so the city covers the difference.re not profitable, surabaya's mayor sees a big reason to keep them going. >> since the 1990 s, surabaya has experienced a surge in population and a similar surge in waste. there were no incineration plants, s so everyththing was disposed of in two landfill sites. ♪ >> in 2001, one of these sites reached capacity, but the authorities just kept adding more. this sparked a protest movement among residences and the site was shut down. with only one landfill left, trash piled up on the streets. the smell was unbearable. back then, the mayor was a director of the public cleanliness and parks department. >> surabaya received assistance from kyushu, an industrial city in western japan. it overcame its own problems with pollution, reinventing itself as an eco-friendly city with a rich, natural environment. today it offers its expertise to other cities across asia. in 2002, kyushu dispatched a research team to surabaya. they discovered that half of the city's garbage was food waste. ♪ ♪ >> with

the city of the future. it's entirely interconnected to will regulate traffic save energy 5 crime assisted by big data and the internet all things brave new world or rather surveillance nightmare what because it is look like and do we really want to live there all topics today on ship. more than half of the world's population lives in cities and this number is steadily rising resulting in an enormous challenge. more people want traffic more pollution more energy consumption more water usage more waste small cities are supposed to help cope with these problems projects are popping up everywhere for instance in nigeria south korea india or malaysia a livable city that can think for itself how does this work like this for example. visions of the future this is a smart city as imagined by tech companies and urban planning is regular street lights are replaced by smart poles which connect to other international things devices and provide broadband thanks to dr alice cause accidents hardly ever happen . and drones

how can the city be part of the innotice vision. this office will be the vehicle for the city to be a partner in innovation. that is how to solve what we are creating. it is about new things coming down the pike, how it is going to benefit san francisco, auhow wau--and how we can regulate hot happens. i would like to acknowledge everybody on the board of supervisors, my colleagues who all co-sponsored this unanimously. i especially want to thank the supervisors here today for the ceremony. supervisor sa safai,ual ton, fe, mandelman, mar. thank you all for being here today. there are a lot of people from the community from all sorts of organizations, including people from labor, as mayor breed mentioned. doug blog, rudy, kim, there are many companies here, including representatives from sf city, walk sf, teamsters, san francisco chamber, san francisco labor council, community technology network, microsoft, community living campaign, facebook and so forth. many, many others that i have not named. what i would like to do is thank a few

the second highest in the city. and in district 9, there has been 16,930 cases in the same time frame. making it the area with the highest rates of reported illegal dumping. my office has been working with public works, recology, sfpd, the city attorney, to come up with solutions to stop people from putting their trash and debris on the streets and sidewalks. we had a safety in the public safety neighborhood services committee in march to address some of the concerns. and i'm excited to announce this new piece of legislation to address illegal dumping city-wide. our proposed legislation will redefine and expand the definition of illegal dumping, including what constitutes as one commercial waste, two, electronic waste, and prohibited materials. the legislation will also clarify the types of violations as well as add enforcement allowing public works employees designated in the police code to issue citations. at the moment, only sfpd may issue citations to the people caught in the act of illegal dumping. this creates

if the city controls. when it comes to data protection but most cities lack the technical expertise to process and analyze the data for this reason many cities cooperate with big tech companies they have the capacity and the algorithms needed to work with. like. the alphabet corp it will construct an entire district of to run with technology calls but the data 17 states with corporations like alphabet which is problematic as they use to make money. off as many opportunities so what to do experts argue for so-called data utilities the publicly financed but independent organizations they managed to control access to data anyone interested in developing smart city solutions could use them no matter if city owned business local startup or big company a promising approach i think everyone should be able to profit from. personal data is anonymised as a citizen i cannot influence which state of mind is being used. to cold a project by the european union goes even further to empower individuals to control their ci

it was born and raised in the city to find out. delhi. a vibrant bustling metropolis with over 20000000 inhabitants the capital of a rapidly growing india expected to be the most populous city on the planet in the next decades. it's also my home i was born in delhi and i've lived most of my life but i've been away for a few years and in that time delhi has been making the headlines for an alarming reason it's become the most polluted capital city in the world and its residents say there's snow leaving bison by the air they breathe air pollution is estimated to be the hard highest cause of death in india killing over a 1000000 people every year nearly 12000 people died in that lead 2017 because of the city's bad air some doctors are calling this a public health emergency. so i've come back to find out why like many big cities around the world this pollution from too much traffic and from industry but there are also specific local causes delis geographies one is another what i'm keen to know is why can't more be done to stop this i also want

to grow and the challenges will increase so nor city in the world the job is done and i think for a city like delhi the the knowledge is particularly painful because it affects our health every lucian is a public health that would you see something we need to be densely what it about. so what are the authorities doing here to tackle the most obvious causes of delhi's dirty air. transport sector is one of the biggest contribution to the city's abolition this is made worse by the fact that there is a still real shortfall in the public transport system the delhi government says it's taking steps to fix this problem. last year then he made the commitment that he will bring in $1000.00 we are looking buses this is the largest commitment by any city in india. i. just meant shot at the delhi government has been working on an ambitious electric vehicle plan for the city if we are able to achieve the goal of ensuring that 25 percent of all new year to start away goes in there are electric wiccans in 5 years from now our goal is that in 10 going to look at 100 percent a transition and reduce t

even if the city supports the proposed project, the space would be of benefit to the city. e a project submitted to the city and if the city determined the project is desirable enough, requiring the project to provide at least one unit of housing on site to be eligible for the tua doesn't make sense. the commission's second recommendation was to clarify that retail under the section that describes the types of uses are allowed, should be restated to say retail sales and service. the eligible uses allowed under this site believe that the retail reference was actually supposed to be in reference to retail sales and service. however, there are retail categories of uses in the planning code that would not be desirable to be an active commercial space such as automobile manufacturing, things like that. i'm happy to answer any additional questions and that ends the commission's recommendations. thank you. >> thank you. audrey, can you put that map back up? so, i don't think the map is right. >> okay. let me grab my staff report and i can say out loud the districts. >> supervisor p

>> the city attorney said because of the charter you must. >> deputy city attorney ann pearson only theruction piece is exempted. the services related to contradiction aren't considered construction contract. those don't fall in that exception. >> i will stop. i am having a hard time conceptually understanding why one piece of the project, which is design, seems to be something where we don't rely on a departmental commission process. setting aside legal requirement what is is the right way to deal with this, the design has to come here but the construction which is larger doesn't. i will stop. i am done. thanks. >> thank you very much. so let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would like to move with a positive recommendation to take without objection thank you very much. i think we have time for one more item. please call item 4. resolution declaring intent of city to reimburse future bonds and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to submission documents f

the metropolis the center of the elk brake. a city of 11000000 people with almost no one on the streets transportation severely restricted trains planes buses cars almost nothing leaves or enters the city hospital wards have had to deal with hundreds of cases and thousands more beds have had to be reserved for patients health workers are on the front line of the fight against the virus knows. of course we're worried and so are our relatives. but we're nurses and will do our job as long as we wear the uniform despite the rising number of cases the world health organization has not declared a global health emergency and the question was whether this event constitutes a public of emergency of international concern. the advice to d.g. which is provided by the emergency committee is that no more of the time on thursday china announced that transport links to the cities of one gun and all joe would also be cut by the fear of contagion has produced dramatic scenes like here at food you airport where a man suspected of carrying a virus was co

the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in san >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to

a career with the city and county of san francisco. everyone. thank you all for coming to our quarterly disaster council meeting, a few days before the holiday week. we appreciate everyone being here. i will -- i like to call the meeting to order and remind folks if you are speaking, if you have questions, if you're presenting, please use the microphone as we are filming this and we want to make sure we capture everyone. so, we are going to start with our first item with a report around preparedness. before i start that, i just wanted to

for the city's 3500 or so cans. it's important to note that the system, the 311, doesn't distinguish between overflowing cans and illegal dumping. so this is representative of both. so if somebody on streets sees a bunch of trash around the streets and takes a picture and sends it to 311, it's somebody who has dumped trash around the can. >> can i ask a question if. >> absolutely. >> is the response the same to overflowing and illegal dumping. >> yes, response is the same. i think those requests go, actually, to our part of ecology and they are out there within, i believe, two hours. so we get to those pretty quick. so this is not a new problem. we have some photos. i was flipping through old annual reports and these are from 1968. since the city is so quick in picking up trash, people have kind of back to accept it. there's almost a perception that it's maid service for the city. so people dump their trash out there, it's gone within a few hours and people just doing it. so this has been a problem in the city for a

the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the talent that is here in the city. imulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else >> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee for today, monday,

but other than that, the city is a tough place to ride a bike. it's, you know -- great capital improvements are happening, but it doesn't feel safer. and that's not just me saying that. so one of the things that seemed to be happening is that there are a lot of t.n.c. parking and parking in the bike lane. think about possibly coming up with a way that the companies themselves could pay a part of the fines. part of the reason why i say that is because i have a colleague, a friend, who works for one of the t.n.c.s, and he says they have a lot more information that we might understand. and i've read that they're hyperaccurate maps, so there is a tremendous amount of information out there. so perhaps some of that responsibility could shift to the t.n.c.s because a lot of these drivers are just kind of getting by. that might impact or have an effect on the level of enforcement that is going on. because there isn't necessarily that much enforcement going on. it might be, hey -- it could bankrupt these guys, or something like that. anyways, that's what i

and the city is notjust thinking about kids, but also the people who look after them — carers. nly build upon the history a history built by men. but in pushing for a new vision for the city, its new leaders might be taking inspiration from one of the region's most unique traditions. the castell. janet sanz is barcelona's councillor of urbanism, and she wants to invert another traditional power structure. she is overseeing one of the city's most ambitious projects. it's called the superille, or superblock. in almost every city, cars take up more space than any other road user. the idea of the superblocks is to reclaim the streets for pedestrians or for cyclists, or even just for hanging out. the plan takes nine blocks and forms one big superblock, which are closed off from through traffic. 0nly cars that need access are allowed in, and the speed limit is reduced to ten kilometres an hour. parked cars have to go underground. so instead of busyjunctions, you have parks, picnic benches, and play areas. so far, barcelona has built six of these, but the plan is to extend it to over 5

mayor of the city and one to turn it into a small city you have to consider the following. you need to make your city interconnected by adding senses that connect data for instance to cause a street to be able to regulate traffic or to measuring station station throughout the. city is usually a combination of the different urban systems that we have. for the most part that means mobility systems housing system. administrators systems energy systems education systems and so on anything affecting citizens in their everyday lives can be assigned a digital shadow. that simply collecting data is insufficient big data is no end in itself data needs to be prepared and. based on solutions for usage you can be. someone is close. when the air is heavily polluted anything's possible interconnected. to build a small city one must do 3 things connected via collect data and assess this data to find solution for the citizens but how do i benefit from the smart city here. in. the city saves taxes by using resources more efficiently with the help of sensors public space is only irrigated w

outbreak all transport to and from will haunt is suspended as authorities attempt a korean team the chinese city will it work with the. 11000000 people who is. also coming up the german president meets holocaust survivors in jerusalem he's there with other world leaders to mark holocaust remembrance day and he will deliver the 1st speech 5 german president at the memorial. plus anger boils up over greece's overcrowded migrant camps thousands of protesters demand the government shut down facilities on 3 greek islands where refugees face squalor and desperation. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us it's never been tried before and no one sure will work chinese authorities are attempting to quarantine the city of han a metropolis of 11000000 people that's at the center of the corona virus outbreak that spreading across asia and beyond all transport in and out of the city has been closed down but will the attempt to isolate it work. trying to contain a city of 11000000 people is new to science it has not been tried before as a public health measure so we cannot at this stage say it with o

mines is one of the german cities that celebrates carnival in a big way. colorful festival is a tradition that dates back to the 16th century there's even an entire museum devoted to it a large paper mush a heads or a picture of mine says carnival during the rose monday parade there want to provide some comic relief. mines his most famous son is johana scootin. the inventor of the movable type printing press. it sparked a media revolution in the 15th century. the mind says gutenberg museum also owns 2 of the $49.00 original gutenberg bibles still in existence. in the demonstration workshop visitors can witness firsthand how gutenberg sped up the printing process through the use of movable type printing presses. so let's pull this out. yes yes it's turned out wonderfully. to better understand the mind's way of life you need to get to know it's a wine culture which dates back to roman times. in the old town from the region have revived the minds tradition the wine tavern. along with the wine tasting the bit there can also teach you some poll that need idioms

to help the city prepare we started the work in june with all the city departments to create the support8 function and our first work is to define what is an emergency, how do we speak to the emergency and what's the normal operation. that is probably hard to see. it is available in your handout and is also on the plan. we defined truly emergency conditions and in the plan itself, we've talked through what will happen, right? i think we realize we have a robust emergency measure process in this city and we want to take an advantage on what we know to do well. so cyber emergencies would join the set of potential responses that we may need to take. we've seen a really strong uptick on precipitation from all the city departments in the newest sf-18 plan. we will speak about the new discipline we're building between the security offices and the department preparedness coordinators. this is the start of the work. i think there's a lot of work left to do in terms of the testing the newest function and really stepping up and preparing for the cyber emergencies. my team that supports all of the

how can the city be part of the innotice vision. this office will be the vehicle for the city to be a partner in innovation. that is how to solve what we are creating. it is about new things coming down the pike, how it is going to benefit san francisco, auhow wau--and how we can regulate hot happens. i would like to acknowledge everybody on the board of supervisors, my colleagues who all co-sponsored this unanimously. i especially want to thank the supervisors here today for the ceremony. supervisor sa safai,ual ton, fe, mandelman, mar. thank you all for being here today. there are a lot of people from the community from all sorts of organizations, including people from labor, as mayor breed mentioned. doug blog, rudy, kim, there are many companies here, including representatives from sf city, walk sf, teamsters, san francisco chamber, san francisco labor council, community technology network, microsoft, community living campaign, facebook and so forth. many, many others that i have not named. what i would like to do is thank a few

and drones and robots deliver the goods even coffee. in this future city some. grows underground at the. old minted and visual reality make processes more efficient. one example is that firefighters on duty can be assisted by the control center and tech helps to find and correct system errors to prevent damage before it happens. sounds fantastic but in order for these ideas to become reality technical preconditions are essential a central role for so the new mobo communications standard 5 g. it's the engine for the internet of things and enables interconnected infrastructures on a grand scale an expert on smart cities is your. is a researcher at the institute for technology management at the university of st gallen and has published a book with guidelines for cities that want to become smart we want to know how do i make a city smart and why. we want to improve people's lives. that's how i would summarize the goal of a smart city. in order to do this it's important for citizens to be able to properly explain what kind of city they'd like to live in. that's the st

so when does the city of detroit and the mayor decide to get the people in the city of detroit car insurancehich is needed instead of having the police to stop the different individuals and write them to get the can afford. why continuously utilize à >> same people that lost everything. >> the fight is never ending. you fight on this and and you fight on that and and continuously fight or fight the gas company here, gas company over there. overall it's just a fight that continuously being a fight but what will you win. when does the mayor get together and the city and come up with something that can help detroit and not give pathway to corporate america downtown. all the tax breaks should sooner or later come to the people who lost their homes. [applause] >> let's get to audience questions. . go ahead. >> steve mentioned why was detroit different? >> i think just speak up a little bit into the microphone. >> steve asked how is detroit different trip from chicago and other major cities. and us being the motor city could you comment on the fact that gm and chrysler had to be rescued and how bi

for the city's 3500 or so cans. it's important to note that the system, the 311, doesn't distinguish between overflowing cans and illegal dumping. so this is representative of both. so if somebody on streets sees a bunch of trash around the streets and takes a picture and sends it to 311, it's somebody who has dumped trash around the can. >> can i ask a question if. >> absolutely. >> is the response the same to overflowing and illegal dumping. >> yes, response is the same. i think those requests go, actually, to our part of ecology and they are out there within, i believe, two hours. so we get to those pretty quick. so this is not a new problem. we have some photos. i was flipping through old annual reports and these are from 1968. since the city is so quick in picking up trash, people have kind of back to accept it. there's almost a perception that it's maid service for the city. so people dump their trash out there, it's gone within a few hours and people just doing it. so this has been a problem in the city for a

simple economics forced the city to shut it down. a move that's not sitting very well in the alameda firefighters local union. >> there are many fire stations that run throughout the country four calls a day. they're definitely essential to the neighborhoods that need them. >> the union city council did reach out to the community all summer long and all fall. there were' 30 community presentations. a city wide mailer was sent out as well and the city tried to respond to each and every inquiry. by the way the three other stations here in town are run by the alameda county fire department and the non firefighters today will be absorbed by the alameda county police department fire department. >>> time is 6:38 watching our commute what it's it look like? >> there are some slow spots there. i want to go to contra costa county frank not frank, dave and gasia. we have some slow traffic here coming up over the willow pass grade highway 24 is also getting crowded. it's looking rather typical at the bay bridge and still decent on interstate 880

the second highest in the city. and in district 9, there has been 16,930 cases in the same time frame. making it the area with the highest rates of reported illegal dumping. my office has been working with public works, recology, sfpd, the city attorney, to come up with solutions to stop people from putting their trash and debris on the streets and sidewalks. we had a safety in the public safety neighborhood services committee in march to address some of the concerns. and i'm excited to announce this new piece of legislation to address illegal dumping city-wide. our proposed legislation will redefine and expand the definition of illegal dumping, including what constitutes as one commercial waste, two, electronic waste, and prohibited materials. the legislation will also clarify the types of violations as well as add enforcement allowing public works employees designated in the police code to issue citations. at the moment, only sfpd may issue citations to the people caught in the act of illegal dumping. this creates

and there's plenty of elbow room for passengers on the final flights into the city. some fear repeat of the deadly outbreak of the sars virus which killed over 800 people in 2003. i think that is i'm really worried i'm really scared it will become the next ours that's why we all wear masks. others are less concerned. as a city often 11000000 people. just about 200 have been infected that's a very low percentage and the fatalities are all old people. all over china people are on the move to visit relatives over the lunar new year holidays it's one of the biggest annual movements of people in the world despite the lockdown of 100 it's likely that somewhere the coronavirus is traveling among them. aren't just talks a little bit more about this it's obvious from our science departments in 5 in 1st of all i mean just according to you. city the size of one hot it is a very drastic measure how does that work are people not allowed to leave their homes are there a border controls everywhere i mean how does that look for the people living there yes of course i'm not there but

i was born in the city, raised in the city and i was highly educated in the city. i was fortunate enough to be one of the first people not only in my family to go to college, but as well as in my whole neighborhood. it wasn't a lot of people trying to pursue higher education. we were confined in a certain type of mindset within our neighborhood to think that graduating college wasn't something that was possible. so you might -- imagine how i felt when being one of the first people to drop of college went to college. i had no hope. i do not have the happiness i felt right now seeing the niners going to the super bowl and knowing i am a a, -- college graduate. i was in a basement with some creative people cooking up one of the biggest independent films in the world right now, but also , i was at a place where i didn't know where i wanted to go fortunately, enough in my pursuit of a degree and graduating from st. mary's college in california, city college provided a crucial psychological class that st. mary's wanted $10,000 for. i couldn't afford that. i am saying all

we train to the city's expectations and we train to the diversity of the city, where we have more training courses on de-escalation, procedural justice than some other academies do within the state. and with that training we also, if you will shoot ourselves in the foot, we train our members and they get the experience within the city and county of san francisco. and other smaller agencies, c.r. officers as seasoned veterans, that they can lateral into their organizations and take the training that we provide our officers to their benefit within their organization, without having to expense those costs of that initial training. so we train our officers very well, which is appealing to other offices within the state. for that 64% of our police recruits pass the academy. once they get into the field training program, 82% of them complete the field training program. and then officers who have -- up to five years of service, 97% of them stay. and based on their staffing and employment, we're look at why. what is the why? why are people staying. with zero to five years in, you're talking about

we are deciding the future of the city. at the meetings i hope the public can ask questions directly to the planning department. why should san francisco establish more pdas? how are they arrived at? what are the im li the implications e state legislation that is supporting market rate development. although these areas for for planning purposes, the outcome has been very different. according to m.t.c., the planning documents the program provides financial support for planning processes seeking to intensify land uses and supports plans for the greatest potential for land use zoning and policy changes leading to new development. in na san francisco there is moe intensification of development. i have watched neighborhoods riverich in diversity and charar crushed. i am very concerned that pdas are furthering this process and finishing off the neighborhoods left. planning can be done without signing to the process. let's find out what is in the pill before swallowing it. >> next speaker. >> i am erica. i am a long term resident o

even if the city supports the proposed project, the space would be of benefit to the city. the project must have a project submitted to the city and if the city determined the project is desirable enough, requiring the project to provide at least one unit of housing on site to be eligible for the tua doesn't make sense. the commission's second recommendation was to clarify that retail under the section that describes the types of uses are allowed, should be restated to say retail sales and service. the eligible uses allowed under this site believe that the retail reference was actually supposed to be in reference to retail sales and service. however, there are retail categories of uses in the planning code that would not be desirable to be an active commercial space such as automobile manufacturing, things like that. i'm happy to answer any additional questions and that ends the commission's recommendations. thank you. >> thank you. audrey, can you put that map back up? so, i don't think the map is right. >> okay. let me grab my staff report and i can say out loud the distri

corps to the city. you can google it is. it is a program they've had in the east bay. and in l.a. put in am place. it takes at-risk inner city young men and puts them in a total wraparound program, of not just getting their emt license, but trauma counseling, life skills, stipend, so we're working with human rights commission and to put that -- and a nonprofit to put that in place. so we're hoping to get it off the ground this year to start with 10 or 15 young men in the first class. and then perhaps after that, if that is successful, we'd like do it for young women. they don't like to mix the two because of some of the trauma counseling and that kind of stuff, it's just not a good -- it was not a good fit. they tried that once and decided the way to go was separate. so -- but you can look that up. it's a successful program. they would be putting all the infrastructure in place here in the city for us and we'd probably be doing it in district 10, in bayview hunters point. let's see. we met with our labor friends, local 798 and we discussed -- we talked about budget and we have a lo

in addition, the city gets the entire building. the initial rent is about $48,125 per month or $66 per square foot. that was based on appraisal and review. and to be honest, that is below fair market rate. the city will pay an annual adjustment of 3%, plus utilities and services as they do now where they're currently at. we will be attempting to get the building onto sfpuc power, because we have the whole building and therefore we can do that. that will lower the rates, hopefully. the landlord is also responsible for security and putting in a card entry system. the landlord is giving us improvement allowance of $5,000 to use in the initial term. there is furniture and equipment left at the site. and rather than selling it, the landlord is willing to rent it to us for the entire term. at the end of the term, we can keep it. it's worth $100,000. that saves the city time and money not to have purchase desks for the new staff members and staff members that don't have desks at this time. that savings along with the tenant improvement al

in 2013, the city abruptly shifted gears. many received increases, including some as high as 300% of what they were previously paying. the tenants challenged the rent increases but the rent board ruled that the rent control law does not extend to midtown because the property is owned by the city. there are many issues to be resolved, including working out a longer term plan regarding the ownership and operation of midtown. thanks to organizing by the midtown tenant's association and allies, the city's original plan to demolish midtown is off the table. i look forward to working with all stakeholders to arrive at a long-term plan supported prints. supported by residents. but in the meantime, it's unacceptable for any to pay rent increases in publically-owned housing, higher than they would have faced if they lived across the street from their home and privately owned house. they deserve protection. i engaged the city attorney's office and i look forward to moving forward with this. >> thank you, supervisor p -rbgs preston. >> s

the men's restroom. there's a speaker box. prosit and city hall security will answer. please note the commission will be calling item seven and eight together. we are now on item two, president's report. >> thank you. i will be very brief. i simply wish to all of the public and all of my fellow commissioners and all of the staff at recreation and park a very happy holiday season. thank you. >> thank you for setting that great example for the general manager. [laughter] sorry, did i say that out loud? >> is there any public comment? public comment is closed. we are now on item three. general manager's report. >> i only have 37 items for you this morning, commissioners. >> thank you very much. [laughter] >> i too will extend a happy holiday and i'm so excited about this holiday season. i will share with you a wee bit what is happening in your department. got some good news to an 2019. the controller's office released its annual park maintenance standards this week which shows the parks were better maintained across the city over the past fiscal year with less disparity be

so when the city started urbanizing and more and more people moved here . land was reclaimed to accommodate them there was no space for us to fish the 1st ponds in the community were built there and in must of the. the ponds have wire mesh is at each entrance which keep out the garbage flowing from upstream the mangroves to act like a natural barrier. the difference is stark between the innkeeper lack water of the rest of the river and the lighter color of the ponds where the fish are thriving. it's fisherman like vinayak kohli who are making a difference at the grass roots. a long term solution however will be possible only once the miti is cleaned. the advantages of green havens are undeniable foxwoods and gardens give people food for physical activity relaxation or even an escape from the heat the spanish city of barcelona is taking action to create more resting places like this not only for people but also for insects and animals let's see how. cradle to between lush ills and the mediterranean sea barcelona is a spain's 2nd biggest city. millions of peop

we train to the city's expectations and we train to the diversity of the city, where we have more training courses on de-escalation, procedural justice than some other academies do within the state. and with that training we also, if you will shoot ourselves in the foot, we train our members and they get the experience within the city and county of san francisco. and other smaller agencies, c.r. officers as seasoned veterans, that they can lateral into their organizations and take the training that we provide our officers to their benefit within their organization, without having to expense those costs of that initial training. so we train our officers very well, which is appealing to other offices within the state. for that 64% of our police recruits pass the academy. once they get into the field training program, 82% of them complete the field training program. and then officers who have -- up to five years of service, 97% of them stay. and based on their staffing and employment, we're look at why. what is the why? why are people staying. with zero to five years in, you're talking about

is spreading across asia and beyond now the government has also advised inhabitants not to neves the city flights in trains out of a big shot down 17 people have died from the risk illness and more than 500 cases have been confirmed in china and handful of cases have also been reported in other asian countries as well as in the united states and chinese health authorities have confirmed human to human transmission. well he. joins me here in the studio to talk more about this good to see joel what more do we know about this particular strain of current virus at the moment well scientists are now telling us that they believe that the corona virus was 1st transmitted to humans from snakes now we know that it emanated out of a particular market in rwanda in china where they so live exotic animals and suspicion 1st centered on bats but chinese research is of just published a new paper where they conducted genetic research genetic sequencing and they found that snakes of the most likely source now what we don't know is how the virus moved from the snakes to humans and in any case it doesn't act

the city has added over the last few years. and specifically the new or better services the citizens are receiving from the 3,000 more f.t.e.s. i'd like to clarify departmental performance audits versus financial control audits. performance audits address the effectiveness of the city department in delivering services, financial control audits deal with financial controls. data wrangling was mentioned. data wrangling is certainly important and it falls under the category of a may-do requirement, but not a shall-do requirement. for the c.s.a. one of my favorite topics, being a former c.p.a., is risk-based auditing. risk-based auditing requires an enterprise risk analysis. once you identify the risk for the enterprise, in this case the city, you rank them highest to lowest. and then you allocate audit resources against major risks. it's that simple. i've been asking for the assessment many times, also when i was on the cgoboc. yet it's never been provided. thank you. >> thank you, mr. dratler. any other public comment? seeing non

one is some of the benefits that we receive as a city because of the existence of city college. in 2013, a year after the accreditation crisis hit the college, supervisor mar asked the budget and legislative analyst to evaluate city college's value to the entire city. the estimate was over $300 million in jobs training, skills training, and jobs for 2,400 faculty administrators and classified staff. the jobs attained by city college of san francisco graduates, state and federal grants, compared to for-profit two-year programs, each year city college gives tens of thousands of students an alternative to the predatory for-profit colleges, which charge up to 17 times more than a similar program offered at city college. i also just want to state why there's been conversation about this $2.7 million allocation being a band-aid and the reality is this is not a band-aid but bridge funding. if you look at the fact that the community higher education act is something we will push for to appear on the november 2020 ballot so that san franciscans can leverage funds from the community to pay

>> the city attorney said because of the charter you must. >> deputy city attorney ann pearson only the construction piece is exempted. the services related to contradiction aren't considered construction contract. those don't fall in that exception. >> i will stop. i am having a hard time conceptually understanding why one piece of the project, which is design, seems to be something where we don't rely on a departmental commission process. setting aside legal requirement what is is the right way to deal with this, the design has to come here but the construction which is larger doesn't. i will stop. i am done. thanks. >> thank you very much. so let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would like to move with a positive recommendation to take without objection thank you very much. i think we have time for one more item. please call item 4. resolution declaring intent of city to reimburse future bonds and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to submission docum