the first time in u.s. history the federal government can go after corrupt police departments. the two options available, sue the city with a civil rights lawsuit, which could bankrupt it or enter into a consent decree. the city must make the reforms that the department of justice mandate. making the reforms that the justice department mandates can be expensive, costing more than 100 million. in the past two decades more than 20 cities entered into the decree, and include big cities like new orleans. the results are mixed. raising the question is the cost of reforming the nation's broken police departments too high? our next guest says maybe. steven is a law professor, writing a book called the answer to police misconduct and expert in how effective the department of justice is when it comes to reforming american police departments. good to see you. thank you for being with us. you state this 1994 law is remarkable. before it the federal government didn't have the power or jurisdiction to step in when a police force couldn't govern itself properly. there are a lot of asterisk and busts along with that accommodation. >> that's right. thank you for having me. i think everything you said so far is spot on. this

pg and e is also trying to make the city pay for existing facilities the city already paid for years ago. if the city is forced to agree to the terms it will allow pg and e to export taxpayer dollars. last year there was a complaint filed thatologed pg and e unreasonable denied service to the city. it urges our state and federal representatives to express support. i want to thank cosponsors supervisor breed, compose, coen, kim, mar and wiener for your support as well. that will be going to the next weeks board meeting. the next item i have for introduction is a ordinance to better regulate political committees that encourage someone who is not yet a official candidate to run for office. the ethics commission approved this ordinance back in 2012 in the wake of the run edrun campaign. there were 2 different committees that encouraged edlee to run for mayor. one of which was registered as a primarily formed committee and registered undeer the less rigierly regialated general purpose committee. it was named progress for all and didn't name edlee as a potential candidate. this ordinance requires thes

leadership i'm independ for all their work and insure the delivery of a world-class mime for the city and county of san francisco for the bay area right in the city for the next 3 years we further thank the city for the board of trustees and staff working to work on a crown jewel for that i thank john updyke very, very much and thank my partners particularly shawn and christine as chairman for the past two years going into the thirds year i want to talk about the leaps and bounds for the organization and the new building project of which you'll hear from my colleagues in a few minutes in closing, i want to share two significant accomplishment to date one is the naming of the rockefeller gallery and wrosht whose the truest of our board with the board collection in mexican and pledged to raise and now provided fund for $3 million for the gallery in addition i'm pleased to report the naming of the gallery through his daughter who also are taking part in the advisory board this money assembly has pledged to raise the $3 million in honor of her late father thank you for your time and favorably moving this forward with the long term lease and thank you

the time in inform prepare this guess a hearing i asked and called for to review and discuss recommendations for the city's reports for the portfolio we'll deliver the best outcomes for the homeless population and the city the first report we'll review a report i requested earlier in the year release in january that examines the variations and the city programs citywide for the focus on the master lease in a review of the contracts to identify and look at the assessment experience and outcomes it provides recommendations as we as a city need to look at the cost and support of housing and highway patrol to eventually move out of housing and other housing opportunities this happened last year the second report the auditor report on the support portfolio and their characteristics services and public health care utilization and ultimately climate report has recommendation in could he areas i looked to exploring my office look at the service provisions and effectiveness and administration and program goals again, i time to thank everyone who has put the reports together to our dph and other staff members and department heads and my office with that, no other comments we'll get this hearing started fires i'd

of the material caltrain is forever the owner of the materials the city may need to sign a manifest as the project sponsor to have some ability to track you know how the project is initiated by the city but caltrain it the owner of the material and the city has to sign a mapping festive we transport to the location. >> so caltrain may get to reinforce the caltrain authority. >> we had some hope we'll be able to partner with them for the total of it because they laid material there 5 or 10 years ago and in the ends they feel like that project is independent of f this is the city's responsibility because we're disturbing the material in order to build the ramp even though officially that's their ramp we're the ones causing the ramp to be rebuilt and the materiality to be disturbed so on behalf of ocii we're going to need to dispose of it not caltrain. >> i said what caltrain is saying that's net necessarily the right thing to do are we giving up anything. >> we asked the same questions and brought it up to the caltrain and they felt that because the material you know reflects some of the contamination in the other parts of site this cough happened as part of the approach but when they

the 1.25 the reality the $3. million will come in like that with the city worker raises that the city workers represented by 26 unit including sciu 1021 and 4 thousand workers the reality is that, of course city workers make you know much more of a living go wage and have great benefits and our nonprofit workers should have it, too it's a total inequality another point i want to bring up again private contractors with the city have those awkward increases from the contract and payroll some have a calculation ♪ there to have a for profit in the contract so this is a complete enequality between the nonprofits and the for profits contractors and the reality is the work percentage your members do they serve the hotels and help people find houshdz they're open the front lines of the constitutional rights and our workers what we see our workers really struggling and having to have longer than and longer than consultant time and not being able to support they are families and trying to go and find other work that is hurting the residents of the city so this is not a lot of money this shouldn't be a big thing this is what

about a while ago, the cost of reforming police departments, these are not part of these costs, additional costs, how many case is the city dealing with? how much could it cost the city? >> the city is facing a very high number. four settlements averaging $22 million that's just four cases. there are other lawsuits that are going to be filed. and the d.a. in brooklyn is review other cases. there are families that are filing lawsuits. so it is staring at a big cost to this. >> we are not talking about tens but hundreds of millions of dollars of settlement. >> it's possible. >> mary snow thank you. >> in the wake of the murder of someone by political opponent boris nemtsov in the shade salad owe of shadow ofthe kremlin? our special coverage of the new cold war continues tomorrow night, when i speak with one of putin's top political opponents and the battle waging over ukraine. that's our show today, i'm ali us. night. >>> you know that old riddle that begins when a tree falls in a forest? it's worth noting since single sex education at the college level has been slowly disappearing. the sweet briar college case is just the latest. it's not over yet. it's an uphill batt

the the city economically, but also the work force. at that time we are also learning about the anticoffs the accreding commission for the junior colleges, but we also focused on the importance of city college as a economic driver and helping people out of pover ety in the city. we stood up to [inaudible] from english classes. english learners need and rely on city college. non credit and skill building technology class jz other courses while they don't always lead to a degree gives san franciscans the skill and job and profession develop needed. that is what st. is about reflecting the cities needs. in our bijt and legislative analyst office report in 2013 we quantifyed the econom ic impact of city college is more than 300 million kls annually to the city. 2 years later a trial brought by the city attorney demonstrated that city college was not given a fair hearing and the accredters broke the law. the schools finances are stabilized for the time being and a turn around in state funding with prop 30 and the college has a significant reserve and the publicly elected board of strust ease has been displaced in a highly questionable process and expected to be partially reinstated again

the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the citythe city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they

submitted to the mayor by december 31st then in terms of background one of the rules and function of the city and county of san francisco is to maintain and improve the infrastructure of the city those projects can range from projects as small as a muni bus stherltd to a transbay terminal the vast projects are need for the improvement of the transportation to help the city's economic to help the city collectively excuse me. grow infrastructure projects have an environmental review on the project area with the economic impacts from a project - while the economic impacts can't be mitigated san francisco has not developed a consistent set of criteria in understanding had a environmental impact report there is no set to trigger or statement the change in economic activity in a specified area of specified projects there's currently a private investment boom this is take place in san francisco and there are part of the city where the public and private projects are curling excuse me. i left off a line those two promotions happening at the same time are also causing an overlay of economic impact to the business community so we'll conduct a series of hearing with the public works comm

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 approved

the the adaptation of the draft to allow the mayors initiatives to get implemented nevertheless, the time set back our city is troishg jobs and brangz resources but putting pursue on your housing stock the city needs to produce between 4 and 5 thousand unit and more for the existing deficit it is inlikely and reduce the neighborhood planning in maishgd and on that are producing the visit majority on one plan in process we want the planning department to start planning to expand the long term housing in the city the second to making sure make it easy for neighbors to have the existing units this is one of the ways to audio homes supervisor wiener is

absorbing the high costs and in many cases not on there since 2007 or 8 for the city's nonprofits organizations because the funding amazed to a reduction for those nonprofits negatively impacting our city's safety net and the finance that don't think them and the workers that serve those organizations for the nonprofit for profit contractors in the city they receive annually increases i could to the cip or increases of 3 percent of more this is about parity for the nonprofits compared to the for profit contractors with the city that receive those annual increases until 2013, the nonprofit contractors had not received a cost of doing business since 2007 or 8 it's about parity and entity for our nonprofit organizations in the fiscal year 2014-2015 our budget included fund revenues for the generosity responsible to promote 1.5 percent increase for the nonprofit organizations that was much needed but as people came to the board meetings to saying they can't survive on that and the slogan by many i totally agree having been a nonprofit worker over thirty years ago running agencies if the city as well the 2014-2015 budget included a raids increase that was 2.3 percent for the city and county a

reviewed by the california court of appeals if the court rules it is valid the conclusion in the adu democrat and the city acts as it's on risk before the adequacy of the eir is determined the city should refrain from relying on an eir as a review of the building inspection of the 2014 until the proceedings are commit my letter of comment was included from the agenda so that no one know about the objections or acting on your own risk and the environmental impact report requires a 72 heirs notice of the documents submitted to the bodies that relate to the matter you can't act on this unless you correct the amendment. >> thank you to the sdafks city attorney's office can you speak on that. >> the board can act on the notice that was provided any members of the public they can submit the notice but the meeting was appropriate and the planning commission submission to the board was adequate. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm the chair for the coalition land use and transportation committee i'd like to read a resolution as roved urging the board of supervisors not to paragraph the elements and to not recommend the 2013 beca

the transportation in this part of the city is rather poor. it's crowded, slow and unreliable and we believe that the extension would be a tremendous benefit, both to the nearest part of the city and to the city as a whole as we build a rapid transit system for san francisco. we urge your support of this allocation of funds to get this study started. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is bruce ago /et. i'm active in the community as a transportation rep for the south beach neighborhood association. i'm also involved in many other community and transportation advocacy efforts. i support the subway work and at this time, /spefpbgly the initial study. this study is critical for several reasons. first, the north eastern neighborhoods are essentially cut off from the rest of the city and the rest of the city is essentially cut off from the northeastern neighbors. there's many reasons why this study makes sense. it will begin to identify the overall benefits and costs. if this study determines there's a strong case for an extension, it will label two critical next steps. first, to revise the f t cma board and the site that re/srerts ba

debarred and that's a bit harsh it seems like this will allow the city upon the recommendation to go after the worse violators if you had a city contractor laundering money to a campaign i would think the city process and you think the city officials will seek the department in that situation but to have it for the minor violation is not good. >> thank you item 6 is slate marital finding. >> thank you, commissioners this proposal this idea concerns slate motivators those mailers you get every election season which support or opposite 4 or more candidates and are affiliated with participant where the candidates or measures are paying to appear on those mailers and sometimes not theirs subject to their own disclaimer rules impose by the state and technically state organizations and as such file their campaign statements discoloring money in and out with the secretary of state and file copies of their reports with the department of elections so this is just sort of a technical change that requires the slate of our mailers instead of filing them with the other agency to file them with the ethics commission so this is a one-stop sh

the city will present the final plan and the construction is set to start at the end of next winter and the start of spring and go through the rest of the year. >> i think the city is changing and the center city building ups the area and it brings people into the city from the suburbs and definitely bring commerce to the city as well. >> the city would like to hear law think head to our website where we have a link. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >>> in bridgeton new jersey some student his a chance to make an imprint on the school. they signed their name to a beam that will be part of an addition it includes a new gym and classrooms and increases the capacity by 200 students. >>> and manufacturers in the garden state displayed their wares today. it was part of made in new jersey day, 25 manufacturers showed off their products and we have a chance to talk to lawmakers and the public about their business. >>> chance for people to pay tribute to an eagles legend there was a private memorial tomorrow and he died early saturday morning and he excelled on both sides of football and jeffrey lurie calls him an icon. >> everything you want for an nfl franchise,

arming our city vehicles with black boxes we're having a hearing on that on that for the report that's been developed and i'm hoping to have follow up legislation to have the the city the city be 100 percent armed. i believe the state puc might already have that, so that could be, again, you know, it's these little things for for me that make a difference in the long run and maybe other state vehicle divisions would have vehicles made to follow suit. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> thanks miss breen for working with our office i really appreciate your work. you mentioned the state association of counties and the the california league of cities -- are they going to raise awareness of our bay area legislation? >> i sit on the public works committee of the league and i've found there's not a a you a u.n. imity of opinion and i think at least at the outset it sounds like it appears their focus is really on identifying funding and reinvestment in the state's transportation system particularly with a focus on highways and our task is to bring into those forums an awareness we all need that investment but how can we work together to to weave that message -- i wouldn't say that

the the adaptation of the draft to allow the mayors initiatives to get implemented nevertheless, the time set back our city is troishg jobs and brangz resources but putting pursue on your housing stock the cityds to produce between 4 and 5 thousand unit and more for the existing deficit it is inlikely and reduce the neighborhood planning in maishgd and on that are producing the visit majority on one plan in process we want the planning department to start planning to expand the long term housing in the city the second to making sure make it easy for neighbors to have the existing units this is one of the ways to audio homes supervisor wiener is doing an excellent job we think we should continue to grow the effort and third the launching of middle-income housing we need to meet the needs and focus on experiments to produce for housing like student housing and conversion of underutilized hotels and other mike units two more things reject the idea of metering those are a misguided strategy and focus on the maximizing affordable housing and to fix the process and make that less expensive and get approval to add housing. >> thank you very much. next speaker. and president of the western central c

attention to what jesse was doing and to what jesse did because the city had been pretty much destroyed from the downtown area to the waterfront. the city was busy trying to rebuild and trying to figure out how to get back on its feet again. what was happening in a poor section of the city, it was a localized story. people didn't pay too much attention to children being abused by other children. it was more important to rebuild stores places for people to work. it was more important to get back the city and getting the economy started up again. suggest a kind of went by the wayside if you will. it was easy for him to do what he did because no one really paid attention to him. >> you also mentioned that some people wanted to study jesse to figure out why he did this. and not being executed in living for so much longer did anyone get a chance to talk to him? >> no. you had a couple of doctors who tried hard to study him. you have the occasional doctors in the trial period to figure out what to do with him. he was in prison for over 50 years. people would make more for point to study him he would think that you have the occasional doctor w