and i look forward to seeing you in other venues, continuing to support san francisco as a sustainable city. so, thank you very much. (applause) >> we have at least one member of the public that would like to speak, [speaker not understood]. >>> she's wearing a disguise. [laughter] >> to keep the lights off of my eyes. i'm [speaker not understood] and i just want to take this moment to thank melanie since i haven't been able to be at any of her other going away celebrations. melanie, there's one thing i want to say to you and that is thank you for being a champion of the environment ~. first and last and always, and i hope that that's something you take with you wherever you go next. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. other members of the public? and as i said, we still have her for at least next few thing we're going to do, and we even have a couple surprises in store as we go through this hearing. but if there's no other public comment, we can close public comment and move on to our next item. thank you again, melanie. >> you have to vote. >> oh, we have to vote. i try to focus so muc

we must sustain our san francisco city college. the news is good the chancellor is well aware of what needs to be accomplished to save this month important campus and district of the one hundred and 12 if i can be bold. so he has every incentive and i'm consist it will get down. in spite of the of the good news and the progress we're making that there are some who would otherwise enroll in san francisco who are not. we have to make sure we do that we've lost 16 percent of enforcement. to positive expectation accreditation will be sustained and the message is everyone who wants to enroll should and we'll make sure no one is going to get dropped and we have to stabilize funding and that's the point of this bill. without the stabilization of funding what happens is what is the known as a visible cycle. students don't enroll and as a result faculty have to be leadoff and it gets smaller and smaller. that's why we have to stabilize the funding. the bill makes it relating minor amendment there's a single year of funding stabilization in

over ten million gallons of water per year and i guarantee that with the help of the sustainability office and city partners and the sfpuc and environment we will be learning to explore ways to conserve more water, not only because it is scarce, but also because the it is right thing to do and i would like to personally thank the director for all of his work in helping to embed this in the curriculum. >> also i would like to send out a shout out to the civil rights academy who will be hosting the performance for students by the music group ten. ten began a program to provide tools through music and arts to help the youth encourage their potential and later today we will have the information about the african american student honor roll and i will not steal their thunder and emily is here and i believe that virginia marshal will share the information about that event, i also would like to send out a shout out to west portal elementary and the students 200 students will be celebrating the year of the horse by marching in the annual chinese parade in san francisco and the word has it that the superint

we must sustain our san francisco city college. the news is good the chancellor is well aware of what needs to be accomplished to save this month important campus and district of the one hundred and 12 if i can be bold. so he has every incentive and i'm consist it will get down. in spite of the of the good news and the progress we're making that there are some who would otherwise enroll in san francisco who are not. we have to make sure we do that we've lost 16 percent of enforcement. to

as i mentioned before those plaza emerge from existing city programs and this program actually helps tie them in for their long term sustainability approach. so just broadly there's two types of plaza 1 is street plaza and one is city plaza what is different the street are right-of-way and the city plaza are spaces in the morning a street for whatever reason sometimes you have a street that a plaza stays a street because of access issues or all sort of other reigns. so as a summary of the legislative approach it's in the admin code charter 94 that code directs the program and the planning code and the public works code and the police code. the police code amendment identifies the plazas in the program potentially as types of limited live performance low cal and establishes various permits from them and their enumerated and we're happy to answer questions at the end. in conclusion the plazas program is a broad program and hopes to support stewardship efforts especially the sustainability over time and also support innovative fence. we hope this will help with collaboration with city agencies and i'd like to point out too that besi

bag ban to all commercial retailers in san francisco and whereas melanie has advanced the sustain ability of our city and communities with her diligent leadership and tireless efforts raising awareness ~ of reducing energy consumption for small businesses city-wide, and the community through the energy watch program and the green business program, and whereas because of melanie nutter and her exuberant enthusiasm, san francisco is well positioned to continue its visionary programs that have helped make our city the greenest city in north america. now therefore be it resolved that i, mayor edmond m. lee, mayor of the city and county of san francisco in gratitude for her service to the residents of our city and the environment and in wishing her the best in all her future endeavors do here by proclaim today, ~ january 28th, 2014 as melanie nutter day in san francisco. (applause) >> can we all get a picture together maybe? >> yeah. >> we did that before over here, right? we have a nice camera. [multiple voices] >> where should we look? >> look both ways. >> wow, thank you so much. can i just say thank y

sustainable. moving is no good. most cities in china are like there. crisis is ution dissatisfaction rising as of the health impact. hundreds of thousands of remature deaths, up to five years lost from average life expectancy. should like this people stay indoors advises the doctor. outdoors they staged a fun run last weekend. in this smog. fun as chinese get richer they are paying more attention to their of life. small individual acts of protest like there by beijing artists are spreading. on ents fed up with choking the smog, china's communist worried the anger could gain momentum. rare esident made a appearance. he is keen to show he is breathing the same air. >> the political impact of the smog is serious. un hahappy.ery if it isn't fixed it may trigger demonstrations and undermine the government's legitimacy. is now dispatching teams to monitor emissions and says it will spend billions on the clean-up. task.a gar tkpwabegan ghanian polluting industries will have to change. will haven dirty coal to end. tienemen square you need one of these. withou

our continued future success is the city continuing to encourage and develop a thriving merchandising segment. we have a growth that will continue to sustain the various components of the infrastructure in the city that we think we will continue it need as part of the long-term commitment to stay in san francisco. been here for one hundred 17 years we hope we are going to see another one hundred and 17 years in the city. i encourage you as strongly as i can to get behind this legislation. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm tim colon and this is not a housing issue but i want to say how excited i am to see this proposal come forward. it's going to bring flexibility to land use. one of the things i keep hearing they didn't get how p dr was going to work and didn't do much about that it seems like the market isn't going to deliver the types of uses we envisioned we're talking about 2016 and 2017. that possibility of taking land that hearsay extremely low job density that's a vast amount of more jobs nor folks. that's one of the premises of p dr but? a pragmatic concrete way to deliver on that. i think super

city college's accreditation. >> it is a baseline to restore enrollment, to rebuild the school and through the process of sustaininge chancellor said the 62al would lose -- lose $23 million if the legislation doesn't pass. >>> former city counselman died. he was the first african american to be elected. he served for four years. he died this morning after a long battle with cancer. >>> a new campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking. it is part of a effort to comply with a bile make a hot line number available for victims in english, spanish -- english, spanish and chinese. >>> facebook's mark zuckerberg and his wife have just been named as the most generous philanthropist for 2000 2013 -- 2013. they donated $992 million in facebook stock to a mountain view non-profit. this marks the first time anyone under the age of 30 made the list of top 15 philanthropists. mark zuckerberg is only 29. his wife is 28. >>> america's cup may be twice as big, the expense a new report takes into account. >> a change to an important northern california water way, the before and after. >> and right after the break i am track

sustainability. this is a theme we've heard through the city not just the designated the rec and park department they designated nature areas this is how do we bring nature into the city, how did we think about nature thorough out and this is now being the internet is being adapted and that looked how to create habitat throughout the city. finally, we have a brand new objective how to engage the community how do we work and figure out how to make those projects the best they can. the intention we were making sure we had a guiding envisions for engaging the community. and finally, something that's obviously trying to figure out how to fund all of this. the maintenance of parks is a big issue that could about and funding the maintenance the rec and park department rely on general funds so we're trying to get creative and this perpetrates some ideas and puts them out there none of them you have to do it sets forth some ideas to consider. so this is a quick snapshot what did we do since the last it sdraft maintaining our cars and recreation is important maintaining our private open spaces and privatizati

. >> in a city renowned for sustainable development with a high standard of living, it was the readinessf the football facility. >> this stadium had all sorts of difficulties. there has been problems with the builders and contractors. a local judge halted work for a month while the they investigated workers' safety issues. up until recently the club that would own and manage the stadium didn't know where to come up with the money to finish the construction. the stay has given the city a second chance. there's a lot of work to be done. >> the stadium is targeted to be completed in may. that's a few weeks before iran and nigeria meet in the opening world cup match in the city. >> to the n.b.a. the indiana pacers got back. following close on their heejs miami heat in second -- heels, miami heat in second. lebron james a season-high 42 points to help them to a 117-106 win. miami's dominance over dallas - not losing to them since the 2006 n.b.a. finals. >> rafael nadal makes a comeback. the world number one showed no signs of a back injury seeing him lose in melbourne. he won his first-round

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agency the bank of data allows the staff to track trend and forecasts on the sustainability issues and the data is being used by cities controller's office. moving forward so this slid the purpose really is to outline some of the priorities in the next 2 years. so moving forward we'll support of the core operations the proposed budget is a flat with a modest amount of increases. the stenographic planning work will be housed in external affairs and this will be in partnership with the general manager office and a sustainable planning win our team. we'll have attention towards the new committee i met some of the new members today. and that work with the southeast facility commission is fully underway. your general manager will be presenting at the commission on february 13th to give an update on a variety of issues we've been working with the executive director and the increased attention in our minds hoping help us as we meet on a variety of improvement programs. the other area that we're requesting additional resources is the support the investment of a water water across the country to evaluating vat the infrastructu

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. >> the city world renown for sustainable development and has one of the highest standards of living in the country, it was readiness of the football salt that is a problem. >> this stadium has had all sorts of difficulties. there has been problems with the builders and the various contractors. last year a local judge halted work here for almost a month while they investigated workers safety issues. and up until recently the club that is going to own and manage this stadium didn't know where they were going to come up with the money to finish the construction. but now fifa has begin th giveny and the stadium a second chance, and as you can see there is still a lot of work to be done. >> the stadium is targeted to be done in may, but that's just a few weeks before the world cup match in the city. al jazeera. brazil. >> it now almost 1:00 this evening in sochi russia, home of this year's winter olympics. the big news of the day, finland beating russia 3-1. and technology has quickly become a staple of the private sector. morgan radford reports from new york city where some say the tech

city is enhancing the current workforce system. it is an opportunity, for a model of change, and how we are working with developers and employers, to direct placements to sustainable jobs for the most vulnerable communities. and i also want to acknowledge that although, city wide, san francisco is seeing a decline in unemployment, the target the neighborhood that have been highlighted in the da are the ones that are experiencing the most subborn and unemployment rates in china town, for example, in others, we know that the unemployment rate is twice as high, so, that really gets masked when we look at city wide unemployment rates, and so we also asked to have a true, better understanding of those neighborhoods and the unemployment rates and also the under employed. >> so with the da we have found a couple of challenges among the cpmc, performance. in the failure to make quantified projections of the numbers of entry job levels that projects higher than next year and how that makes planning an effective training program and possibly for the san francisco foundation. so further community group concerns are whether the healthcare academy which is named in the da have