. i used that in a speech to our legislature, and they responded, i am all for this idea, but it does not correspond to priorities that i would set for myself. we have a particular problem in tennessee. we are a bit better now, but we headed the list in terms of per- capita pharmacy spending. it just does no

he jumps into spreadsheets the way that we enjoy novels. host: what will you be watching for in the coming weeks in this race? >> early voting and the balloting has been going on for a couple of weeks. there is a good shot the race is already over. it is definitely not stopping the two campaigns from taking their shots at each other over the next few weeks. what i will be watching for is, do any new things develop, what is the get-out-the-vote effort for election day? will there be any late surprises? will they make a difference? >> you say that the race could already be over due to early voting. do you have any indication who is winning? >> not at all. both sides have their polls. both sides show a five-point, 7- point lead. i imagine, november 2, neither candidate will be going to bed early. >> thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. >> these candidates squared off in a debate recently. we will be airing it tonight at 11:00 p.m. for more information about 2010 races, code to our website, c- span.org. host: william cohen is with us. thank

and in the obama case, as is laid out in great spreadsheet detail as one reviewer said, you see the militaryisting and saying, look, you have to send 40,000 troops. this was last year in the strategy review. you have to have kind of an open-ended commitment. esident obama did not buy that and there are some electric moments where he confronts the generals and the pentagon, and says, look, you promised me three options and you've given me essentially on secretary gates, defense secretary, finally says yes, mr. president, we owe you that option. but it ner comes. the president has to take thgs from memos and thing that is gates has said to come with the 30,000 troops and a beginning, a vague beginning of drawdown next july. so it's cobbled together. again, the problem of not having that personal relationship with the generals when mcchrystal was put in last year initially to be the commander in afghanistan, president obama met with him for 10 minutes. i asked the president in the interview i did for this book, you're picking your eisenhower. how come only 10 minutes? and the president fell off