the 1850s and 1870s, these were time periods when there were large numbers of native people in the city. in terms of my work though, i want to span the entire 19th century from the beginnings of the city as the federal city and even come up into and through the 20th century. one of the things i'm going to do here at the library is thinking about how to book end the project. there's a wealth of great material, but finding a way to present it in a coherent fashion with a logical beginning and ending points is going to be something that i need to grapple with a little bit. >> how did the presence of native americans change washington? are there remnants of their presence today? >> yeah. so that's a really good question. and one of the things that i want to focus on in particular in this project is the -- sort of the tension between the commemorative and symbolic representations of native people and the lived experiences of native people in the city. so if we want to think about representations, the stories are written all over the walls in the capitol building, the rotunda features relieves over each door representing moments of indinl nous history. there are historic paintings in the ro

the is the new south whaels police, the state police announced operation hammer head. it's going to be a three week program of increased police surveillance and intense policing activities throughout the city. the city of 4 million people. in particular police presence will be seen in places like the opera house, the harbor, other places where people congregate and elements of transportation. the idea with the heightened police presence, it will make people feel safer. in the wake of what happened, this city is edgy and anxious hoping there isn't going to be a copy cat situation or another lone wolf as was the case with man her roan man nice. everyone is deeply concerned about what happened. people here -- many of them know the two victims katrina dawson and tori johnson. i've spoken to friends of katrina today. she's remembered as a wonderful

the selma plan as well as the developments of developments in the pipeline as we look at the nonprofit facilities and how to maintain that as part of our neighborhood and the city's fabric throughout the city particularly for our anyhow vulnerable and low income that makes our city vibrant a second on the hearing of the uniform rules that are being proposed i am sorry and human serves the current reality in our shelter system was designed for temporary relieve for families of financial distress today 50 percent state they've got a disabling condition and 1/5th or citizens they can't have their issues alternated two ways to continue to protect the status quo and deny the services that can't be inadequately served or two to transform the system as colleagues have heard me talk about after spending a invite in one of the shelters i was stunned by the number of individuals that were sitting down older or citizens and also by the number of individuals that had physical or mental disabilities since that time i've been working with dpw to collect the information and pushing for example, for a medicine respite we can add the people that are chronicling homelessness i've heard fromur

city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally appr

the transbay redevelopment area. there is no fiscal impact to the city in this transaction. the city will not be a party to the loan and it is not an owner of any of the property at issue. however since the city is a party to a 2003 cooperative agreement made with caltrans which transferred certain sfait-owned properties in the area to the city and tjpa and since the city is a party to the board-approved 2008 option agreement for the purchase and sale of those properties, including state-owned property own you had by the city, tjpa and the san francisco redevelopment agency, agency, pars3 now ocii the city has to approve any amendment to any agreement including the option agreement. the city does not incur any indebtedness or approve the structure of the tjpa loan. rather it approves certain conditions which allow tjpa to move forward to obtain the interim financing and the loan it needs to allow the transbay center project to continue construction. the proposed resolution authorizes the director of property to execute the first amendment which permits, among other things, ocii to su

infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed lee accountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation director in a city and

that i wanted someone who had the strategic ability to look at systems, and improve them, and help us strategically place our department in the larger context of the city, city family and the city agencies, and non-profits and partners. and jennifer rose to the top very quickly. and frankly i was not sure she wanted the job when i started and when she told me she might be interested, i was thrilled, we did an extensive interview process and jennifer was the number one pick for all of the people on the interview panel and i was so pleased when she said yes and i hope that she feels pleased about her decision. and she has had quite a lot on her plate, the last month or so. so with that, i am going to let her say a few words to you, come on up, jennifer. >> thank you, thank you, director raphael and commissioners i am very excited to be here and this is a good challenge for me and i am looking forward to working with you all and director and the rest of the department to move us forward. one of the first things that i have been doing is getting my head around the budget process and our budget and what our programs need, and for the next fiscal year, and so joe

the height. i know the settlement agreement we can argue we can go on and on about that but the bottom line it's a private agreement. they are free to go to court. the city the city should be a party to it. the city is not a party to it therefore the city can't enforce it. none of these rise to the level of substantial evidence. based on sequa and 16 b 6 you would have to find there's absolutely no substantial evidence in the record you have to find this document document as adequate and you should deny the appeal. thank you very much. >> seeing no questions for the project sponsors, i'd like to invite any members of the public who are supporting -- sdmroo >> i'm sorry i think i have 3 minutes and some seconds remaining. >> good afternoon madam president and supervisors i was hoping to get out of talking but do i have 7 and a half minutes? >> you have 3 minutes remaining. >> there's a long history to this project i'm looking forward to it being over. i think it's very unfortunately it's come back to this body and that the appellant continues to persist after so many complaints all of which have been addressed it's very frustrating for me as the architect for this

the height. i know the settlement agreement we can argue we can go on and on about that but the bottom line it's a private agreement. they are free to go to court. the city the city should be a party to it. the city is not a party to it therefore the city can't enforce it. none of these rise to the level of substantial evidence. based on sequa and 16 b 6 you would have to find there's absolutely no substantial evidence in the record you have to find this document document as adequate and you should deny the appeal. thank you very much. >> seeing no questions for the project sponsors, i'd like to invite any members of the public who are supporting -- sdmroo >> i'm sorry i think i have 3 minutes and some seconds remaining. >>

wifi projects in the 32 different parks and open spaces throughout the city delivered to the city with a gift in kind with a five-year maintenance program and no strings attached and we are lucky to partner with google and sf city and all of the work that they are doing throughout san francisco and this is a great testament to the projects here that will deliver the real results to the residents of our city and that will make a difference to everyone living in our neighborhoods which this is all about. to the person, or to the family, that use our parks that sun bathe on the lawn when it is sunny in san francisco or at our ball fields and it helps them get on the phone and surf the internet or e-mail when they need to more important than that, is the tender loin rec center has free wi-fi to be able to enable the staff to conduct the operation and able to communicate in the department and sign up the children in the leaks on the internet that they did not have access to before, and the community groups and the people from the neighborhood that perhaps did not have wi-fi access wher

the success of the small businesses in the western edition as well spreading the misconduct to all the neighborhoods in the city not centered downtown and i'm going to introduce tourists to other parts of city that we wouldn't have experienced one example is on embarcadero street a couple said going to eddy's for breakfast they returned to eddy's there after without home sharing we wouldn't have been able to share your guests will milestone like a couple becoming engaged honey murndz and first visits for grandparent and marathoners and families going home after a successful surgery supervisor chiu said at a recent meeting no, i shouldn't - supervisor chiu said he was initially opposed to the idea of home sharing until he heard how it helps people stay in the homes in our city city of meant a lot to me to be a participant to speak on protective that changes that will have a tremendously positive and life changing folk for home sharers across the city we thank commissioner hur for peterson thank you to supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor tang and especially supervisor wiener who chaired the land use committee thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all (clapping). >> again there are so

program and it was really does mayors sense then city administers of the importance of the infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed lee accountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation director in a city and the mayor comes and brings together with $3 billion to invest in the transportation city it doesn't get much better than that fortunately i don't think he's on the market we're happy he's our mayor please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you for that kind introduction everyone good morning. welcome to san francisco. >> good morning. >> actually, the last couple of weeks ago people have being coming up to me and saying are you i say yes, sir. i'

that any information in the equal pay report protected by the right to privacy under the constitution of the united states will be protected by the city it is the practice of the city attorney's office but we want to

but it was interesting to note the sort of the immediate -- the prime minister going to the city, the army cityding to the city. they have called for an all-parties conference tomorrow. i think one of the problems in pakistan has been there has been sort of a haphazard and half hearted attempt to tackle violent extremism. this is a country with a deep and come met relationship to faith in the public sphere, and a lot of politicians have struggled with that. and because of that struggle, new challenges have kept emerging. we have had the decentering of the blasphemy law as a major point of reference in our culture, where you can use the blasphemy law at anytime to settle scores and have people killed. that's one example of a broader core relationship with violent extremism, that emanates from religious faith that has become now, i mean with this attack -- and obviously just the horrifying images and -- you don't even need an image just -- i have three kids, all day all i could think, and all i'm thinking now is the parents standing outside hoping that their kids were going to be okay. this is a

the 1850s and 1870s, these were time periods when there were large numbers of native people in the city. in terms of my work though, i want to span the entire 19th century from the beginnings of the cityas the federal city and even come up into and through the 20th century. one of the things i'm going to do here at the library is thinking about how to book end the project. there's a wealth of great material, but finding a way to present it in a coherent fashion with a logical beginning and ending points is going to be something that i need to grapple with a little bit. >> how did the presence of native americans change washington? are there remnants of their presence today? >> yeah. so that's a really good question. and one of the things that i want to focus on in particular in this project is the -- sort of the tension between the commemorative and symbolic representations of native people and the lived experiences of native people in the city. so if we want to think about representations, the stories are written all over the walls in the capitol building, the rotunda features relieves over each door representing moments of indinl nous history. there are historic paintings in the rot

as long as the rents are coming in, okay, you have more taxpayers there and the city gets the profits, doubles its profits by building double the size of the building. so the city profits. candidate banks profit? of course, because they're loaning money to the city and the city is deep in debt, but it knows, the city does, the banks feel that the city can pay off the debt, because the real estate market copes going up and up and up and up. you know the erving berlin song "blue skies"? it's always going to be blue skies. so when it hits, the banks call in their loans, the banks go under, but so did the city. and new york city is officially bankrupt. so that's the thing that powers this. it's powered by an idea. confidence. there would be those who would say new york is overbuilt. then the next day there would be articles contesting that whole idea -- this city can never be overbuilt. it's a growth-driven place. it always has been. >> thanks a lot. you talked about the fact that no one expected the depression to come. >> well, some people, you know, their profits only when it comes. >> my question is, among your characters, were there any who were, sort of like t

that any information in the equal pay report protected by the right to privacy under the constitution of the united states will be protected by the city it is the practice of the city attorney's office but we want to codify that to apply the final points my understanding supervisor tang st. is going to release a couple of amendment to the board of supervisors i think there is nothing in this motion this ordinance that precludes that from happening but a need for clarity i'm happy to do that but the second amendment as i understand an amendment to increase the threshold from $50,000 to $100,000 for entities that receive city grants i'm going to speak against that amendment for a number of reasons one because i believe that we have yet to fully understand the indications we're talking about few institutions that will be covered by this ordinance and doubling the threshold would have severe impacts in terms of who is covered by this requirement the second point i think if we have to respect the process that's been followed we'll have legislation that was introduced several weeks ago we had a hearing at the commission on the status of women no amendments were offered a

on the implementation of greenfinancesf for residential properties that qualify for property assessed clean energy financing in the city and county of san francisco. resolution authorizing the city and county of san francisco to join the californiafirst program; authorizing the california statewide communities development authority to accept applications from property owners, conduct contractual assessment proceedings, and levy contractual assessments within the territory of the city and county; and authorizing related actions as defined in the resolution. resolution consenting to the inclusion of properties within the city's jurisdiction in the california home energy renovation opportunity program to finance distributed generation renewable energy sources, energy and water efficiency improvements, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and approving the amendment to a certain joint powers agreement related thereto. >> thank you, madam clerk, so in front of us today we have a hearing which will be relatively short and two resolutions that i am co-responsering with mayor lee, to restart, degree ssf, we approved the legislation to have the department of the environment to t

the pensions promised in the charter and supported by the memorandum of understanding negotiated by the many unions representing the city employees, the guarantee is in the full credit of the city. of the city must pay regardless of what we do with investments. that's the big guarantee. our investment performance, it will affect the contributions, the incremental contributions of active members including employees who work here and it will affect it some day regardless of what happens to the lawsuit that is pending. i will go back to the issue about commissioner bridges asking for more time because the opportunity to vet any of these new mixes to come out of it. we have to take the time in terms of not changing, consequences of not changing the allocation mix. one member of the audience did talk about it. if the stock prices are too high right now, there is a change. we have other ways of doing it in the short-term. the members are asking for more time. now this takes the number of mixes north of 20 and we need a very clear discussion about liquidity because this takes us into a more liquid area. i don't think it's wise. there has been other statements and many e-mails that you

city today to present their proposal to bring the summer olympics to the bay area in 2024. four u.s. cities are in the running, san francisco, los angeles, boston and washington, dc. this up to the u.s. committee to select a city that will enter the national competition. in 2016 they will narrow it to four cities and make a final decision in 2017. the last time an american city hosted the summer olympics was 1996 in atlanta. recently the international committee changed rules and reduced the cost of submitting a bid. it also encouraged cities to use existing or temporary facilities instead of building new ones. the committee also voted to allow the host city to use regional facilities outside city limits. analysts say this gives the bay area an advantage since san francisco bid will also include venues in oakland, santa clara, berkeley and palo alto. the bay area's reputation for political activism, however, might put that bid at a disadvantage especially with all we've had going on lately as some olympic committee members would shy away from any possible disruption of the games and tori, one of the things i noticed is when we were growing up building new facilities for the olympics was just what we expected an

provides emergency benefits i can talk to people off-line the buses operate all over the city and have a preference for the northern part of the city but operate all over the city. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> this is an interesting discussion the extension of the t line and the third phase is a kickoff to broaden our transportation system in san francisco i'm happy to sit in on the comments i am supportive of the tuitions of the discussion i want to start with the comprehensive that's it is 2, 3, 4 berlin or any of the cities like new york that successfully operates older yet also expand lower grade systems i'm looking for a prioritization of areas of where we're also expecting as to whether or not in the end this is the beginning point of an capacity system i'm not here to say that i'm asking for more comprehensive evaluation than just using today's thoughts and just so to speak about one small piece of the citywide system that piece will be high appropriate i want to see a boarder discussion i'm not prepared to the going get into another yearlong fight of what doesn't work i think you'll get support if a large sector of t

. >> as shown in table 3 on page 71 of our report if the city decides to terminate the agreement prior to the city's acquisition to the site, the city could be liable to pay the developer up to $8,322,000 in damages. on page 73 of our report we note that in addition to the $326.7 million project costs, the office of public finance notes there will be additional if furniture fixture and equipment moving and department of technology costs to complete and occupy a city-owned building that would result in total project cost of $338 million. the sources of funding would be the 1,250,000 which was previously appropriated by the board of supervisors and authorized an 83,100,000. on page 77 of our report we state that because the future commitment of significant city funds, because of that significant expenditure the budget and legislative analyst considers approval of the proposed ordinance authorizing the conditional land acquisition to be a policy matte for the board of supervisors. according to mr. updike if the board of supervisors does not approve the proposed ordinances the city would likely lose the

the city. it's not only the city. naturally, we're talking about the city tonight. our nation's police have been called into question by the mayor and other legislators and political figures around this country over the twlooft months over two incidents. millions of arrest as year and they're talking about two incidents. they turned this entire country, their entire police in this country into racists and i agree with the federal law enforcement association, the office that said, if this was handled differently up front, that probably wouldn't have happened today. nobody would have the courage to do what they did. >> all right. commissioner bernie kerik is going to stay with us for much of the time this evening. our continuing coverage of the execution-style shooting of two nypd police officers, and new details about the shooter, next. stay with us. >>> two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation. they were, quite simply, assassinated. targeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of this city

the long standing policy, the transportation joins with the san francisco transportation authority and other city agencies in thanking the voters of san francisco for supporting much-needed investment in our city's local and regional transportation system. we look forward to rolling up our sleeves to help to deliver the improvements that will support our city's visioner zero, to drive the traffic fatalities to zero and, that will support reliability and improve traffic management and in the bikes and the walking grass across the city, in order to assure, broad based benefits i have also been seeking the sfmta assurance that will apply to the equity policy and analysis to propositions a and b, programs and i am hopeful that it will be supported i have actually called for a meeting or a hearing at the board of supervisors, to cover that very topic. election night marked another major milestone for transportation in our city and it was 25 years ago, this november, that voters approved the first half cent tax known as proposition b and also created the transportation authority to administer the program and the local transportation sales tax that was reauthorized in three and renamed, proposition k,

cities, the disparity twin whites and minorities in cities, the bifurcation between the two in citiesis is coming together in boston, new york city, and chicago. >> right there in the center of town they were laying down in the street they were peaceful but they were angry and they were resentful and it points to the great white on cities here and also in other parts of the world where muslim immigrants are having the same problems that african americans and latinos are seeing, all over the world they don't get equal justice when it comes to policing and the police are there to protect people. to make them feel safe and to protect their rights and most of us feel that way and times square last night, whites are saying yay nypd you do it. but blacks say i know it works for you but not for us. and a mom in new york city when he goes out to get milk i don't know if he's coming back at night, not because a thug is going to get him but because a thupoliceman is going to get hi. >> a policing training cannot be as good their policing cannot be as diverse. why do these problems persist in th

is a need for a rapid transit route for the transand muni buses and also a need for bus routes and connectivity and we continue to work with the city and the city of brisbain and we want to address the issues and the concerns of the little hollywood, and the visitation valley area who are looking to see if we might be able to explore the different ways to work with the neighbors to the south and the rocology site to find the optimum bruding through the area. >> on the brt, the bus, ra pit transit project, we want to congratulate the board for approving legislation, for that project, and last week, the legislation dedicated the bus only lanes on van ness avenue and consolidated several bus stops and it adds to the term and reconfigures the parking to support the project and we always appreciate the great staff works that leads to a smooth out come and a smooth approval process and i want to recognize the sfmta out reach team, led by candice and her team, and the work of the two agencies to insure that there was a strong notification and understanding of the changes. and it was great to see it come. >> and it will reach the 65 percent, design mil

the city. it's not only the city. naturally, we're talking about the city tonight. our nation's police have been called into question by the mayor and other legislators and political figures around this country over the twlooft months over two incidents. millions of arrest as year and they're talking about two incidents. they turned this entire country, their entire police in this country into racists and i agree with the federal law enforcement association, the office that said, if this was handled differently up front, that probably wouldn't have happened today. nobody would have the courage to do what they did. >> all right. commissioner bernie kerik is going to stay with us for much of the time this evening. our continuing coverage of the execution-style shooting of two nypd police officers, and new details about the shooter, next. stay with us. in the nation, misfortune doesn't take a holiday. add brand new belongings from nationwide and we'll replace stolen or destroyed items with brand-new versions. join the nation ♪ nationwide is on your side you never dwell

so beyond the city bids out it's serviced why not allow pg&e and the puc to bid for the contract, if you will, to supply the power we don't understand why you feel it is necessary for the city to simply mandate you'll take power from the city if we find it to do so we have serious problems with it supervisor and we have problems with the fact if you're going to go into a building that is a one hundred square feet we we have a city tenant that's 10 thousand one square feet it allows the sfpuc to do a power spilling that to the building we that as mature consent and agreement we don't understand why the city feels it has to take over thirty this situation and mandate if you will, and mandate a private developer and private property owner must take hetch hetchy power we object. >> thank you, ms. workman. >> good afternoon dee dee workman from the chamber of commerce we appreciate the opportunity we were given to meet with the puc staff to discuss the tint legislation, however, we continued to have concerns had or over the legislation the charming charm is supporting the consumer choice but we obituary those only from a municipal sour or source we understand it gives the city t