>>authorize the general manager to execute a memorandum of understanding by and between the sfpuc and san francisco recreation and parks commission regarding management of the lake merced tract. >> and mr. ritchie >> general manager for water, this is an issue that was before the commission before and we also had as you recall a workshop in march out at lake merced to talk about the issues related to the lake and this item is as important to move forward now and really established the structure of the relationship between the puc and the recreation and parks department and relative to the mutual responsibilities out there but again, clarifies that the puc is ultimately responsible for the land out there as the owner of the property. and we made one minor change from last month, or last, july 9th we had to continue the item and added the clause that to clarified that in effect as almost a land relationship that you are sure that that rec and park would not allow the conditions to exist out there and that would be in part to make sure that we don't end up with a case of pollution or som

you know the san francisco hospital foundation the general hospital foundation has been such a wonderful wonderful entity and i want to just thank stephanie your leadership, i want to thank julie and rich at the board with all of the other board members, the staff at the hospital, all of the staph, you know sometimes the doctors have to do it's emergency work but what makes that whole hospital run is literally everybody that works at the hospital from the social workers to the accountants to the administrators to the nurses, and nurse practitioner and is the doctors and all of the fundraisers thank you everybody for working together. and for today, again, a big thanks to ellen and pam for your leadership and bringing the hearts and the heros together. it's such a wonderful just community effort to support our general hospital and all of the work that it does. everybody knows what it does already. but i also want to say there are other heros that you are acknowledging today and i would like to just give them a word of thanks. you know, when people get to the hospital, sometimes, it's in t

that concludes my portion of the general manager's report. i didn't see if linda is out there if there is a prozac report this time or not. >> [speaker not understood]. >> okay. so, we'll dispense with the prozac report and with that and turn it over to our videographer jamie hopper who will show you yet another month in rec and park. >> [speaker noundersod]. powerpoint. powerpoint. ♪ >> it's been a labor of love and we're proud to be providing this gift to the city [speaker not understood] organizations and individuals. and to the city of -- or to the children of san francisco. and i'm very proud that our neighborhood finally has a playground to call its own. >> today is play day. it is the highlight of our summer season. as you can tell it's 90 degrees and balmy here. kids have a great time. [speaker not understood], just enjoying each other and rides and games, supporting activities. >> so thrilled that this is finally reopening, the final piece of the new and revamped commission playground. i tell my colleagues on the board of supervisors

but more importantly we want to thank the san francisco general hospital foundation for the work you do everyday to support san francisco general hospital to help us to continue to pursue our wishes of helping those in need. so we we are here today because of and on behalf of daniel abraham. (applause) . and the entire small but mighty hematology, oncology division at san francisco general hospital. (applause) . >> rachel and i are proud to be part of this dedicated team team team and understand that between the patient with cancer, you must acknowledge and treat not just their bodies but their mind and their soul. you must recognize that unless patient and the family are peopleally and tactally cared for. they will not be able to survive their cancer treatment. or to face the end of their life with diggity. so, rachel and i feel very bless and had lucky to the able to work with a team of people so dedicated and providing incredible surface. to what limits this office all of the time to and patients that often have nowhere else to turn to. thank you . >> we are also here today represe

the mayor's budget includes total appropriations to the general fund reserve of $76 million. the board can reduce appropriations to budget reserves by $15 million still leaving $61 million in appropriations. in the two years ending last june the city averaged $64 million in unspent appropriations for services and supplies. the board could re-appropriate 16 of the $64 million in unspent prior year numbers and lastly by adopting moratorium on new management positions the city's general fund would realize $3.2 million in savings. with these options it shows the board has the ability to fund the 4% increase and it's the right thing to do for the city's most vulnerable populations and the nonprofits that serve them. thank you. [applause] >> supervisors i am chris daly and political director of seiu 10 to one. i am here to support community based service providers and the workers providing these most critical front line services in a plea -- in a plea for a bit more dignity in their critical work. we're asking this committee to include a 4% cost of doing business, increasing the bud

says that the general managers of the puc and rpd will join with the reports no later than november 18th each year that it is in place, covering the work program completing and source of funds and facilities kfn and capital repair and the placement needs and activities that reporting would give both commissions the ability to track the progress at the tract. and we think that is a good addition to the mlu here. and that will be happy to answer any questions. >> any questions? >> yeah, i have a couple of questions. so the $2 million bond discussion, is that something that is going to happen and do swre that calendar? >> we actually, the general manager of the recreation department is here and i am sure that he will be able to speak to that item. >> great. >> and maybe i will just finish asking you a couple of questions and i noted that there are probably some people here, i don't know from the lake merced task force who are going to speak to this as well but i remember asking i believe it was last year, a year ago, probably for what the rec and park plan is as it relates to sort of the co

our volunteer division and our gardeners to cultivate the next generation. a big shout out to kimberly keefr who run the team for the recreation and park department. last week we sell bralted the yacht harbor and it was a fantastic event. other upcoming events, also as commissioner brul noted, park play ground, we should coordinate these things before we get up here. >> it was saying twice. >> saturday july 20, this is a big -- we had a lot of support from this from the water front community who really drove this project. of san francisco parks alliance has been an important person in adding a program. on august 3rd we get to cut a ribbon on the cabrille la park play ground. so the -- all of your work and leadership on the 2008 and 2012 is here. we've received our 4th quarter park maintenance -- our park score is 91.24 percent. a one percent increase over last time. and our rating for the year three quarters up from last year. we abtamed our goal and it has been nearly three years since someone had below that in our parks. speaking of parks, in partnership wi

with regard to the issue of pla's for energy projects both generation and energy efficiency, you know, the labor representatives were helpful in sharing some examples of project labor agreements that they have with other jurisdictions, both private and public, but nothing has been resolved in these conversations. city rules require certain requirements to be met before a city agency could enter into a pla, it's certainly a considerable amount of work on our part if we were to engage in that effort and quite honestly, we're not sure that all conditions could be met, and so with that, i'll turn it back to the general manager, thank you. >> so, the last thing i would like to say is i really want to thank our staff who has worked tirelessly in coming up with the balancing the three items about being a green, affordable and have opportunity for green jobs and i just want to commend the staff and say thank you for all your hard work, it's been a pleasure working with you guys. so, with that, i'll turn it over to you. >> alright, i have a question for our city attorney who's here with us tod

>>authorize the general manager to implement changes to gosolarsf, the city's solar incentive program. the gosolarsf program adjustments are prompted by changes in the solar market and the need for the solar incentive rate structure to be more effective and reach more customers. >> manager for power and i am here seeking changes to the practice and in quick summary, the changes are to reduce all of the (inaudible) levels so that the they do not exceed the average cost to provide the incentives that are paid by the system size range to encourage them based on the consumption. and to require a minimum design of 68 percent to proside them for the projects that are installed to maximize the energy generation and this will avoid providing insensitives to customers with roof tops that are ill suited for solar. we have a lengthy presentation that you have in the packets and the copies of which have been on the table since 1:30. and the proposed changes were presented and discussed with the community at stake holders advisory committee and i can stop there and take questions and comments, or

dempsey, and i defer to the general and would like to ask the general, was very skeptical. he talked about the billions of dollars in costs involved. he talked about the unknown outcomes. and as a matter of fact, more recently than that in that letter we all know about and talked about to a great extent to elliott angel, the top democrat on the house foreign affairs expressed a great deal of skepticism about the riz.com of questioning what the president is considering, a cruise missile strike because you are taking the lid off of all of these disparate elements, hezbollah, al-qaeda on opposite sides, iran, syria, the regional conflagration there that seems to never end and the competing factors, the proxy war between those different sectors as well as geopolitical aspect of bringing in russia. so dempsey made illusion to all of that with a very skeptical eye. now, obviously, the chairman of joint chiefs of staff, the one given orders by the president is going to present the president with the options, but how much impact, i wonder, does the general think that had on congre

that carries all content it focused on asian arts and we appreciate the work so i want to invite the generalager of mixed city. thank you for your work >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you for this amazing honor. mixed tv has grown so much over the year and 10 millions of household and chicago but san francisco has a special place in our hearts. and she works with me on mixed tv. we had our first major launch on 2009. we also had our first major event that won lots of awards but san francisco is where we start mixed tv so basically thank you to the city of san francisco. the bay area apa committee for your support and we hope to continue wreaking down barriers for the asian communicate. thank you so much. (clapping) >> so i want to name my two amazing co- chairs i know that they were here. once you're part of us you never get to leave. i want to thank all of them. we have actually over 70 or 80 volunteers but they're all over at city hall for us to get there. some of us are sitting in front of commuter with facebook and twittering but once in a while a lot of the responsibilities i wish who

the secretary general spoke briefly with dr. emical weapons team arrived in the netherlands. this was simply to say thank you to the team. the secretary general will be briefed in more detail by the secretary tomorrow. that is being done by telephone. you will not be hearing personally. that is what i have for you tomorrow. to update you on one other aspect. the team in the netherlands will be spending the da dayco lathindaycolatingthe samples. i have am happy to take questions. please use the microphone. >> thank you for briefing us. thank you. >> yesterday, the secretary of state john kerry has said clearly there is nothing that the inspectors can tell them they don't know already. the manner does not include finding who used the chemical weapon. only if it was used or not. the administration has concluded that the chemical weapons have been used. my question is why doesn't the united nations and the secretary-general step up to the plate and expand the mandate of the inspectors to include finding out who is the culprit that us

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the law itself is part of a general crackdown. there's been several pieces of legislation, laws, against n.g.o.s, against public protests. >> ifill: non-governmental organizations. >> non-governmental organizations, against different forms of public protests, new restrictions on the internet. it's come to a head because to remain in power and remain the dominant party at all levs putin's government needs to clamp down and it needs to find internal enemies and try to change the subject away from things like transparency or elections or government accountability. >> woodruff: is this a sentiment that runs deeper than the moscow elites or the government? is this something that is speaking to the underlying general feeling within the russian population? >> there's polling that finds -- russian society is very homophobic still. they find most russians consider homosexuality to be a disease or perversion. it's trying to show it as a kind of type of foreign influence. what putin has done is to try to use -- to try to create a narrative of

do you know where the hub is for all of the generation of all of the server farms and stuff like that? that's in bayview hunters point. so, all the server farms and the big digital lines so that you can process your cell phones and everything is right there in bayview hunters point and it's not another facility in the city like that. and they have diesel generators that carry like tons of diesel fuel right in bayview. and yet we are insufficiently trained and insufficiently accessed -- you know, these tech firms. and, so, here we are. we're doing this and are we going to stand to make sure that we give the best opportunity for san franciscans to engage in this and make sure since this is such an expensive city to live n we create living wage jobs for these people so that they can. cu ~ that's what i'm about. if it's about what these recs matter in term of your, you know, what your goals are, then my goals are what they initially said when they voted on it, which was a cadillac, as far as i was concerned. now we're coming back and, you know, i'm looking at an escort, you know. so, i wa

>> we actually, the general manager of the recreation department is here and i am sure that he will be able to speak to that item. >> great. >> and maybe i will just finish asking you a couple of questions and i noted that there are probably some people here, i don't know from the lake merced task force who are going to speak to this as well but i remember asking i believe it was last year, a year ago, probably for what the rec and park plan is as it relates to sort of the concession of the rfps and the financials and whatnot. and i assume that is what is part of the plan that is presented. >> yes, the concession management and that will be part of the package and so i think that he will be able to respond to that question. >> great, i am curious when we will hear a greater level of detail on what the actual work plan will be moving forward. >> great. eif you address those two questions, that would be great, thank you. >> thank you, scott james, general manager, and the parks department and first of all we are grateful for this commission and department staff for your partnership and a

to allow in the early year as new generation is being built, to have the utilities have more options in their procurement on where they're buying from. but over time, as resources come online there's less and less need for an unbundled rec in that bucket 3. >> and, so, just so that i understand, there is a greenhouse gas difference between bucket 1, bucket 2 and bucket 3? >> between the buckets there is not necessarily a greenhouse gas difference. there's other environmental differences, but not greenhouse gas. greenhouse gas is a global issue. so, it doesn't really matter where the -- i keep using wind farm. whatever the renewable facility s it doesn't matter where the facility is, as long as it's offsetting fossil fuel generation in that area, you're going to get a greenhouse gas reduction. and because it still has to come from an eligible renewable resource as we define it, even unbundled rec will offset the need for fossil fuel generation from places. again, it is important how a contract is constructed. there are ways to -- there have been some in the past some utility contracts

this is for you to transfer that approved money into the concession contingencies and authorized general manager so we can start using it and the use of that is when we came for the notice of change, we explained to you that these are the potential or pending change orders, approved change orders, i think was approved somewhere in april 12, so that's what this item is, i would be glad to give you the response to your questions and reasons for these changes, you already have been briefed by julie, the gas tunnel is the water seepage as well as the harder rocks which we are encountering, for your information, the project now is 83% complete. we have lost less of 900 feet to do it, but this seems to be the most challenging at this moment because of the water seepage. >> not the harder rock, the water seepage? >> the harder rock is also part of it but i think water is what's most challenging now. >> any questions? any public comment? is there a motion? >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner caen, seconded by commissioner moran, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. . er aye. >> opposed?

he's from the second generation of japanese-americans. his parents emigrated from hiroshima to the u.s. they were made prisoners in their adopted home. now he has returned to hiroshima. >> we are probably the last generation of people that experienced the story ourselves in our personal lives and our family. and if we don't tell that story, who will? >> reporter: breaking the silence, dramatizing the hardship that three generations of japanese-americans endured and overcame. actors have performed the play more than 200 times over nearly three decades in the united states. the show in hiroshima will be the first premiere abroad. ♪ >> like most newcomers, early japanese came to america full of hope. >> reporter: 340,000 japanese went to america before the second world war. many worked on farms, but laws prohibited them from owning land or even becoming american citizens. >> no japs! >> go home! >> go home, japs! >> reporter: he lived in seattle with his parents and brothers. the u.s. entered the war in 1941 after japan attacked pearl harbor.

less communicating with the general, the president sent a strong message to the generals today. entice the muslim brotherhood who has a coup followed by violence against them, how do you entice them back in to the political process so you get to where everyone wants, a return to civilian rule and democracy. the conditions are getting worse in terms of the ability to do that. >> with this a coup in egypt? >> of course it was. >> was this a coup in egypt, aaron? >> was it a coup? >> yes, it was. >> if the law will stipulate that it's a coup, u.s. military aid should stop. >> yes. and the administration has found, because of its own conception of what constitutes american national interest around that. it's walking a fine balance. the law is the law, no question about it. is the president obligated to follow it? have you seen a grassroots movement in congress or among the american public to suspend military systems? egypt? the answer is no. and there are reasons for that. >> part of this is about the credibility of the united states. if you don't call this a coup, you are never goi

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