discussion about a because many of the decisions we're making are affecting the city at all levels, and support city, support structures etc., getting the feeling which neighborhoods are hit and which parts of the population are affected and geographically how it plays itself out would be very important for us to take into consideration. i ask the commission to support we asked for such a presentation or somebody that can fill us in. yes second thing is, on a much brighter note, there was an in a screening of a movie last night in the kabuki theater of a film shown at the toronto film festival. commissioner fong was good enough to pass our names around. the name of the movie is "urbanized." it is a phenomenal movie about cities worldwide talking about urban issues and how people in 40 cities across the world are attacking the broadest range of issues. they're talking about it every thursday, how the rest of the world addresses these issues is inspiring. i hope the entire planning department and anybody interested in city and suburbanism -- and urbanism. i encourage everybody to see this movie. it's

what we should do to help generate additional revenue to support city and county services. how would this impact the city and residents of san francisco? >> thank you for the question. last year, i worked on the local hire ordinance. it is using existing revenue, our tax dollars to create jobs for local residents. as far as looking at revenue, the services, it is something i have been doing a number of years and i have already talked about it. i want to look at the income tax that we can use to cover basic services. i also want to look at a vehicle license fee that could be used to cover municipal, pedestrian safety, cycling, looking at a parcel tax that would cover the needs of the parks and schools. the parcel tax would be graduated. if you have commercial real- estate property, you will pay more. and want to focus on the least among us. we have black kids and brown kids who are killing each other on the streets. we need a strong response, and having revenue to do that will be part of my solution. >> first, i would change the charter so we have the immiscible bank of san f

one block to the saint regis hotel for the sixth annual leadership gala casino night which helps support city pack and without city pack, we wouldn't have had proposition 22. so, enough of the public service announcements. we are excited and honored to be in san francisco, consistently rated as one of the most popular cities in the world, for this year's 113th annual conference. the state's fourth largest city has hosted our conference several times and we are thrilled to be back. please help me in welcoming san francisco mayor ed lee. [applause] mayor lee: good afternoon. and welcome. welcome to the world series champion city and county of san francisco. i may not be much of a politician, but i certainly know how to trash talk. and i want you to know that that's how i introduce myself when i'm at the u.s. conference of mayors. i kind of say, hey, i'm ed lee, i'm the mayor of the world champion city of san francisco, what are you mayor of? i wanted to welcome all of you here to moscone center, our center of conventions and also to san francisco. and i hope you are enjoying the weather. as may

supportive housing turns lives around. we live in a vibrant city. we live near busy streets, and noisy schools, popular bars and restaurants whose regular is frequently celebrated at inconvenient hours. i wish that i could give comfort to those neighbors that have spoken in opposition to the motion that there is nothing to worry about. they have a national reputation has service providers and managers, and i believe it will be a positive addition to the neighborhood. the one thing i know for sure is that the head with the second will save lives. those lives will be our sons and daughters. thank you. >> i work for allies united, formerly friends of the children for eight years. and i work with foster youth and at risk youth. i understand the concerns and the fear, i support this project. the biggest concern is safety, but i have seen the youth services performed very well, internationally known to be a successful program. selecting people that want to be stable adults. they need help and deserve a real chance. i feel san francisco should allow this.

we need to have a more supportive city and not use force to prevent the demonstration from continuing. this resolution i am sending to the city operations and neighborhood services committee, which i am the chair of. hopefully, we can have a special meeting on monday and have it come back to the full board. i think time is of the essence. i am concerned that the police could be moving against the demonstrations this evening. there needs to be concerned from the people who are demonstrating right now that that is going to happen. what it comes down to, we are talking about people's peaceful assembly and the right to free speech. in this case,

city colleges, they become couch surfers. they go from house to house with no permanent or stable residents. a lot of them end up dropping out because there is no support services for this population. in the city of st. francis where we talk about these values of supporting and protecting the people that don't have a lot of protection, this is one of the projects that we should be supporting in san francisco. i want to point out that this is a drop in the bucket of the real housing needs for this population. i want to make sure that we can be as supportive in san francisco for the population to continue to support projects that really bring this population out of poverty and out of their cycle of abuse. i want to wholeheartedly support this project and i hope that the board of supervisors can, too. >> i am with the council on community housing associations, we are in strong support of the project. you are talking about to institutions, they have had an incredible track record. these are organizations that we look to as a coalition, as models of how to get it done and how to do it well. and that is a core value of those organizations. i want to put that

we need to have a more supportive city and not use force to prevent the demonstration from continuing. this resolution i am sending to the city operations and neighborhood services committee, which i am the chair of. hopefully, we can have a special meeting on monday and have it come back to the full board. i think time is of the essence. i am concerned that the police could be moving against the demonstrations this evening. there needs to be concerned from the people who are demonstrating right now that that is going to happen. what it comes down to, we are talking about people's peaceful assembly and the right to free speech. in this case, the right to free speech and assembly seem to be one in the same period that is what the movement is about. a demonstration to call for a better world, one that takes into account people over corporations and flipping the current paradigm that we live under now. that will be my last item for introduction. >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes roll-call for introduction. supervisor chiu: thank you. why don't we go to gen

i am also proud to have the support from all over the city pier the california police chiefs association, the former chief, heather fong, at the same time i have support from leaders -- neighborhood groups from all over the city. democratic clubs are endorsing me. san francisco democratic party has endorsed me. the teachers' union has endorsed me and six of the seven school board members have endorsed me because of my focus on schools rather than investing in prisons. nobody else was able to put together this kind of incredibly broad support throughout the city. people have a hunger for reform, and people from all stripes, from all parts of the city are coalescing around this campaign because they know that i am the person who can lead the criminal justice reform that need. i would be honored to have your support. thank you very much. >> the san francisco district attorney is the chief law enforcement officer in the city and county of san francisco. 10 years, statistics show that we have failed miserably, especially in serious and violent crime. we must reform the investigative unit. the

by clipping coupons, only shopping when there was a sale, could support some many people that i used to see growing up, why can't the city and county of san francisco support this project and provide housing for transitional aid used? i urge you to make the right decision and the support and move forward the edward the second. the goal was to have 400 by 2012, we know that is not going to happen. but let's not delay any further and given the right direction. >> i am the executive director of the treasure island public development. i am here in favor of the housing project being proposed by community housing partnerships had to speak against the appeals of this project. having worked for over a decade and being in contact with so many people have rebuilt their lives and credited the positive environment of treasure island for helping them stabilize, grow, and prosper, i feel strongly that we must provide these opportunities in different neighborhoods whenever we can. it represents the best of what the city can do to address those needs and opportunities. i've also worked with community health at a partnership for 15 years

we're going to not only watch them grow, we're going to work with you to make sure that we, as a city, can support your efforts here by also creating relationships they don't have today, as well. so behind greenstart, there's going to be the city and county of san francisco. this will be a department environment who can introduce someone like silva tech into our fleet, because they're struggling with doing better than just biodiesel. all of these companies so lono, silva techs, 10 rat, and watt, those are the four companies that will introduce themselves. i'm excited to be the mayor right now because this is the start of many, many other names that you're going to mispronounce like i did, because when they start out, they haven't gotten the cool names yet. they will evolve their cool names to introduce themselves to the rest of the world. and when they do, watch out. the clean tech industry will grow like the dickens. they'll really accelerate. because everybody is looking now for how to reduce emissions, how to really contribute seriously to our environment, making a better place. that's what san

city. they hoed -- they showed their support for the demonstration in í oakland. e point the protestors slashed with new york city police. officers made several arrests and there were a few minor injuries. you can go to ktvu.com any time for the updates on the occupy demonstrations. just look for the occupy tab on the front page of our website at ktvu.com. >>> in a money saving move the í oakland school board decided to close five elementary schools at the ebbed -- end of this school year. that came in spite of a protes that brought -- protest that brought out 500 people before the meeting. this morning some parents said it hurts the students to lose their school. >> so many kids are going to lose out as not getting education. no amount of number, 1, 2, 10, 100 or whatever, it is so unfair. >> the í oakland elementary schools scheduled for close yaur are lake view, mark well park and santa fe. >>> the board of directors delayed a decision on a new policy covering when to shut down cell phone service in its under ground stations and tunnels. the proposed policy woul

>> i am supportive of the city attorney's gang in junction. i am also supportive of curfews. but i do think that the issue is a little more systemic. i'd think that we need to really look at our schools and the opportunity that our children have for not only good education but also good jobs when they get out of school. what we see with a lot of the members of our gang community is that the kids have nowhere to go. they are out after 1:00 in the morning at a very young age, and is one of the reasons why i am very supportive of the neighborhood school initiative. we need to give local control of our schools back to our communities so that our kids, when they leave school, at the end of their day, they have church programs and community centers to go back to, like they did 20 years ago when i was growing up. so we had a system in place then where children would go from their schools and to their community centers, and would have after-school programs, athletic programs, tutorials, and that whole system has really gone into -- has gone sideways and now our kids travel 45 minutes

he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a program for r -- will be the case by the summer. let me get one last point and on the question about relationships to lenders. the question was, do have to have an account with a bank in order to get a loan? may answer is no, but the real answer to it is certainly want to do that. one of the things we see as an important thing for you, as a small-business person to establish a relationship with a lender on a variety of levels before you look for funding. part of that is opening an account with them, letting a lender know about your business, understand your business, talk to them as you are growing your business. when the economy is strong, all lenders are shopping for transactions. in times are tough on credit, you want to rely on those deeper liberation ships with your lender. you want to develop a relationship with a lender. it is the case

and very supportive on the mayor's office behalf is here, if you want to hear a few words from him. thank you. >> jason elliott, mayor's legislative director. i have nothing past what the city administrator said other than that the mayor is fully supportive of the plan that you have an stands behind amy as she implements this. he is willing to dedicate his time and energy to this. thank you. >> i do have a question for mr. cornfield. could you just share with us, one of the prime objective suspend the category of shelton place and some of the legislative wording that has -- that has come about to help bring about a category that has really provided an opening for that definition, through fema and other categories, that will allow for our ability to really respond to this impending disaster. >> i will say a couple words about shelter and place. one of the biggest concerns that we all have is that after an earthquake, we could have a lot of folks that either displaced into temporary shelters or buildings are damaged and they go to longer-term interim housing. how are we going to deal with sheltering needs? and through fema and other federal sponsorships, the city, through the