there is part of the california building codes that states are you duvet. there are similar things in the americans with disabilities act. however, they are different. buildings built before 1992 are not grandfathered. but it is expected that if an alteration takes place in a building built before 1992 that not only the area of remodel be accessible, but also you have to start looking at the path of trouble. if those items leading to the area of remodeling are not readily achievable to be made a -- to be made accessible, there is a possibility you do not have to do them. all of this seems to be a little bit subjective in the ada. unlike the california building code, it is not specific. the california building code would require those things -- providing a path of travel. if it proved to be impossible to provide them, you could possibly qualify for what is called a reasonable hardship. that is based on a mix of ability to do the work to remove the barrier, the amount of money that is being spent, the effect on the business -- things like that. all new buildin

the gentlelady from california. ms. eshoo: mr. speaker, i'm pleaseto yield to congresswoman doris matsui. the speaker pro tempore: for ow long? ms. eshoo: for two minutes, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. matsui: thank you. i thank the gentlelady for yielding me time. mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 1076. i can't believe what i'm hearing from the other side of the aisle. it's not a lefty hyped organization. this bill would prevent public radio stations from using -- from purchasing programs. mr. speaker, this would be a huge disrupon to our nation public radio system economy and most importantly the intellectual content and news that so many americans rely upon. according to a recent study, n.p.r.'s overall audience grew last year to over 27 million weekly listeners. that's over 60% overall since 2000. and this is when most other media markets or outlets are struggling. i was a former board chair of sacramento's local pbs tv station, and i was ch

the energy commission is trying get another one in california. it's locating and measuring sites where we don't expect differences in the land use and really trying define really some of what's happening. the next one is maybe a little bit far out, but we're talking billions so for that kind of money, maybe we ought to support or look that idea of something out in space just like putting mirrors out there, something that can be taken down if necessary so reflect some energy back into space that we're not getting. >> thank you. brad has a comment. >> yeah, thanks. this whole question of data i think has or needs a very close look by the water management data. when you take the wrapper off of this you see it has lots of warts on it, let me talk about the,nrcs, in the west. i know you all have your own. but i saw a persuasive speech by randy who is quite properly convincing. changes all the way from stainless steel pillows to ten gallons and black pillows of this. vegetationle changes, the lesson here, i think in general and this applies to,usgs, and

our keynote speaker is and was the first "lady lawyer" in california. it's true. because when she decided that she wanted to become a lawyer, there was one problem, the law in california didn't allow it. and so she had to change the law, which she did. she also wanted to go to law school right here at hastings college of law but they had a policy that said only men could go do that law school so she sued hastings college of the law and she changed that and she was the first woman to attend hastings law school. and when she got out of law school, there were no jobs. no jobs. because no one would hire women. so what did she do? she became a criminal defense attorney because that was the one place where it didn't matter and she fought harder than a man and that was good enough for her clients and she became one of the top criminal defense attorneys and she practiced right here in san francisco. she also began advocating to change laws. so she changed the law that used to be that in criminal trials throughout the trial you were shackled. you were actually shackled and

he provides assistance to the california state senate in furthering economic, environment, educational and cultural exchanges with foreign governments and citizens. president brooks also served as director of administrative services for the city of san francisco where he was responsible for policy and planning for 14 city departments, managing over 300 employees, and a budget of $100 million.

published a report titled, changing climate, assessing the risk to california. the report looked at 3 scenarios for cutting the amounts of emission that we pump into the atmosphere and depending on whether and how much green house gas emissions can be brought under control, the report projects by the end of the century average temperatures in california will rise between 3 and 10 1/2 degrees centigrade. one of the most publicized impacts of global warming is a predicted increase in sea level. and here's a graph showing sea level rise in san francisco bay. now, i want to note one very important fact about this graph. it does not show predicted sea level rise. it shows how much the level of the bay has risen over the past century. since 1900, the bay waters have risen 7 inches. and we at bcdc have been monitoring this increase for decades and we have been especially concerned because ground elevation, particularly in the south bay, is sinking because of ground water extraction. so even if there's no sea level rise, we expect more flooding as the low-lying areas con

it seems one of the key areas to implement is in the california environmental quality act. the planning and conservation league is hosting series of workshops across the state helping planners and community leaders integrate climate change in all the work they do, so i'd like to get your thoughts on that and specifically from jeff, when do you see metropolitan, integrating climate change into their analysis? >> good question, except i'm the moderator. >> that's an excellent question and that's what we wrestle with, how to incorporate it into a type of analysis where, yes we can see more constant variables in volatility and we don't know how things will be driven. certainly we see things warmer, but as the models it could be more snow melt and perhaps we have not been able to confidently say what all the impacts of it are. but it is something we have looked at. we are going through - every five years we have an integrated resource plan we update and the following year after that, we try to up date our urban water management program and the next cycle is suppose to have a chap

in 2010, speaker progress was elected by his peers by the california state assembly. as someone who works for the legislature, it has been a thrill watching you rise to your leadership that i know our state needs right now. i asked phil to describe his college friend using three words. he said passionate, committed, just gets it done. that is more than three words. i do not know about you, but those are three solid words i am happy to hear describing one of the most powerful leaders in our state. i am proud to introduce the speaker of the assembly john paris. >> thank you. this week the governor unveiled a difficult budget with $28 billion worth of solution we need to find and somehow you are surprised that i wanted to leave sacramento? i am honored to be here. it is an incredible privilege to celebrate tonight with all of you this wonderful transition as you enter your next phase of public office. it is an honor to be a part of this process with you. phil and i have known each other a long time. we met when when we were both young students at uc berkeley. as we celebr

in the recent california assessment, we used three of these scenarios. or at least models that were based on those to guide us in assessing what might happen in the state of california in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this peri

the california maritime academy internship program, also won reserved. the interns at the heron's had parked, apprenticeship program, and building enhancement training programs at pier 70. the collaboration between the committee and port staff resulted in the program expanding from 150,000 in 2005 to a budget proposal $700,000 serving low-income and young adults and disadvantaged residents. skill sets offered range from landscaping and recycling to ship repair. budget analysts recommended that we prepare an overview of youth employment and workforce development programs, which we have done and handed out today. specifically to the reserve programs for the sheriff's garden project, this would be expanded for the earth stored program to hire two apprentices and one senior apprentice to provide enhanced park maintenance on the southern waterfront and do native plantings for parks. the requested funds funded four months of the program. next year the program is fully budgeted and will be before you in may. the maritime program collaborates with the california

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this covers the entire california coast. the worst of the surge as this happens this morning with the highest waves that does not mean the threat is over. in combination with high tide, as we've been talking about there still could be dangerous search for this evening. that's why the advisory remains in effect, still the beaches and the coastlines, harbors all still ounsafe as the threat remains. the highest surge around port are we not around 8.7 ft., over 8 ft. through crescent city, san francisco with the surge of 2.1 ft. above sea level. these are pretty impressive surges that are coming on shore today. that will stick around for the evening. as far as the weather, increasing clouds into tonight and tomorrow morning. a weather system that is a riveting, could bring in rain for the afternoon. they're the cause for tomorrow. lotus rain showing up for the afternoon hours, just threw the north bay. a slight chance of rain in the north bay, otherwise of very cloudy skies with temperatures getting into the upper 50s and low 60s

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the california state senate and the u.s. assembly both have votes scheduled today on governor brown's budget and tax extension plan. the government needs to support two republicans from each chamber to reach the two-thirds he needs to approve a special election in june. but so far, there is no indications how this vote will go. >> the question is will the republicans vote to give the people the right to vote or will they thumb their nose at the voters of california. >> the five year proposed extension of taxes would help fund schools. yesterday layoff notices went out to 19,000 school employees including hundreds of right here in the bay area. there is also a new field poll that shows the majority of california voters supporting the budget plan if it does get on the ballot. they find that 58% would vote for it. 39% say they would vote no. 3% say they have no opinion at all. >>> 6:19 is the time. sal always has opinions. doesn't always get to share them. how is traffic? >> if you're in the newsroom sometimes you might hear th

my point there was when you talk about the california water community it's thousands and thousands of people all spread across the state in terms of what we're doing to integrate why mate change one is to make it a major part of the california update where we're already geared up to do it and the other is distribution under prop, 84 and we'll have workshops on how we can make this climate issue a preference or some sort of incentive of prop, 84 to get it in play there. in terms of governors matrix. we've already evaluated the carbon footprint to look at our issues there obviously we have a lot of hydro and some information i got this week, our portion of the carbon footprint is one half of one percent so we're looking at that issue to see what we can do with our power portfolio to manage that better and we have all those cues so we hope we can do that to have our people invest. >> if i might follow up is what are you telling your contractors about future reliability from the current system, setting a side whether we proceed with strategic growth plan. we actually issue as major climat

that's local to the san francisco, puc, the california commission has listed grant under their renewable fuels program and they are reported to supply several millions of dollars to demonstrate the viability of product that can be commercialized. all the good establishments in urban areas to convert to bio diesel fuel. these collaborative opportunities are available and have been used for many years now throughout the various states and, i think the opportunity is right in front of us to take advantage of these opportunities. in this particular case you have the state of california, you have the region nine, epa, so you have a regulator, san francisco ucuc. all contributing to funds offered by the california commission. so i'd like to suggest that we, as a group here, recognize that those opportunities are out there and that we leverage those opportunitys for the sake of reducing the carbon footprint and if we do that, these are near turn gains we can do as we get to the long-term as far as uncertainties and hydrological issues that might take a longer

it seems one of the key areas to implement is in the california environmental quality act. the planning and conservation league is hosting series of workshops across the state helping planners and community leaders integrate climate change in all the work they do, so i'd like to get your thoughts on that and specifically from jeff, when do you see metropolitan, integrating climate change into their analysis? >> good question, except i'm the moderator. >> that's an excellent question and that's what we wrestle with, how to incorporate it into a type of analysis where, yes we

the san francisco public library much the california cultural arts program and we couldn't do it without the good folks in the mayor's office of neighborhood services. what i'd like to do now is strue -- shall truce -- intro duce tanish hollins from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. >> good amp, family. happy black history month. could we hear it one more time? [applause] >> we are so honored to be here. we look forward to this every year. it's a hall mark event for the city and county of san francisco. an opportunity to reflect on the many, many contributions of african-americans in this city and how each of us has changed the gee graval and cultural landscape of this city. how fitting that we celebrate black history month today, which is also the same as lunar new year and also an opportunity -- opportunity to reflect on the diversity of this city and how happy we are to be in a city which is so inclussive. so without forth delay i would like to welcome you on behalf of mator's office of neighborhood services. mayor lee will be joining us later. with the invocations, we woul

coastal town near the california-oregon state line. the coast guard says the missing man and two friends were on the shoreline yesterday taking pictures when they were swept out to sea by the wave. two of the men managed to swim back to shore, but the third never did make it back. the coast guard says it is unlikely that individual survived. coming up later on mornings on 2, we'll take you live to carecen city for an update on the clean-up efforts there. >>> right now a search and rescue team from los angeles is heading to japan. team members spent last night packing and loading up equipment. the 74-person group consists of doctors, building experts and firefighters. six canine teams are also making the trip. the team left last night and are expected to arrive early tomorrow morning. >>> fbi agents are heading to peru in accept for new clues in the disappearance of natalee holloway. they will like in a laptop belonging to joren van der sloot who was never charged. holloway went missing during a trip to aruba. police say van der sloot wa

comes to our water supply the aqua duct that supplies southern california, the state water project owned aqua duct is also vulnerable to small levels of -- small amounts of sea level rise which could breach the levies in the san francisco sacramento bay delta region. so we are intimately tied to and connected to that overall city. our plan is simply to work with everybody we can find, every partner we can find, to try to find ways to address these issues, to help with funding and to make sure that we are aware of the science to be doing some proactive planning on our own system, and of course to be supporting legislation that will lead to the kinds of dramatic reductions in emissions which will, we hope and trust, help to avert some of the worst impacts of climate change in the future. but the fact is that climate change is not only real, it is in fact happening and so we are dealing with it right now. the three speakers that are on my panel are all people who are coping in various ways and helping to be part of the solution. i'm going to just briefly introduce all three of them in order

. >> as you know, this is regarding the california pacific medical center long-range development and tonight's meeting is the first of three meetings to cover the detail of the upcoming development project. if there was three hearings in the fall of 2009 including one joint hearing of the to the institutional master plan which included discussion about their proposed projects under review. there is also one hearing regarding the draft eir. the goal of this series is to provide a more in-depth and up- to-date discussion about these projects and the progress made on some topics since the hearings. we would like to remind people that these are not for making comments on the draft eir and we would like to everyone to focus -- have their comments focus on the informational hearing. we will present a high level overview of the project, the strategy for complying with the seismic safety laws and the plan for health care delivery. the director of public works is here. the goal is to hope is on the health-care delivery plans, not delivery themselves. at the next hearing, we are proposing to di

california since 1978. we have worked with many of the hospitals in san francisco, as well as northern california. we worked with cpmc for many years in the analysis of patience and communities, including development of the new citywide plan. although this plan is exempt from the new master planning process, i am confident that if you had a plan today, you would approve it. cpmc's proposal would be consistent with that plan because it is based on the same principles included in the ordinance. this is efficient designed to enhance quality and cost and enhancement of public safety and disaster preparedness. the proposed plan takes into account social, economic and environmental factors. it is based on analysis of historical roles cpmc has played in the city. the plan is based around a citywide system that includes home and community-based services distributed throughout the city, in addition to more efficient and modern emergency and the services. cpmc cares for more than 30% of san francisco residents. the plan to rebuild it will result in more centrally- located inpatient facilities and better desi