but the decline has been in the two-unit bypasses. >> co-chair kim: and so these spikes really were justn the two-unit condominiums. that were maybe backlogged over the last several years. but thanks to efficiencies that you had put in place in dpw were able to kind of fast track. >> without looking really close at them, i'd

we have a co-op on the island. we call it the island lobsterman's association. i sell to the co-op. and right now, we're catching mostly shedders. shedders aren't as valuable as the hard-shell. the price is around $3 a pound. later in september, the price will drop a little bit more simply because there are more lobsters being caught, and a lot of the seasonal places that serve lobsters are closing down that time of year. c-span: so if you're a lobster eater in this country, what's the best time to -- when you go into a restaurant, to order a lobster, and what's the worst time? >> guest: all right. well, pound for pound, or dollar for pound, you're better off eating a hard-shell lobster i think in the wintertime. it's more expensive then. lobster's more expensive because they're less abundant because of weather and season. there aren't as many people fishing. so it's more expensive, but the lobster is really packed into the shell, so you're getting more for your money. personally, i prefer shedders. i like the soft-shell lobster. if i'm eating them, which would be at home, i wouldn't

my name is martha knudsen the co-chair of the lgbt democratic chair and joined by my profess co-chair and fell board member neilson. i want to thank supervisor farrell for authoring this legislation and voice support of the legislation on behalf of the entire board of the alice b. tokelis lgbt club. this is an important legislation until the federal government recognizes same-sex couples and marriage equality. on a personal note as a city employee whose same-sex spouse was covered by my health benefits for the past nine years, i paid this for nine years. what that meant is my income was reported as -- my income a little bit over $300 every pay period was increased and it's not reported as null income and social security. or medicare or for the retirement board. so it's not actually reported. i am proud of my 27-year relationship with my spouse. and i have always presented it publicly, whether it was registering as a domestic partner or getting married in a civil ceremony. yet because i sought to insure her i was punished and forced to pay higher taxes than i should v. we urge full sup

the numerous e-mails i sent keller this but i believe we should rethink this issue if the sponsor the co-sponsor of this idea i suggest that they read the letter that harvey milk sent to president carter defended jim jones who we know killed a lot of folks. i also believe that this should go forward consider the fact that dan white did not kill harvey milk because he has gay are that i also suggest that harvey milk out a man against his wishes this too should nullify him from being put on f f o. i also suggest we find another person to put on f f a to honor homosexuals. and there's several countries that still hold homosexuals as criminals. >> thank you next speaker please. >> hi. i'm going to use the offer head. the library is not properly taken care of basic and continues to did he enthuse books. at the last meeting there was approved a budget of zero increase in adult books, zero increase in children's and teens books. there was a small increase in the periodicals. we also heard at the last library commission that ebook reading is about 5 percent of the overall occur levitation. the l

. >> good afternoon a anna flores the co-director of muhas. so we wanted to touch a little bit on the decline or the decrease of calls to the police to domestic violence because a lot of it due to the political climate that is happening. we know when a woman is afraid to call the police, it increases the level of violence in the home and a lot of this is due because of the policy of secure communities where women are afraid to call the police, but luckily we have been able to work directly with the d.a.'s office and have a legal advocate present at our office, once a week, which has really helped to connect the women with legal services. and finally we would like to thank the other organizations that we work with that help us provide legal services directly to the women that we work with. thank you. >> thank you, before i call the next speaker i have a few other cards, if you want to line up. [ reading speakers' names ] next speaker, in any order, please feel free to come up. >> hi, good afternoon, my name is especially espiranza i am here to t

on behalf of the society and our co-presenters, the san francisco african-american chamber of commercethe bayview ymca, senator mark leno's office, the san francisco public library, and the mayor's office of neighborhood services, welcome to the 2013 black history month program. the 2013 black history month theme is "at the crossroads of freedom and equality, the emancipation proclamation and the march on washington." the society is the lineal descendant of the san francisco atheneum. it has been the only san francisco institution that is dedicated to documenting, preservinging and presenting true accounts of the history of people of african descent in san francisco. the society is a membership-based organization. without the hard work of our members and friends, the society wouldn't be able to present programs like today's kickoff. i'd like to take a moment here to thank members of our board of directors and the black history month committee who are here. amongst the board of directors members we have here today are dr. bill hoskins, and please hold your applause until i finish the li

i would like to thank the co- sponsors, and the bar association of san francisco. would like to thank them for their help and support. it is my pleasure to introduce the president elect of the bar association of san francisco. they provide conflict attorneys to handle cases when a defender is not available. >> i am the president elect of the bar association. we're very proud to co-sponsor the justice of it. on behalf of the 8000 members, and all of those who -- dedicate their careers -- we are very fortunate to have his leadership with top-notch legal representation. for those who were charged each year who are innocent. an important part of the mission is providing equal access to justice. this is shared by his office and all the public defenders. we're proud of the conflict panel that he described, and we also provide the top-notch representation in matters that his office cannot handle. we applaud you for what you do and for those of you who could not make it, thank you very much. this year's public defender simon will be an interesting day, full of cutting edge

i will be introducing a resolution and would hopefully with the co-sponsorship of of the members of the board of supervisors at some point to modify a prior resolution introduced at the board of supervisors in terms of the scope of the work that some of the lafco staff can do so at the time some of the language that was used was more restrictive so we simply will introduce language that provides more flexibility in that and that's consistent with the direction that we have been going, and not only focusing on cca but other issues under the purview of the lafco so i will introduce that resolution and will be asking some of my colleagues on the board for their co-sponsorship. >> okay. very good. do we have public comment on the executive committee report -- executive officer's report -- i think we did so we will go to the next item general public comment. >> item eight is public comment. >> okay. seeing -- we do have a comment from the public. >> i am sorry. before i kind of wrapped up before i mentioned this is a really short presentation. i know al gave the summary of the business model

the co-pilot fainted midair. ew report is questioning whether the bomb sniffing dogs you see at the airport are keeping us safer. >> the report slams the government for spending $100 million on the program, they believe may not be affect i at all. >> reporter: this is how it is supposed to work. bomb sniffing dogs lock in on a passenger, correctly identifying the threat before the person canact. >> they want to do the right thing , the home work hasn't been done. money gets spent before they know something works. >> more than 700 bomb sniffing dogs have been deployed for the program, but investigators say some are not getting the monthly training they require. >>> something terp about to happen in china. a truck carrying fireworks explodes. still ahead, we will show you the damage. [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti. but he had purina cat chow indoor. he absolutely loved it. and i knew he was getting everything

. >> one of the co-sponsors of the says it is necessary to protect bikers. >> if there's an accident in a me what to make sure we put everything and the safer.o make biking >> apparently it could get worse. i am wrong amsterdam. -- i am from amsterdam. i am used to worse than this. it is already against the law bars ando smoke in outside certain buildings. the push is on to regulate push in the city. a campus in the city will go free.tely smoke don't understand how a could of course this. they are in the middle of a city. they do not on the sidewalk or streets -- they do not won the sidewalk or the streets. -- do not own the sidewalk or the streets. are calling the new green movement a war on drivers. >> it was jury today. -- dreay today. i think that's the house. [ ma announcer ] so there's lots of peopleut there, who aren't happy with their internet. hey steve. did you say, "my internet's so bad, i think it's giving my kids psychological problems"? [ chuckles ] yea. "my internet's so slow it would be faster to look things up at the library"? i did. "my internet's so slow it's like

my name is tom temrano and i'm the president of the harvey milk democratic club, also one of the co-chairs of the south of market stabilize fund cac, where i recommend the needs of the neighborhood. one of the considerations has been the preservation of lgbt teen nightlife as you have seen the greatest loss of space in san francisco. last year we co-hosted a forum with the alice b. toklas foundation and the nightlife spaces that currently exist on 11th tv all of the existing spaces catered to the lgbt community and at least two of those clubs are queer-owned entertainment venues. i think everyone deep down knows this would create conflicts between residents and businesses that we don't need to actually have. and we can avoid by ensuring that 11th street entertainment is supported in not allowing new residential units on that street. and i would love to see the opportunity for new businesses that can highlight queer entertainers and queer culture to be able to open along folsom street in this plan, further from a small business perspective, i would like to see south of market businesses to

hughes is also of course the co-founder of facebook and bought "the new republic" last year with the aim to print digital media for the age. thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me. >> you just interviewed the president along with your editor. how did he strike you? how would you describe his attitude, his approach to a second term? a sense of confidence as he seeks to build legacy but also achieve some real accomplishment. >> well, there are a couple things. i mean, in the interview in the oval office itself he was very careful and very thoughtful in each one of the responses and really wanted to choose the words right. the words he chose particularly when it came to the second term and his relationship with republicans were at least to me seemed like a very different obama than four years ago. he seemed much more -- i won't say combative but certainly much ready to go to congress and say what he believed in, push for his agenda and use the power of the presidency to try to build some consensus. the question is how, right? i mean, it's a different approach. but the technique that

joining us is laurie, the co-founder of book leans, a company that makes fashionable and functional binders. alfred edmond, senior president, multimedia at large for black enterprise and brad harrison is the founder and ceo of bhv, business development firm with a venture capital fund to support early stage companies. great to see you guys. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> laurie, you heard about these women. >> yes. >> and had an idea and followed their same process, right? >> i did. i did. we had a concept and then we had to develop a business strategy from there. and so we decided to do a little bit of research on-line and there i stumbled across locker lookz and their success story. >> you did the best research, found someone who did the work for you. >> i sure did. >> you must see this all the time, brad. you invest in early stage companies. people must come and say i have this idea, i know people are going to buy it what do i do now. >> yeah. i mean i think laurie's idea is probably the best thing which is find a plan that's worked, look at where they've had success and where the

they're really in the forefront of what is going on and co-generation facilities and combine heat and power. people are starting to take a serious look at and i understand the reasons behind coming up with a simple program which is a purchase power agreement but i know politically san franciscans are going to decide if this is really their program in the beginning phasing and if they're not seeing benefit until four and a half from now they're going to opt out and not participate in the program and i hope we innovative to come up with a program that has community benefit immediately so that's it. >> thank you. any other member of the public who would like to comment and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment. thank you for your comments and i think from our point of view as commissioners on the committee we really want to see us get to the build out phase as quickly as possible. we want to maximize jobs as much as possible and minimize the impact to rate payers and that is a a major challenge going forward. with negotiations between them i think there are tools we can

second, the co general facility proposal the combined power is not only is that a continued investment in fossil fuels and it's private, local power has been saying for years now that it doesn't identify and know the sites that those cogent facilities would be located on but they don't think there would be any problem with seek away because it [spelling?] aught to be extent and they don't think there are any citing or permitting issues and they are still saying this at the done annoy where those location are and they are still talking about hetch hetchy power and i trust your staff with i know it's the same issue for all of these times and as a permitting environmental lawyer, i hear the proposal for local build-out would you tell any understanding without any understanding that has been given to site and permanentings and that is a huge under takings and certainly without annoy nog what they are proposing. thank you for your time. >> thank you. jason freed l.a. s c o staff on laugh behalf of supervisor chair comp poe and is one comment that wanted to give on this part of the presentat