. -- raising system. -- rating system. highlighting some of the important features, it would cover all critical areas in the city, routes, and locations. giving us up to 95% geographic coverage in the city. thank you. by comparison, the fire department and the police department has 97% coverage. 95% coverage is really good for us. there is only one channel available in the subway for voice communication and that allows only one conversation to occur. the new system will make all 14 channels available. because of its capabilities, it allows more than one user per channel. people have a lot more capabilities, especially in the subway -- we will have a lot more capabilities, especially in the subway. there will be a new digital, a visual announcements and the system throughout the system. moving on, there are a lot of capital programs within the agency that depend on air radio system to continue. some of them are anxiously awaiting the completion of this so that they can bring some of those requirements in to their own system

upfeed with this system. with the older one, we were able to convert the existing dbs that we had over to the new system. for the fundamental patient records, their registration, their diagnostic information, the billing histories, et cetera, we were able to bring a majority of that data forward. however, the whole idea now doing an electron medical record online is fairly new in the industry. so our old system -- there was no need to do that, so there was no capacity for a detailed patient care plan, electronic prescription administration, et cetera. so those are the pieces that are sort of new. they're building on the data that we were able to bring forward from the legacy system into the new system and have that as a baseline. supervisor kim: just for clarification, did part of the incentive for clinics to do this transition this work over to electron was the legislation and the incentives that they provided to clinics to do this work? >> uh-huh. supervisor kim: my last question is what are the anticipated

it costs money to operate these systems. there's a need to continually invest in these systems. there's going to be new regulations. it's all going to cost money. allbee: for all practical purposes, people are going to have to pay about twice as much for these services as they currently do. because a lot of the pipe that went in, a lot of the plants that went in, went in with very sizable portions of federal grant money, mechanisms that are no longer in place. narrator: without grants, utilities often turn to the bond market to pay for large capital improvements. and although the loan is often spread of a 20- to 30-year period, user rates will increase to pay down the debt. woman: until a community accepts the willingness to pay for what they use, they won't have that money that they need to replace this failing infrastructure and improve their treatment plants so they can meet regulations and population growth. elected officials have to have enormous courage to be able to raise rates, to go out for bond levies, to deal with a situation that most people don't even see. it flushe

i am so proud of this system.thousand dedicated people serving all of our citizens and visitors -- 5000 dedicated people. i want to thank former mayor brown for being here as well. [applause] archie protocol officer -- our chief protocol officer, thank you for being here as well. [applause] someone i learned a lot from being city administrator, our previous city administrator. thank you for being here. i am so thrilled to share the stage with so many of our elected officials, our mta board, our supervisors, but certainly, foremost in my mind has been our wonderful senator dianne feinstein, who really have the compassion for this system. before i introduce her, i just wanted to just let you know again how valuable this system is to us and what it means to us today, but in recognition of that, before we do that, it still is -- i mean, we've got 63 bus routes that are managed by our mta. seven light rail lines. the historic f line streetcars, of course. 700,000 daily borders of our mta -- daily boarders of our mta. o

and into our transportation system. we are improving muni through the trans effectiveness project, making it function better, more effectively, -- through the transit effectiveness project. we are improving taxi service, so we see great things ahead as we move into the next century of service for muni and the mta and helping to make moving around san francisco better, easier, safer, and more enjoyable for people who need to get around in this great city of ours. it is an honor to serve the people of san francisco and the people of the bay area. i want to thank the great leadership represented by those behind me and the men and women of the mta for making any success we have possible. before i relinquish the microphone, i am going to ask our operations folks to start moving car number 1. they are going to turn it around so we can take a ride on it, and then we are going to put it back in service for the people of san francisco home it was meant to serve --whom it was meant to serve. [applause] >> thank you. we called tom

the fact i am in the system. there are quite a few number of people that don't have to be there but are becoming debilitated by the system itself, not by the shelters. i don't think anyone is negating any one -- negating any thing in the system. as a director mentioned, this is an overtaxed, overburdened system. help us to find the real estate to get a place to live and to create the jobs of the future because there is manufacturing on a level that has not been seen in a hundred years. there are people buildings small businesses that run on websites that need manufacturing. >> thank you. >> i would like to thank the board of supervisors for the opportunity to speak to you. i am outraged. you seem like well intentioned folk. there is the disparity and perspective so glaring from our stance. you have this system, the able- bodied and you have the broken body. the accounting box the grants so they get provided a bit. you cannot touch this check, so the broken bodies get jerked around. this is plainly evident. anyone

the invasion system there was obviously a failure, so whatever system they have now must be better.caution this committee that you have to keep a very close aye on computer systems. we have to thank supervisors ammiano and david chiu in the past to call attention to the past problems the city has had with its numerous computer system. this avatar system actually had a meeting a few months ago down on -- >> my apologies. that was not reset. supervisor chu: go ahead. >> anyway, i did have a meeting down on howard street a few months ago to discuss the avatar system because in the course of my research, i ran across a couple of articles saying that the initial implementation was pretty faulty, so hopefully it's better and i guess by the questioning by the members of this committee, it looks like we are keeping an aye on it. for the record, i would also like to say that when it comes to spending $31 million, we have to remember two notable failures recently in regards to updating computer systems. i'm sure everybody here is aware that down the street, the california judicial council adm

how does this system work. you are trying to go to a shelter, how does this system deal with that individual? >> for our adults, we have already mentioned the changing in the reservation system. we switched to a system where if a client went to any of these sites, this system allows that sight to see any vacancy available in the system at the time that the client is asking. so, this is a way of creating a one-stop process rather than having clients having to go to each shelter site to participate. the clients to do that. the way the system works in practicality is that at 7:00 a.m. when the system begins each day, any reservations become available if the resource center bed it is identified. those are available for 90 day reservations. beds that already have a reservation that will not be used that they are available for a one day reservation. these are available first thing in the morning and they are taken up by the first people at the reservation sites often during the daytime hours. it is in the afternoon,

conveyor system to kaliningrad the u.s. but that would be a political decision at this point there is no need to do that everything will depend on what the other party specifically the u.s. does on missile defense and of course these going to air missile is capable of destroying missile defense installations. first. you mean that is can their missiles are operational in can be put on combat duty. depending upon whether or not the u.s. upgrades the polish component of the missile defense system. with their correct he's going to air missiles are not including grad region right now they're not even there they're not there. to wrap up the missile defense issue you remember the cold war here you well we both were actually already a deal to the time even though there were smiles handshakes and the creation their friendship what america was considered potentially as their number one enemy but it was days are gone but do you feel that maybe those times are coming back in some way in russia and in the united states i'm not seeing th

they see it as an undergirding of the system. you have to have a system that supports people. you cannot have a profession that pays one fourth of similar careers. >> what one thing should folks watching for -- watching look out for, and what do you want them to go? >> people thought that often people are looking for the silver bullet. somebody said the silver bullet is education. it is a different way to look at it. it is not one activity or action. it is understanding that it is the system of education that insures our country's future because in this society that we now have in global competition, the only way we will all succeeded his to invest in that education. that is the best return of any dollar spent. we have to ensure that our success in the future is done by investing in education today. >> the silver bullet. >> the silver bullet is education. >> thank you. >> thank you, then the. -- dennis. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teacher

voted under the old run off system, which is where i first target. the information is not as thorough as the old days. before rank choice voting got put into place, the department of elections only tracked if somebody voted and the ballot was counted, and all of the people who did not have their ballots counted either because they under voted or over voted. i put together the data. that should be noted that some of the races are won candidate fields. when i am comparing elections, i always ignore one candidate fields. people look at that and say, i am not voting in this race, there is only one person to vote for, so why bother checking the box. you get a very depressed turnout, and that shows up in the data. a couple of things that become, apparent in the next slide, in the mayor's race, there was the 99 election for the mayor where the right in canada it was the second-highest voter. up and lot of people were doing right-in, and their ballot was not counted, or somebody said there is a very popular mayor, not really anybody else on the ballot, so yo

systems. first falls into a classification of adherence to standard. in order for a system to function, there has to be some standard which allows export from a country and import into another country, those standard must be met. it can range from specific tolerance of chemicals, absence of specific microbial contaminants or drugs at a specific concentration in a product. another aspect we found significant is controlling supply chain. so the supply chain is when the chemical or the food is initially produced to when it in the finished product and actually imported. what is that supply chain and some of the problems we dealt with this week, again last month, a couple years ago really has to do with supply chain integrity and how can we monitor that. this is a gap in many systems we looked at. there are infrastructure deficits. in order to implement supply chain control, in order to adhere to standard, there has to be a system in place. there has to be people trained to know that those standard

we've started at modernizing the system it was in effect a formal. army or you. and rearmament program it is definitely a priority for the next three years senior. decisions to make are the decisions to make our army professional has been we need a few years the number of. recruiting servicemen will be minimal but it's to show you the number of contracts old through the growth of the money at the dinners not of course this will affect the solution it will slow your wages of florida servicemen and military pensions. we're going in the same thing with any naturally talk with we should probably invest in the twenty trillion roubles. he little when you. are in a sewer. this will take a shit in your a professional to show us thirty pieces with it if you just go on the market even those that used to be quite special also we need to build an award in a system for research based on our best traditional the best traditions and the best practices of other countries has been organizing our economy and we can the government open and responsible. of washington th

but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different from those in los angeles. and challenges facing small towns are very different from those in metropolitan areas. man: we have to have water supply for health purposes, for fire protection, and the economy. without it, things simply can't exist. woman: we have good health in this country, in part, because we have clean water. and we shouldn't forget that, and we shouldn't take it for granted. melosi: in the late 19th century, serious waterborne disease epidemics were having devastating effects. roy: but then, in the early 1900s, we began to treat our water. and since then, we've seen a rapid decline in the incidence of waterborne disease. narrator: most cities treat drinking water through filtration, chlorination,

transit systems are expensive. when i became mayor, one of the first things we found was that there was not a staggered bus line. do you remember that? one half of the fleet, which was around 300 cars, was breaking down continually. that got my attention very quickly. i think we did do the first staggering purchases for the muni railway so it would never happen again. thanks to the good stewardship of mayer brown and others and the good stewardship of ed lee, it never is going to happen again. then, in around 1983, into my office what gordon swanson, then the head of the chamber of commerce, and rick, who suggested doing and historic trolley festival, and that historic trolleys festival was set to just operate during the tourist season from fisherman's wharf down to castro just for four months. the next year, 1984, was the democratic convention, it was easy for me to convince him to continue that that year. then, it was expanded to a five- year plan, and it existed for five years. well, it has been a few decades si

know how the system is working. we have to focus right here in the city, where we see how we cover this -- this agency. that organization has to focus and understand very well about the homeless people. we see the homeless people and the line, waiting for the bed. at 3:00 in the morning. these are all humans. people with disabilities, people who are handicapped, and people who don't have a place to rest. well i will say -- we know -- they carry no cash. this is not working because we have seen so many homeless people without a bed, overnight. thank you so much. i look forward to working together to resolve these issues as soon as possible. >> thank you. >> hello, supervisors. i am tony frazier. first, i want to thank l.j. and cab street. people are angry out there. they really are. they want shelter. they want a place, bad. we have been in shelters and done outreach. i will say this. it was a guy who came in last week. he was at next door. he had a cap bed. he told us that he was rejected because he went to the gene

a system that does not include lines. a system that does not have you traveling for long distances just to find shelter. something that is simple and easy to understand, accessible 24 hours in a system where we can find ourselves a place to sleep for more than one day. supervisor kim: thank you. [applause] [-- >> [speaking spanish] >> he says that right now, his problem really is not with being turned away for shelter. it is what happens after being turned away from shelter, which is he is a senior now, and it is really hard for him to get over even a common cold. he says he is ashamed of it, but he says that unfortunately, sometimes he has to steal his medicines just to get over a cold. he is grateful for the shelter system but not critical for the facts that it is basically a struggle to get back into good health, good standing so that he can find again shelter and work, and he would like to thank you guys for your time. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you. >> i spent three days weaiting for a bed. we called the electr

so that is a system which i think is a fair system. whether it works or not has never been tested. >> but why is so much attention focused on the volcker rule? >> well, i think it's coming now to the point where it begins to take effect as a legal matter. >> in july, right? >> in july, so i think that has kind of focused attention. and there are a group of big banks that are actively involved in this. and they're afraid that it will curtail more ordinary trading activity, not just a proprietary trade. i understand that concern. i think that concern is overdrawn. i think you can make the regulation, and they will make the regulation, in a way that's rather sensible. >> so are you are saying that speculation by banks, increases the compensation of the ceo and that becomes an incentive -- >> oh yes. >> -- for taking greater risk? and then also if -- >> increase -- it certainly increases the incentive of the guy doing the trading. who, you know, typical compensation practice, he gets part of the profit. >> and if they know the central bank

the ability to monitor systems and understand potential threats to these systems is a growing area of concern to the national security community. nasa's experience with both ground and space-based systems has the potential to assist d.o.d. in this growing mission area. nasa investments in improved sensors, higher spatial resolution, broader area coverage and finer spectral coverage are some of the activities that have potential benefits. our orbital debris program office in houston has been working for 30 years to ensure that we're safe in space and on the ground. nasa is playing a leading role in this effort for the entire government. role in this effort for the entire government. the u.s. strategic command tracks about 22,000 major pieces of space debris and updates their status every eight hours in relation to the international space station. but nasa is aware of more than a million smaller pieces of debris. some of these articles only we can see with our telescopes and other monitoring equipment. and only we can characterize their environment and potential impacts. a collision sev

systems like this that will allow transparency, clarity, accountability, and efficiency -- i think systems like this need to be applied to all parts of the city. we really strive to lead and embraced technology so we can be ahead of the game. [applause] >> we are spending $15 million per week just on our water system. that does not happen without incredibly good management, personnel management and i.t. systems to make it work. harlan kelly is responsible for all of that. [applause] >> good afternoon. first, i would like to thank spur and mfac for this prestigious award. also, ed harrington for nominating me. also, a special thanks to my family. mason, kelly, tray, my wife, naomi, my sister joy, and my mother-in-law. they have been supporting me for a long time. behind this individual all board, there's a team of people that are responsible for making things happen. just for a moment, i want the puc to raise their hand and give a shout. we have a lot of folks who really committed in making the systems wwork. again, we have billions of dollars that we are entrusted with delivering in a time

with the just compensation system does and the tax system is it says if you know that there's this particular kind of financial burden against you, you will not take something that you didn't have to pay. so compensation is not only way of creating justice after the fact, one individual is singled out for disproportionate burden, and also gives you a set of signals which organizes and structures the way in which government should be used. want you dead in the to worry about how you allocate what we can't technically surplus if you have a group of 100 people, and you take property worth 10,000, equally from everyone of these people, 100 a person or a great something worth who gets it? and all the rules editing with pro rata distribution our innocence and effort to try to stabilize the. people do tend to think of pro rata as a way to make sure people are treated equally and dignity in the world, that it is surely correct but it also has this huge instrumental benefit of stabilizing gains by preventing partisan struggling to create more complicated capital. everybody knows when you start putting