can get the culture and the arts, all the wonderful things we have invested in that make this city successful. jobs continue to be the thing i am trying to do in this city. it will resonate in all the decisions i make. it is the responsible thing to do for any major city now. whether or not we consider ourselves a local city, our regional city, an international city, it is job creation that makes the city run well. for all of us here, i know you have great hope that the city will be able to have decent jobs here that can maintain, that they can spend a good amount of their careers in, and that is why i spend a lot of time with chief adviser kim and supervisor david chiu and the other supervisors talking about how we can sustain the midmarket. that is why we passed a week ago the midmarket payroll tax exemption. we wanted to welcome new companies into the city and understand what it was blocking their ability to stay and to grow. to hear a company -- not just from the cfo, from the president. when i visited twitter, i closed the door and they allowed me to speak to their engineers, to their wo

i think asian community wants a successful city that is balanced. it but not always have to be the pocketbook, but they want a quality city. that is why they came here. it is about the richness of the city in general. do i want to keep living here? do i want to make my life here? that is on the minds of many asian families. i went to lunch with some sixth graders from alice fong. i said, do you want to be in the city? yes, i want to be in the city. they were asking me about twitter. they play some of the zynga games. they did not know that their headquarters were here, but they need to know that, growing up. we want the chinese companies to also use san francisco as their headquarters and to continue to be the gateway. people love that about the city. asian families, the matter their income -- they could be a hotel workers, garment workers, for ceo's, they all want -- or ceo's, they all want a quality city. my job is to make sure they trust government, so that when we say something, we do it. what i do not like it, and past relationships with the go

right thing here and not allowing rhetoric or politics to get in the way of being a safe city, a successful city, a city that knows how to come out of this economic challenge in a solid whey. we need your help to do that. i look forward to seeing you in city hall, not just in the rotunda, but when we have internship programs. by the way, when you go to college, make sure you applied to city hall and all of our 60 departments. you can get an internship at the public utilities commission, health department, department of the environment. there are a host of departments that offer internship programs. while you are of studying in college, in the summertime, even during the year, you can be an intern and learn even more about how the government works. then you can think about a career, whether in the public or private sector, there will be good choices in front of you if you are focused. now we can start with identifying all of you won this year's fellowship award. you are on your way to very good foundation. [applause] >> thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule and for being our onerous

personally, that if we do not have a safe city, we do not have a solvent city, we will not have a successful city. that has been reflective of everything we have done. to the community-based organizations, thank you very much for working very closely with us and the board of supervisors. the controller's office, of course -- [applause] of course, we worked very hard with our controller's office did not want to thank ben and moni que and the budget analysis division staff for constantly working with this. they obviously were working over ours as well to make sure they understood and analyzed everything we did and the outcomes. i also wanted to thank the department of human-resources. mickey and martin. we call them the mickey and martin show. they were there, too, at the 10 community-based meetings that we had. they showed up there with departments, and there were always there to help me explain the repercussions of everything that we did. i really want to thank them. i also want to think harvey rose. i have been on all sides with harvey on the budgets for over 21 years. but i think he did a reall

was successful community outreach. >>> the city of gilroy is doing something and the public rereaction. >> reporter: this reflex from the -- this reflection shows sue's cafe. one of the many downtown places carrie covington has worked the last 30 years. yet, she's not sure the cam yous are on the answer. >> i've never felt unsafe. >> reporter: this is the first of the mounted cameras. police say an organized group of downtown businesses came up with the idea. the reason, a perception that downtown gilroy can be dangerous. there's not a lot of activity so people are feeling that it's just negative activity. >> reporter: the manges from the cameras will be -- the images from the cameras will be

supporters, and volunteers, who are really a big part of the success that we are celebrating this morning. finally, i would like to thank the city, mayor lee, supervisor wiener, and the small business commission for continuing to prioritize the needs of small businesses. it is my hope that we will be able to build on the success of this loan fund so that even more entrepreneur worst -- entrepreneurs in the future can access these funds. thank you so much. [applause] >> i had no idea what to expect. this is my first press conference. [laughter] i have not prepared tirelessly for this, but i definitely have a lot to say about the space that we are standing in, so, welcome. producer real -- pretty surreal at the moment. i have to clarify first that i do not make all this cheese. [laughter] it comes from across the united states from dedicated cheesemakers that worked tirelessly without vacations to care for the animals and the land and create these beautiful beautiful -- create these beautiful pieces of art that are also delicious. that was my inspiration for this space, a place to highlight and celebrate what is going on in the ch

i want us to use the record of success from cities like boston in the usa and from police in scotland who have done this by in gauging the police and voluntary sector in local government. i want this to be a national party. we have announced a gang injunctions. we're going to use them across the country for children and adults. there are further sanctions available. local authorities and landlords already have powers to evict the perpetrators from social housing. some authorities are doing this. i want to see others follow their lead. we will see whether these powers need to be strengthened further. i have asked the home secretary to work with colleagues on across government program of action to deal with this game -- this gang problem. i also believe we should learn lessons from others who have faced similar problems. we're discussing how we can go further getting to grips with gangs with people like bill bratton, former commissioner in new york and los angeles. there were people who thought that it shop windows were smashed it was ok to steal. these people will have to face the full

there's clear evidenced brass band, it bass nearly successful. citynd one huge railing lying on the ground. security tape caught the crime in progress. he was pulling on him back and forth like this. on this one, i'm not sure -- i'm not sure if that's what got him out of the ground or he used some type of tool. >> oakland police plan to keep a close eye on brass railings in other building. >>> a 34-year-old man was swimming with two boys late tuesday afternoon when they were swept away by currents. the coast guard was able to arrest one of the boys and a rio vista firefighter rescued the other. the dive team recovered the body of that other man later that night. >>> two suspects, 18 years old, from east palo atoll are expected to breaking into gunn high school two weeks ago and stealing two mac books. both of those laptops have been recovered. three other schools were brotherrized in palo alto in recent -- burglarized in palo alto in recent weeks -- weeks. those are being investigated. >>> ka she na haridore worked at investigate's extreme team progra

police and organizers claim it was successful community outreach. >>> the city of gilroy is doing something and the public rereaction. >> reporter: this reflex from the -- this reflection shows sue's cafe. one of the many downtown places carrie covington has worked the last 30 years. yet, she's not sure the cam yous are on the answer. >> i've never felt unsafe. >> reporter: this is the first of the mounted cameras. police say an organized group of downtown businesses came up with the idea. the reason, a perception that downtown gilroy can be dangerous. there's not a lot of activity so people are feeling that it's just negative activity. >> reporter: the manges from the cameras will be -- the images from the cameras will be transferred. this man hopes they can stop the vandalism. it's cost him big. >> when have you to replace a window, $600. >> reporter: another owner says the loss of privacy rights is a much higher price to pay. the problem is, it seems like the greater good we're given up more liberties. the camera at fifth and monty vary a test. if it passes, other cameras will be set up

city would be responsible for any cost incurred by shell in displacing that energy? i would love to see what that would look like for the substitution, so if we are successful in conserving as a city department for example and have power freed up that we could put into the mix for the cca program, what are the financials? and i guess there are two issues. how do we structure it to avoid a problem is a better version of that question. and then what do we expect the charges to look like. what i am hoping to see is that if we spend eight cents getting some conservation energy and we put it into the cca at 15 or 18 cents, but there is a charge of a couple of pennies for shell dealing with what they have to do, that would be, from my

city would be responsible for any cost incurred by shell in displacing that energy? i would love to see what that would look like for the substitution, so if we are successful in conserving as a city department for example and have power freed up that we could put into the mix for the cca program, what are the financials? and i guess there are two issues. how do we structure it to avoid a problem is a better version of that question. and then what do we expect the charges to look like. what i am hoping to see is that if we spend eight cents getting some conservation energy and we put it into the cca at 15 or 18 cents, but there is a charge of a couple of pennies for shell dealing with what they have to do, that would be, from my perspective, the most compelling reason to do this at all. because we need a place to recover the cost of our various programs. but i would like to see that penciled out. >> in terms of how the substitution would work what we have been discussing we can't schedule the electricity so we couldn't put it into a contract saying a certain number of megawatt hours you are going to offset supply from shell. just do a straight substitution where the mark

city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have with street trees. if i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. >> we d

through the concentration of efforts and reorganization of resources, we have been successful in reducing crime city-wide by about 6% over last year. this can be attributable, obviously, with the help we get from the community and other agencies, but also due to 60% of the traffic been decentralized to stations. 40% of motorcycle lawyers work downtown. 50% of the honda unit work on part and the control. there were teams volunteering to go nights and weekends. you have to remember that is in addition. in the past, we have taken from patrol to create special things within patrol. that is fishing from the same bucket. these officers were not working nights and weekends. they were outside of patrol. when you put 35 to 40 knowledgeable officers -- it is akin to putting an academy class on night. we lose people to retirement. having officers of this caliber go nights and weekends is on top of what we already had. hopefully in mid-october, we will have the offices open. you can find people moving through the hall of justice as we create the special victims unit of the san francisco police department, conso