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talk to me about the role of sports in the city's economic future, from the 49ers to the america's cuptalk to me about sports in san francisco. >> i was fortunate growing up. i was one that had season tickets to season49ers -- season tickets to the 49ers from what i was 8 years old. one part is economic, which i'll get to in the second, but the other part that is missing is what it does for the city of san francisco to bring us together as a community, as a city. what happened when the 49ers won those super bowls year after year? that was a huge deal for our city and our community in san francisco. what happened with the world series this year when the giants won for the first time in over 50 years? incredible. everybody was celebrating. and that is a huge deal for our community in san francisco, but i think, economically, not only jobs in terms of construction of stadiums and what have you. economically, you know, for those people who do not believe or do not really fully appreciate what type of economic drivers the sporting events and teams are, go down to soma during a giants game.

with the residents of the city are genious emo said that the city's gdp growth could reach seven point five percent which is twenty seven thousand dollars per capita thus according to the micro economic indicators the city is equal to the countries of central and eastern europe the mare pointed out a number of other positive economic trends in particular the city's foreign trade turnover exceeding twenty seven billion us dollars in the stroller and put increased by five point five percent. the republican budget received three hundred and sixteen million singing of taxes about twenty percent of the revenues in the state budget last year came from almighty. the man assured that the adjustment of the national currency will not affect the social programs claim by the mayor's office for this year two thousand fourteen was clear the year of education for kindergartens three schools in seventeen private schools were built in the market last year this year the city's administration intends to encourage thousands of education workers and investor enterprises will be built in oman tea and settle a new metro stations will be commissioned in more bicycle lanes will be built as well it is also pl

last friday, want to make sure i mention this, i did attend the 2014 economic briefing of the municipal fiscal advisory committee held at city hall. and at this meeting there were industry experts and aloe ~ economists who were discussing the economic outlook for the city and county of san francisco over the next three years. and the consensus in the room at that meeting was that san francisco economy will continue to be strong and will continue to grow over the next three years. so, that is some validation of the assumptions that we have built into our department's budget with the increase of volume of applications that we expect over the next two fiscal years. again, there were no changes to our volume assumptions. so, here is -- this slide is a summary of the department's revenue projection over the next two fiscal years. and i did not make any changes to our revenue projections over the next two fiscal years from what i presented to you two weeks ago on february 5th. all the assumptions have remained the same. so, you'll see our revenue is projected to be at $37.7 million next fiscal year which is a pretty significant in

the. street another one. become. mobilized to. blend into the city the city. the. economic. the fine. and the rest. if we all think. she looks like a. handful of people. the real king here is the polar bear and ice breaker. the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers. welcome back to worlds apart where we are discussing digital freedom and oppression with richard stallman mr stillman you have a very interesting life philosophy and you're a very interesting person you really are hard to miss in a room but i wonder if. you realize how different you are from the more conventional crowd people who may sympathize with your ideas but who find them extremely difficult to implement and that why encourage people to find more willpower by looking for it and many people have but for example i know that you've been you don't use a mobile phone and you have been advocating against the use of mobile phone phones because of all the tracking and with the recent n.s.a. scandal i think many people are very conscious of what that mean tale but how can you really do that and. how can you not have a hold a phone it's not that har

organizations that receive funding, 14 still continue to operate and contribute to the cultural and economic value of the city. this is a good investment in the city over ten years ago and many of these organizations that received funding in 2000 are important institutions that contribute to our district. whether it is the presidio, the filipino-american development foundation and 9th street media consortium. or in other development center, [speaker not understood], portola family connections, wafao house and more. so, this effort is really to be able to support and fund some of these solutions that are coming out of this working group with our nonprofit executive directors, and of course, at the mayor's office of housing. again, looking forward to seeing in. colleagues, again, i ask for your support. i know we have brian here to talk about the activities of the work group. so, through the chair, if we can have mr. zew come up. i thought this item would come up earlier. i had a meeting waiting in my office, but i'll try to come back if i can. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor kim. so, mr. zew. >> good after

the financial crisis in two thousand and eight so we need to read this guy sion of the fundamental economic all the cities regulate global and national policies. economic story and. article all can sadder than market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in its blades what about these giant corporations that you're talking about i mean here we see advertising basically brainwashing everyone into consume consume consume what do we do how do we began to combat them and actually push the government when the center of the government's been used as a tool for the market right now. yes i think that we need a massive social walkmans that will create for healthy policies you because you feel that these corporations. themselves are we know all that for the families not profitable to produce healthy foods because actually to produce fast food and also processed braggarts is much more efficient and one economically sound so all you need to tolerate here to to fight is strength to want to relation and analyse crowther in terms of other ties you i think that. i think that some stats show that more than ninety

vladislav miagkov is optimistic about the city's potential in the future. ( speaking russian ) translator: after perestroika, the city faced a great number of economic and political problems related to the transition to the market economy. but the city holds enormous potential in its well-educated populace, its intelligentsia and its laborers. moreover, st. petersburg is an important railway and transportation junction that still concts ruia wi the west. that's why our city has a ance to overcome its at the same time,ies. st. petersburg as an important tourist and cultural center remains a worthy representative of russia to the world community. hardwick: st. petersburg is still the most beautiful city in russia, and geographically its location means it will never lose that importance. but after more than ten difficult years of transition, i think that the future of russia's experiment with democracy and free-market economy still remains uncertain. narrator: st. petersburg's relative location to european markets and culture were key to its development on the neva river delta. symbol of peter the great's desire for "europeanization" of russia, today s

the united states has won two gold medals and three bronze. right now there are three events that are still taking place. before this year's winter games sochi had been hurting economically. the city'somic problems dating back to the collapse of the sovietdown. the olympics bringing some money into sochi, but not enough. >> reporter: silver times severy they go to fetch water. it's easy to slip on the hillside especially when bearing the heavy load. the trips are necessary because the taps in her house are dry. >> they keep promises and promising that we'll get running water. we put in a sink because we had hopes. >> reporter: a village just 15 minutes drive from downtown sochi, but it's residents told me it might as well be in a different century. >> we live in the middle ages. they promised everything before the elections, then they forget. >> i need to bath my babies every day. how can i do it? >> we take our children to the main square to see the sochi and enjoy the atmosphere. then we return to our homes and the excitement vanishes. >> you can see their points. down in the resort where the plazas and malls teem with olympic visitors, everything is shiny and new. this is somewhe

the city. our city's ability to improve our capital infrastructure is one of the most important issues for our city. as san francisco continues on its economic revival and the transparent manner, the voters of san francisco have declared it's crucial for the government to keep up with our evolving city. having spent much of the past years with labor representative, with local 21, i now serve as a director of research and communications for local 216789 . i have worked with the city on impressive capital project including the water improvement plan and san francisco rebuild. through all of this whether meeting with engineers, architects, elected officials or before the civil service commission i have been informed about how to handle large scale projects and understand the contracting process of the city will make me a valuable asset to this committee. as a labor attorney i have been able to work on mous and work on all civil servants on both concepts and delivery. i am proud of labor's efforts over the past couple of years such as the city has one of the highest bond ratings ever. it will run as efficiently and practically as possible as thi

the notation of concentration. there's been 11 percent formula retail across the city but in economic growing graph there's an interesting phenomena at the major intersection 4 gas stations occupy the intersection. that's the best place to be with your immediate competitors for the market share. high concentration in small areas it didn't help us to think about that cross the city but you need to look at within a half a block and how does that change the economics as well as the character of the neighborhood. we don't have an analysis of that but i think that also is something that could use some analysis and so get the suggestions. those are my friendly suggestions and look forward to the staff report >> thank you. >> thank you good afternoon arnold townsend the economic opportunity you council of san francisco. which happens to be one of the last groups on the war on poster which happens to be the only declared what are the united states has ever lost because there's twice of the number of people living in poverty now than in 64. this is the 50 years of that property act. just wanted to say to suggest to you that you h

the word. it promotes economic results in the city people don't come out at the night they're afraid of getting hit and a accosted by crime. they would spend more time in the city if it was lit up 0 edward reiskin please contact the puc and rush up lighting on those 3 areas van ness and market and the embarcadero downtown is the worse and also please train the drivers on the f line to make the people move back i'm sick and tired of telling me them this i'm getting horse have red signs put up on the bus thank you edward reiskin but it's not enough they have to make sure that the people move back there's plenty of room in the back and as a result people can't board the bus and their frustrated. thank you very much for your attention to those matters >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> barry toronto. >> mr. toronto. >> hi, good afternoon. i'm barry toronto i want to wish julia good luck. i think it's great to have challenges there is a lot of history there good luck. i wanted to tell you one thing two words fly whole sucks. it's good for the pedestrians but terrible inform the drivers. yes, we

in that can i they were able to look at the retail sales embarrassed to borough wide we've seen other cities improvements in the economic outcome. and so what we did was take a look at the imperial information on gary corridor of the existing conditions. we have business diode on gary that are located in front of a bus stop and we have businesses that don't aren't located their away from bus stops we compared the sales outcomes for those two types of businesses to see if there's any correlation so we took the sales data to group together with businesses that with parking vs. the businesses that don't have parking. we can't find a correlation between parking and sales. this slide shows a medium sales per square feet in the green and in the businesses that have parking and the purple are businesses that don't have parking. you see there isn't a clear distinction, difference in the sales performance of the two. this is

shown to be a flawed idea especially during the financial crisis in two thousand and eight so we need discussion of their fundamental economic all the cities regulate global and national policies on an economic story and. article can sadder than market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in explains what about these giant corporations that you're talking about i mean here we see advertising basically brainwashing everyone into consume consume consume what do we do how do we began to combat them and actually push the government when the center of the government's been used as a tool for the market right now. yes i think that we need a massive social weren't. for hell if you call this easy because you feel that this corporations. themselves or we know all that for damn it's not profitable to produce healthy foods because actually to produce fast food and also process products is much more efficient and economical sound so all you need the public here to to fight is strength to want to relation and analyse products in terms of other ties you i think that. i think there's some stats show that more than ninety percent of americans co

train the city employees about the responsibilities and i may be incorrect in what i just heard from the executive director, but what he said was if the city employees file statements of economic interest and they commit perjury and lie there is nothing that you can do about it. is that what you tell the city employees when training them on filling out the sri you can put down anything and purger yourself and so there is nothing that we can do about it so go right ahead? i previously showed herrera's false filing for 2009, 10, and 11, and as you saw, herrera filed statements under penalty of perjury where he claimed that he received nothing of value and the revised form showed that he received thousands of dollars from the friends and then proceeded to lie and say that he received nothing. what makes this most agregus is that two years of public records disclosed that he or the public library has any document to show where $60 million raised by the friends in the name of the public library between 2000 and 2013 went. >> nothing. >> the friends came in and gave a report they never asked me questions about, and said that we gave you, 750,000 this year, and it turns out that it w

the communities of san francisco. we're in a wonderful boom in terms of economics and the city college needs to be there to support of the skill sets that are required to be sustained by the people of san francisco. that's really the hallmark of why this bill t is important >> (inaudible) we would lose so far there - and a that's correct this year we're in a current year of stabilization and as we finish all the monumental work that's been done it will take at least another year and more importantly it will take time for the students to have the confidence to come back to school. you know what we've noticed it that our students haven't gone anywhere they're waiting to see what's happening to us. that's an important thing to note and the stabilization funding will help to give the confidence back to the students. thank you >> (inaudible). >> i don't have a number only a you are about to give on the on top of my head. >> what about prop thirty and prop 8 in san francisco we've had (inaudible). >> that didn't balance out the loss. >> i want to talk about numbers like city college 23 million for what? >> currently, we ha

years of promises to the people on the east end of this city the sky land shopping center will finally come to fruition because of the work on this administration on economic development. >> reporter: the mayor crowed under his watch the city is running a $139 million surplus in next year's budget, but there was plenty of decigram on what to do -- disagreement on what to do with that money. >> i'm intending to hang onto it and not spend it. >> there's times where we need a tax cut when we're running surpluses. that's not just found lottery money. >> reporter: one thing that is clear? the arguing is likely to continue until election day just over four weeks from now. bruce leshan, wusa9. >> there were plenty of things all the candidates agreed on. they all support decriminalizing marijuana and they're all in favor of more money for the metro. i coming up next a warning to -- >>> coming up next a warning to russia from the white house. >> if you thought it was below average today, you are correct. we managed to get above 40, though, 43 and 25 goes in the books, averages 50 and 33, record 77 and 8. coming back we'll look ahead to the week >>> we're following

the economic activity and tax revenue. people qualified for eb 2 visas are superstars, who could go to any other u.s. city. she questions whether they'd use detroit and whether the plan would be approved by the federal government. >> i would be surprised to see how many visas would be used. they exist, but to make them specific for michigan, that would be unprecedented to give a state a benefit under federal law. >> others see the proposal of favouring skilled residents. 80% are black, two out of five live in poverty. they'd prefer to train native detroiters. >> production has been replaced by technology. what does that mean for my hands. what do you want my hands to do. >> if you don't need my hands, there's an issue. >> this man welcomes immigrants, those that revitalized detroit. he thinks that the black community could be weakened. >> you think if the governor goes forward, it will be a way to displace black people in detroit. >> it's happened over the last sensis period. we lost 237,000 people, many of whom were african american. >> the governor is supported, they say the city needs new blood. >> the i

the economic ladder. and if you look at the city where i live and you look at baltimore, maryland, half of the adult male african american residents have no work. that's not an economic system that is having a bad go of it, that's something that doesn't actually work. that's an economic system that is throwing away and doesn't need 10 to 15% of its population. >> yeah, without work they have no value, no worth to society? >> it's existential, and -- >> what do you mean? >> work is meaning for all of us. and it's relevance and it's our place in society is dictated to us by what we contribute and what we're paid to do. and if part of america is validated to the extent that they are predominant in all of the luxury that the country can afford and part of the country is utterly irrelevant to the economic structure, you know, those factories are all gone. we don't need those people anymore, and we've let them know. and you know, the only factory in my city, in west baltimore or in east baltimore that was working, that was viable was the drug corner. and that worked like a charm. and ultimately, what i look at

the water is safe for everyone to drink. but to reassure residents and to limit any potential economic damage, the city is sing out-of-state lab to test the water yet again. tom costello, nbc news, charleston. >>> and we're back in just a moment with the big decision that researchers have reversed themselves on for the first time in memory. >>> walter ehlers has died. he was a recipient of the medal of honor, and until today the last surviving recipient from the omaha beach invasion. walt grew up in kansas. he was so young when he signed up to go fight, he needed his mother's permission. he saw a lot of action in world war ii, but he stood out in the fighting in the countryside of france in the days after d-day. despite being wound lead separate times, he took out several german gun crews single-handedly, and at one point drew all the incoming fire upon himself to allow his men to withdraw with the wounded. a month later he learned he had passed by the body of his older brother, roland, who never made it off the omaha beach. walt ehlers died with a german bullet still in his right leg. he was 92, and among the best men any of

what about the big boys at national city bank?" the dominant economicce belonged to andrew mellon, the secretary of the treasury from 1921 to 1931. eveyone was convinced the smartest man in america was the secretary of commerce, herbert hoover. even the hardened cynics of the washington press corps were impressed by hoover. i had unstinted admiration for him. he would sit at the end of a long table, and reporters would sit on either side. we'd each ask a question. he'd look fixedly down-- he was shy-- and after the last man had asked his question, he'd put his head up. he'd remember each question and answer it. he knew more about what was going on in america than any other american. we'd say, "this is an incredible man." then, one day, the magic stopped working. the business community tried to weather the storm. president hoover told the nation the slump was temporary, that prosperity was just around the corner. calming words couldn't reverse the decline. willard thorp was an early analyst of the business cycle. he recalls the mood. chaos was just aroun

. ♪ >>> bogota is the largest city in colombia and the economic heart of the country. ny of them very well, but some not so well. it's a city with a marked north-south divide. chef tomas rueda's restaurants sit side by side in the macarena neighborhood, where the city center meets the north. ♪ >> the lunch tomas is serving us here at tabula is defined by high-quality fundamentals more than by high-concept theories. if there's a theme here, it's that ingredients this good, meticulously prepared, are the essence of great eating. it's a beautiful space. so, how's the restaurant business in bogota? >> it's a very good business. a lot of people with money, they don't know how to cook. >> nobody cooks at home. maybe their cook does. so, they eat out a lot? >> yeah. it's a new part of our culture, everybody wants to go to restaurants. >> so, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, what, traditional, casual food? >> yeah. >> a few fine dining, you know, white table cloths served with what, french, continental or italian, but this is new? >> it's a new business, a new world. there's two gre

the road. as you said he's speaking in chicago for the city's economic club. fo christie's work it's breaking fundraising records hauling in $6 million last month alone but the bridge seems to dog him even in the windy city. >> people who worked for me made some significant mistakes in judgment. when you are the leader of that organization and you're confronted with that, the first things that happens to you, it happened to me, is extraordinary disappointment. >> the democratic national committee drafted this man, former ohio governor ted strictland who called christie a bully who should not be rga head, let alone president. >> either the governor knew and he is lying or he is the most inept, incompetent, chief executive imaginable. >> christie was in chicago at the george washington bridge there was a small group of anti-christie protestors demonstrating. >> 18 new subpoenas as of last night? >> added to the 20 or so already out, the special committee in trenton issuing more subpoenas. we may have someone else taking the fifth if they appear before that speci

they are holding the 17th annual wall street project economic summit here in new york city. e-day summit concentrating on economic justice for minorities. one major accomplishment announced was when at&t became the first major company that utilized a mier nority owned firm to co-manage a live financial transaction. t"wall street journal" will release a new study. rev. jesse jackson joins us here tonight. good to have you with us. the corporate scoreboard for minorities. are we seeing change? >> kind of going backwards. a $50 billion bill out with fees. that they have been offering and -- >> what does this tell you? >> what changed in the 17 years you have been holding the summit if this is the report today? >> well, when the companies, when wall street collapsed because of lack of oversight and the banks went into the predatory lending and private mortgage insurance scheme the government without proper oversight let them go down and bailed them out and linked to investments. you see banks in washington and new york and you see the communities are destroyed, that is a part of