the needs of the city as a whole? >> for me that's easy because san francisco, the entire city, is my home. i grew up here. i know -- i went to galileo in the marina, my family lives all over the city. i can't do something that positively impacts district 5, but i can make it impact san francisco as a whole. so, whatever decisions i make, it's a no-brainer. i have to make sure that it's going to positively impact the city as a whole. and that's just how i view every decision that i make through that particular lens. >> let's talk a little about your district in particular. what do you hear about transportation from your constituents? is there adequate muni service? >> well, it's funny that you mention muni. [laughter] >> and let me just say this. as someone who caught -- i mean, we caught muni -- when i was growing up in the city, i mean, that's how you got around. and there were some real problems with muni. i've talking about just -- i mean, the buses were always dirty, they were always packed. there was just always some challenges and the city is growing clearly. and we need to look at all modes of trans

the team? >> i don't see the city subsidizing the team from my perspective, from what i've seen in terms of the deal. other than potentially the land, which they will pay for eventually. maybe not the entire amount, but i don't think there are any plans for the city to give up anything financially from my perspective. other than potentially land that wasn't going to be used in the first place. but i appreciate the fact that the warriors are focusing on private fund-raising and i prefer that they stick to that. i don't think the city should be -- with the situation we're in now, we should be really investing in that and the warriors seem to be committed to privately fund-raising for it and i'm happy that they're stepping up to do that. >> exciting change. >> yes. >> we're almost out of time. but are there any other issues that concern you that we haven't discussed or anything that you plan to concentrate on as your term of supervisor? >> i think one of the things that i really want to concentrate on is making sure that we are collaborating more. because as a city, we're growing. resources are being stretched. and it's going to be important that organizations collaborate. city departments c

the city's approach to developing its economy? >> i think that really depends on the changing times. and there isn't sort of one solution for the entire city. it real i depends on kind of what the dynamics are going on with the economy as a whole in the region. not just looking at san francisco, but really as a regional body. >> sometimes district issues are different than zvi issues. what do you feel are some of the biggest issues facing your district? ~ city >> i think because we have a lot of children, families, seniors in our district, they care a lot about your quality of life issues, right. and it's the reason why people choose to live there. they want to make sure that your streets are repaved, that our potholes are filled, that public transportation works for you, that, you know, your parks and play grounds are safe for your children to play in, students can go to local schools. i think that those are all important issues facing district 4 and will continue to. >> how have you balanced the needs of your district versus the needs of the city as a whole? >> i think that as a district supervisor, we play that balancing act every

anne makovec live in gotham with how the entire city is rallying around batkid. it's amazing. >> reporter: it's absolutely unbelievable. even this morning, no expected this. thousands of people have come to see what the batkid is up to. he is eating lunch. even superheros need fuel. this is the crowd waiting for him to come out. they are planning a flash mob. an hour ago he got a call from the police chief and saved the day for a second time today accompanied by his full sized batman guide. the riddler was attempting to rob a vault on montgomery street. he caught him in the act. the riddler is now locked up for good, one of many heroic acts for batkid today. with the spray of following, the roar of the crowd to and a souped up batmobile, san francisco was transformed into gotham city all for a 5-year- old boy who dreamed of becoming a hero. >> he is very shy, very kind hearted boy and this has been so brave through all of this. >> this being leukemia. miles has battled it for most of his life, the kind of struggle that takes true strength to overcome. today, neces

point, a neighborhood in the south bronx that has the highest concentration of foreclosures in the entire city. hunts point is already well known for its poor urban environment. it's straddled by 3 highways and experiences heavy truck traffic from the nearby market. residents face some of the highest asthma rates in the country, and experts say foreclosure is making them worse. >> where is my medicine? >> i think it's in one of the small ones. >> in the two small ones? >> i think, i don't know, one of them. >> my asthma is crazy. i'm on so many medications. i always keep it plugged in, so i don't have to go through the trouble of plugging it in, because i use the machine even 3 times in one day, myself. i have been changed of medication to symbicort because my medication hasn't helped me. come. then i just put the medicine... turn it on, and put it on him, or put it on me, or my oldest child, which is 16, he's going to be 17. >> hi, my name is evan. >> [laughing] >> the mold in the bathroom. it's a lot of things, little things like that that are like...the garbage in the backyard is ridiculous

and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we're encoloneling people to get out and play. that's our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. >> get out and play. >> we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for disease control, childhood obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. in 2010 more than one-third of our children were overweight or obese. it is important that we get our kids outside. our children today average over 7-1/2 hours be

the world. today this city becomes just a little bit more beautiful. thanks to the incredible hard work that has made this new renovation a reality. the parks alliance is the independent partner to the entire city for everything having to do with parks, recreation, and open space. we have more than 100 different community groups called park partners all across the city. each of them working in their own way to make our park system a little better, a little more beautiful, a little more usable. today this is the day for one of those groups, the friends of lafayette park. this is a shining example of how a few neighbors can come together, bring together their friends, and make an incredibly beautiful thing happen in a public open space. this park was renovated with bond dollars, but friends of lafayette park brought in hours and hours of hard work over four years to do visioning and imagining what this park could really look like. they raised over half a million dollars of private fund to augment the bond dollars so that this kind of a playground could be added to this park. it's been that kind of selfless generosity, and hours of giving to the city that is just an incredible humbling experi

the entire. >> at one moment in time. we have three officers on at one time >> that includes the supervisor? >> correct. >> so one supervisor and two staff. for the entire city and county of san francisco. >> yes, and we also have a sworn officer that is our dispatcher. >> for hundreds and thousands of animals. and because it seems that, thank you very much. >> and it seems that we have a situation where we have very few available officers because of the staffing is so low. and a significant volume of calls for all manner of challenges that we have whether it is vicious dogs or abused or neglected or a dead animal that needs to be removed, and i am sure that i could go on and on and on with the different reasons why the animal care and controls get a call and it is legally responsible to respond. and we are, they don't have the resources to respond to everything in a timely manner or to do enough investigation, and so i am hearing that maybe we will pair them up which is great for the officers safety. but that does not seem to address the capacity issue, which seems to be part of the fundamental problem and so, the city administrator believes that there is e

conversation is not able to happen and it deserves an evaluation of the exiting services across the entire city with an open cycle. unfortunately awhile we have not been able to support this i building those amendments are necessary for this item to move forward. so mr. president, i'd like to make a motion to adapt the amendments >> verify cohn has seconded it. >> is supervisor cowen done with her statement. >> do you have comments. >> colleagues, any discussion on the amendments. supervisor avalos. i do have some concerns. is it necessary maybe this is a question for our director of the agency. is it necessary that we rezone this if it's a shelter on the spot that we do rezoning for current land use? >> supervisor farrell. i'll refer to the office that's been handsomely that issue >> thank you i'm from the mayor's office it is required for rezoning some certain form of p dr we'll come to the board with revisions. >> thank you when the other amendment that's here start on line 8 requiring that registered sex offenders staying at the shelter register they will be prohibited from staying at the s

then the entire city, given the supply of createive talent, the whole city could be a revolving work of art. that would be wonderful. that is what black rock city is. why not transpose that to san francisco? i think the city is now looking at doing art paths for that purpose. it would not be hard, given the abundance of -- after so many years in the desert, there is a huge backlog of brilliant art. magnificent piece is done by armies of artists working together. so that is an obvious things that could be instituted. i also pulled him that we did not have any trash cans in our city. we did not really continue that dialogue. [laughter] >> the question that everyone in san francisco is asking now, i'm going to ask you as a formality. are you going this year? have you ever missed one? have you ever wanted to? >> no. [laughter] at one time, i was very much needed -- i am still needed, from time to time. although, if i and my partners have done our job, we should not be needed that much. i am like anyone else out there. it is a big place. it is hyperactive. not only are there 100 things, b

enough bikes as part of the initial roll out and despite that we've been fortunate as a city this program has been as successful as it is but to see the full benefits for the entire city i think we have to get far beyond where we are. i've been really gratified to see residents workers and visitors take advantage of it and it's been helping to improve quality of life on the streets so i'm looking forward to the presentation today and move this forward regardless of neighborhood and income and look forward to working with my colleagues on this. >> we have salidarenolds and for members of the public who wish to make public comment, we have blue cards at the front if you would fill one out that would be terrific. >> we're very excited to be here to talk about bike sharing launch what we've seen happen and where we want to go with this i'm cynthia reynolds responsible for the school safety implementation throughout the city when we think about our goals in terms of you know around environmental goals as well as reducing healthcare and transportation costs for san francisco san, franciscans bike sharing is one of the most cost effective investments you have all eluded

the entire city pitched in the mayor's office and the san francisco giants, they turned the city into gotham. they have lam ber gee knees and all these other items. it's so cool. what a neat thing to do for a little boy. isn't that cool? >> how far could you push and make a wish? i want to be able to kill the villain. i don't think you can do that. no, it's make a wish, right? >> right. you can't make a wish come true. >> exactly. anyway. >> one more thing, right? >> right. >> we're going to run out of time. i'll forego my time to mr. beckel, watch cash in tomorrow. >> deconstruction of obama care? that's brand new. we put up the fact that i had my 49th birthday today on the web page. and i want to tell you that there were thousands and thousands of people who left wonderful messages. i know i drive you crazy and i want to drive you crazy. that's probably one of my goals in life of you conservatives out there, although you're not all conservativ conservatives. thank you very much. you've been kind to me and i appreciate that and i appreciate the well wishes and back at you. >> now you

my district really encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. as a result, i think my district is really emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective that you could possibly want in district 3. so oftentimes, the interest of my district and the city really are quite a line, so i do not have to think about this difference is probably quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. i in particular want to thank the mayor for his decision to protect our nutrition programs. this is something that i think we all believe is incredibly important at a time when we have seen massive federal and state cuts, for us to hold the line locally and stand up in the city of st. francis for our seniors and our nutrition programs and families. i think we have a lot of challenges right now. we are still in the midst of the great recession. we all know way too many folks who are struggling in a minimum wage jobs pirouette of folks who have been laid off at work. i think as a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and more economic development. i know that all

the city well on that board. for a number of years i had a small real estate company with a dozen people and we covered the entire city of san francisco commercial residential and industrial portfolios. in addition to that i am a certified appraiser i find my past experience with the board i believe serves the city well, in that i oftentimes complex issues and the owners of those properties who have grievance at times almost need to be educated on the spot. when they seek redress and i believe that my experience as enabled me to carry the analysis further. are there any questions >> no questions i'm sorry your currently on the board. >> i am. >> how long. >> you'll have to ask don. >> you don't know. >> i would hesitate giving an exact number of years. >> i see so do i think it's over 5 or 6. >> over 5. >> when you get to the - and a i'm sorry. >> that's okay 6 years. >> he's been i believe this is i know it's his third or fourth reappointment i believe when we first came on board he didn't fulfill a full term at that time. >> so persisting around that 10 years. >> thank you. i have no other questions. >> thank y

within three days they had control of the entire city, which no one had expected. and his whole family fled. there was a lot of excitement in the country because it seemed like it was over. >> but it isn't over. not while gadhafi and his sons remain in hiding. until october 20th, 2011. that day tracy shelton is with a group of militia fighters she's been profiling for months. >> that morning some of the guys from the battalion had gone into sirt, and i'd gone in with them. >> around 8:30 a.m. a heavily armored convoy of around 70 vehicles is seen leaving sirt, gadhafi's hometown and his last remaining stronghold. >> there were snipers all over the city that were set up to protect the convoy. everybody knew there was someone important in this group. >> nato forces bombed the caravan from the air. dozens are killed. >> there were a lot of survivors that had run into bushes, into houses in this area. >> as rebel fighters prepare to head to the site of the convoy bombing, shelton asks if she can go along. but they refuse. >> that was the only time they ever said no. th

but the entire city pitched in, the mayor's office, the san y francisco giants, and theymiss turned therue. he even has a bat mobile. they have lambourghinis and ally these other cars. it's so cool. ber what a neat, net thing to do fo. a little boy. >> that's wonderful. >> how far a could you push in make a wish? y i want to be able to kill the villain. i don't think you can do that. it's make a wish, right? >> you have to make the wish come true. >> exactly. where am i, eric? >> it's me. bob, you have a one more thing, right? >> yes. >> we're going to run out of time.>> i'll forego my time for mr. beckel. do me a favor, watch "cashin' in" tomorrow. >> that's something brand-new,mr you deconstructing obamacare? we put up the fact i had my 49th birthday today on the web page. i want to tell you that there were thousands and thousands of people who left wonderful messages. i appreciate it. i know i drive you crazy and i want to drive you crazy. that's probable will he one of my goals in life. you's conservatives, although you're not all conservatives. thank you veryou much. you've been ve

. >> it was something that people rallied around which is something that really unites the entire city on a regular day. >> a wonderful touch. the story begins after a miserable 2012 season, the lousiest season and 47 years. >> a terrible season. what they did was very simple. they unloaded their prima donnas and said them to los angeles. overachievingse neymen players. spend with an open checkbook and they put together the chemistry. on the field they played well. they were the best team in baseball. >> there is a lesson in politics. you know what i mean? you higher jobs who did -- people who will do the job for you. no prima donnas. >> i rented ford detroit -- wased for detroit, but i taken by the and alloyed joy in boston. that made me smile. >> it was a nice touch where they were at the earth on finish line. >> it definitely was. senator john kerry i believe is the person who said this that the first time is about the curse and the second is about irving yours appears -- proving you are supposed to be there and the third time is about ui. -- about joy. a flashback to an earlier tim

the entire city and community are excited for this new home and we'll have this compliment the other world-class institutions that arnold previously mentioned. all of those institutions by the way, are not just for our cultural heritage but also the great business of the city. i want to reminded everybody that the mexican museum will join the arts organizations to reflect a culturely inspired organization that generates 19 thousand jobs already in our city because of our cultural institutions and we'll celebrate this today, this great museum that adds an impressive part of the rest of the museums. i want to again integrate the mexican museum it's the board of trustees and all the staff for being an affiliate of the institution the largest museum network and our museum here will feature a permanent collection of over 14 thousand orbits reflecting colonial and popular and contemporary mexican and mexican-american and latino and chicano art. whether live in the world can you find a beautiful gem of a museum. today wouldn't have long been possible without the assistance of what heretofor

we had payments for the entire city, the school district, the probation department, the port commission, many checks that i had to get out every time and the health service checks that people needed immediately. after doing keep punching and meeting up-to-date that lead operator for 13 years and onto the woods division from 17 state wide for another 17 years, i gained the experience with working with the water department for the year and the health department 101 grove for a year. many departments asked my help and allow me to recap on some of those places. the controllers office in 1973 and the health department and the tax office, the woods division and green division and the approaches in the department. i helped them input their information. the water department, inputting all their information into the computer which was on paper and parking and traffic to mta customer service. i have been around a lot of changes with the city government and rules and regulations and advancements and changes from digging to a shovel to touch screen to tools. i was here for the first and second stri

people in every part of our city, and the most important thing that we can do in terms of equity in our transit system, is having a system that is reliability for the entire city, and i think that this moves us in that direction, and i also just want to comment on the really wonderful proposal that i hope will come out of the mtc, but it is being proposed by the nbc staff now that will for muni bar and ac transit which combine 80 percent of the riders in the region, will provide a significant pool of money for those three agencies including muni to access, to impair the infrastructure and the state of good repair of the system. and to do that, we have to put in local money. to 30 percent of the money has to come from the agency. and then, the mtc will come in with the other 70 percent, it is a wonderful opportunity but we have to put in that money and these recommendations will allow you to do that and if the money is being used for something else and not for the capitol needs of the state of the repair of the system, we will not be able to access all of that regional money. so there are a lot of balls in the air right now, i think that these recommendati

again, he is responsible for the entire city. the consistency is difficult. what i rely on is the department of public health with the people who have the expertise to work with the population. i know, i want to add that one of the challenges is that sometimes the officers are not seeing in the best light with dealing with the population because the reality is they are not just out there sleeping and living in the park. we have drug abusers, drug sellers, people who are mentally challenged and people breaking the law in all kinds of ways and i prefer the police department is able to concentrate it's efforts on that but instead they are adding an additional layer to their responsibility. i can't stress enough the critical need of the support from the department of public health and it's experts to help facilitate the process so we don't lump everyone into one category. there are several kinds of homeless populations. all these individuals have different issues and different needs and i have no tolerance for a supervisor breaking the law compassion is out the d

the entire city are residential areas are covered. what's not covered is in golf courses, so in the city of golf course isn't covered so if you want to take a bus between hoels, it isn't going to work for you. and on the extreme edges of the bay, and the southeast earn part of the city, as the development grows in those places and as resident move in, we'll provide services to meet those service needs. transit and amenities. all of our shelters and bus stops distributed and for shelters, we found they're not. if you look -- we don't install that many new shelters in a year. we have to go through public process to do it. out of the last nine that were installed last year, seven were installed in minority census track. that was good. we just got to get better. we got to close that gap. the next place to expand shelters or install bus folds in the commission, those are minority fences block groups. we're going to look to install shelters there. we have the customer first grants which are for the san bruno corridor and commission corridor.

city. if we're going to restrict it in addition -- if we're going to face additional restrictions then we need to open space in other areas. this action is premature. it could undermind the entire regulatory system. it's time the city allows dispensaries to open in more areas. article 33 requires new mcd's to obtain a land use permit before the juaning commission for bad acting medical care dispensaries. if a licensed mcd become a nuisance they can be penalized and their licenses revoked. this action is reactionary. the worry of residents not used to having medical cannabis dispensaries in their neighborhoods, but the reality is much different than their fears. research shows conclude regulated dispensaries make wonderful neighbors because they reduce crime and improve public safety. on top of that, the middle elders and working class deserve safe access and in fact, i'd argue need it more. a majority of americans choose some form of complementary medicine that's more affordable and has less side effects than pharmaceuticals. cannabis is a safe and effective medicine. dispensaries reduce crime and increase public safety. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good aft

this precipitated by the forest city, in the event that forest city, well, let me back it up with regard to this lease, initially forest city gave us phasing projections for the entire area, and so initially we are looking for a ten-year lease on this site. and then, they looked at it more closely and then, said, five and a five now, it is 58 months and five, one year options and due to their proposed development, they want to have the flexibility to say, we don't need all of it, we may need a portion of it, so that we want to, reduce it, and have you move off of the site. and so that it will not impair the development, but yet, still allow the port to have a revenue stream until all of the lease area is acquired by forest city. >> yeah, i understand that, with as the forest city is going to be ongoing there for ten years. and but, the other part of that paragraph is that it is essentially saying that when they move or have to move, they will get a space somewhere on the port. somewhere on the port property or in other words, they are guaranteed a space. >> they are not guaranteed. >> they are saying that we will look for the available space and there is i think tha

the marathon finish line. >> it was something painful the city went through and rallied around the red sox which is something that unites the entire city on a regular day. >> a wonderful touch. that is the end of the story but the story begins after a miserable 2012 season. the lousiest season and 47 years. >> a terrible season. what they did, it is very simple. they unloaded their prima donnas and sent them to los angeles where they'd did better than the dodgers. they hired these overachieving journeymen players. they they did not buy with an open checkbook. on the field they played well and they were the best team in baseball. as strange as it might seem. >> there is a lesson here in politics. you hire guys who will do the job or you. you do not want any prima donnas. >> my team was the nationals and i kind of rooted for detroit has they had a rough time but i was taken by the un-alloyed joy in boston. that made me smile just to see that. >> it was a nice touch when they went over to the finish line where the bombing took place. >> it definitely was. senator john kerry i believe is the person who first said this. the first time

my district encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. i think my district is emblematic of the entireity. you can find every political perspective you can possibly want in district 3. oftentimes, the interests of my district and the city are aligned. i do not have to think about those differences quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. >> let's talk about the budget situation. we have been faced with some tough budget decisions again, including where to make cuts and whether or not to increase taxes. how will you approached these hard choices? >> our budget is one of the very top challenges facing city government right now. over each of the years i have served, we have had to balance budget deficits that were around $500 million. this year, we're facing another budget deficit of almost $400 million. fortunately in recent years, we have had some ability to do some one-time budgeting tricks that allow us to balance the budget that do not exist this year. in past years, we've received federal stimulus money. we received more monies from the state government. last year our la