i do support the local hire advisory committee. we need to make sure that we have the pipeline as full as it can be for local residents and making sure as well that women can also get higher levels of employment in the construction trades. that's one thing the reports emn trades. that is one thing the report looked at. we need to look good veterans as well, veterans who are in need. the challenge is still ahead. i look forward to rolling up my sleeves and a working with the administration to make that happen. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. as you heard, supervisor of loews and merely talk about the city build students -- supervisor avalos and mayor lee talking about the city build students. we're proud to work on our construction project. i now next want to bring up to the stage jason chan, a current city billed student. this class is going to graduate in june. -- a current city build student. at this class will graduate in june. [applause] good morning. thank you, mayor lee, office of workforce and economic developme

the local people still are hesitant. so the army's playing a strong role. they are pretty well respected. but we're working through that stage of moving the army out and having the police do more of law enforcement rather than combat operations. but that's where the local home grown pashtuns are going to focus their efforts. >> yes, question in the back. >> good morning, general. i'm originally from afghanistan. i work as a subject matter expert at the marine university in quantico, virginia. welcome back home. it's a very good presentation. very motivational. i mean, we -- for a long time, we saw good news coming from home. so what -- how do we convince the american public? how do we send these images into the american media so that we can convince them to stay committed to -- or have some more patience to -- in this fight against terror? thank you. >> well, i guess that's one reason why i'm on this tour here for the next ten days, is to get around and try and get the word out to a variety of different people. i also -- i told the marines that -- folks tha

thanks a lot. >> bravo to special forces and the afghan local police. why the half con trukted buildings fr -- constructed buildings from the economy are contributing to the insurgency after this. >> kt mcfarland in new york who won in kabul today? >> i have been in all of the places that were attacked today. i would say the afghan national army won in the immediate sense that they put it down, but the taliban won in the wrolong run they sent two signals for the united states that that there is going to be a civil war the minute we leave and will the united states continue to fund the government after we leave and sent a message to the afghan people pick your sides alliance, karzai, haqqan i network so in the long run the taliban won. >> pretty grim, casey. local businessman do you think the taliban is going to make a civil war here? >> i don't think so. the people in afghanistan won't accept that any more. it's my view that there might be an attempt but i don't believe that it will be a taliban like we used to. >> is business ruined by this fighting? >>

it is not covered by the local hiring policy but the union is -- the unions doing the work are carpentersposed basic craft agreement is -- which is the way that we would like to see them sign an commit to those bleachers. it is work that has to be done the right way, the right wages, and a question we do not know but it would be important, as the basic craft agreement been signed? let's move forward. thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. having gone through the workforce development plan, the latest generation, it has gone through a lot of improvement. no longer a hearing to the good faith efforts that were part of the draft several months ago and now complies to local hiring ordinance. we commend the authority and -- for taking the right steps in making sure hiring can happen on the permit construction work. there is one small typo in the actual draft that we did notice. that is on page 19 of the workforce development plan. if you go through page 342 of the entire package, it is a lot of pages to go through. there is a section on contractual obligations.

i do support the local hire advisory committee. we need to make sure that we have the pipeline as full as it can be for localsi

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the last few years have had a devastating affect on so many members of my local. well nothing can get back what many have lost, rebuilding is a step in the right direction. this is a great opportunity to move forward, getting our members back to work, and restoring hope. let's get this project going and get workers and their families back on track. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners and president fong. i am a local six member. i live and work in san francisco. today i stand in front of you speaking in favor of cpmc. on behalf of the industry, tim donovan and -- i speak on behalf of them. as an industry will invest over $1 million into our pressure program. from that program, we provide -- we have been providing top- quality germany -- journeyman into the industry. we will stay operating during this expansion as planned. this project will benefit the city and the community. it will also provide much needed work for us. i urge you to initiate cpmc. thank you. >> after this speaker, our next speakers. >> thank you. good afternoon. i am presently studying at city c

the charity care is still ridiculously low, the local hiring is still ridiculously low. the transit impacts are extreme in my neighborhood. the last thing, the most important thing is to get back into this idea that we are somehow moving this forward for earthquake safety. what is happening here is a major centralization of hospital services in one spot. what we need to do is beef up city looks to more than it is right now, not less. put it back up to the state they used to be in, serving the community. the key problem here is that when we centralize hospital services in one giant facility, on van ness, which is going to lock up during an earthquake, that facility is going to -- cpmc will make other facilities smaller in the city and then the big facility will be competing with other facilities, making them possibly fail or get smaller. in the case of a major earthquake, that would be a serious mistake. we all know why cavalcades of people are here speaking in favor. this is a project that could harm thousands of lives in the case of a major earthquake if you allow it to

what's the role of local news as you see the video marketplace maturing? >> i've always thought, as people said, that local broadcasting, local television stations, were going to be outmoded. were probably in all these new development areas were going to be antiquity. and i've always felt otherwise. because the strongest local television stations are the ones that provide the most news and information and community programming. and so i think that is -- continues to be very vibrant. and clearly, if you look at the success of any television station in any market, they are more dependent upon their ability to deliver news than they are having to hit a television program of the moment. >> senator, i find that based on just viewing in the greater seattle area where two of us live, or actually i guess -- you work for one, i live in seattle. the local stations are utilizing online now for a depth of local news that is impractical on-air. so there is barely ten minutes that goes by in a broadcast of a local independent or affiliate station that does not refer to t

in many cases, they turned taliban because the leadership in the local level at the time was abusive, totalitarian, author tarrian government. what we're seeing now is they're wanting to come back into the fold. and it's all a result of making some progress. so there will be a taliban will exist. they'll always be -- i don't understand it but they'll always be people willing to kill themselves. to put a suicide vest on or drive a suicide vehicle. and they abuse that. the senior taliban abuse that. but i think they'll always be peep peeple willing to conduct that business. we always make sure to maintain our guard. so i'll end it there. but i mean -- i'll end it there. >> thanks. any questions from the audience? yes, in the second row here. >> hi, my name is -- [ inaudible ] hi, jegeneral, my name is gretcn peters. [ inaudible ] if you could describe the nature of the enemy there. 'cause when i communicate with folks out in helmand these days, a lot of areas they seem to be -- the groups that they're fighting seem to be as much local criminal organizations, drug trafficking networks an

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it's driving the local farmers off their land. a small number of investors make good money from the shrimp, which is exported to japan and europe. but the operations leave the soil even saltier than before. >> this is an ugly face of the globalization. unfortunately, the price that has been paid for shrimp doesn't really cover those, whose livelihoods have been shattered because of higher salinity, and they had to leave. and mostly, they have migrated to urban areas, and they generally live in shanty slums, and their living conditions are horrendous. >> clean water is scarce. most families in rural areas wash themselves in ponds like this one. but the dirty water makes them ill. gastrointestinal and skin problems are widespread. so ahsan and his co-workers are setting up tanks that filter groundwater. twenty families come here every day to collect drinking water. >> climate change is causing lots of problems for us. farmers used to work this whole area here, but it's not possible now. it's almost all shrimp farming. we can't even g

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instead, the increase access to resources locally and globally through market driven and volunteer-based platforms that unleashed the creativity of citizens to create an exchange value directly with each other. it is very adaptable to local conditions. with this economic shift, there is also a cultural shift. we are rediscovering that the good life is about the basic things like health and family, community, purposeful work, friendship, spiritual expression. we are discovering access better supports the pursuit of happiness than ownership. let me talk about -- let me give you a couple of examples and the potential impact to give a feel of how this could be a fix. cars sharing is a really good thing to look at. it is the archetype of the sharing economy. it has been around for a while. the research has come out recently. a uc-berkeley study showed once shared car replaces nine to 13 owned cars. 50% of households who joine, joined to get access to a car that did not have access to the car. the total household the account in the sample size was about 6000. it dropped by 50%. another study f

the definition of a local resident under this plan. it was mentioned that the language around what makes a local resident comes in the ordinance from voter registration. i want to make sure the commission is aware, it is not enough to live in san francisco for weeks to become a local. you have to make the city your domicile. a driver's license, a long with a second form of proof of intent, such as a utility bill or a lease. it has worked really well. local hire increased 70% in the first year. with respect to the project itself, we share a lot of the concerns that have been raised about the project. but i cannot overstate the importance of this project for our unemployed tradespeople, who are sitting idle. we aren't a period it where we are in protracted unemployment and construction. the cpmc is a private project, it complemented by creating a lot of jobs for a lot of workers. it is at the point when the concerns were real. the potential for a larger st. luke's, increased charity care, an important part of this discussion. some of the

we have leveraged almost $1 billion with the local resources. that is not a small task given the amount of funding we have contributed. in terms of the pipeline in the future, we predict about 730 units to be completed by the end of this year. these are broken down into family units, a senior units, and supportive housing units. those are the target populations we serve. with in 2013, another almost 500 units will be completed. by 2014, over 5000. in 2015, some projects have yet to be entitled. we're only projecting 500. that number will likely increase. after 2015, when we take into account housing parcells the mayor's office has taken over, we will be developing almost 9000 within the foreseeable future of affordable housing units. related to rhna, you can see the units completed and the pipeline. it says about 9800. we have about 1900 units that have committed funding. another 3400 have un committed funds. we do have funding sources identified. i will turn it back to olson for the conclusion. >> in conclusion, we agree with a budget analyst's

that is where you find the locals taking responsibility for their homes. it is interesting because the average pashtun does not want to leave home. as americans, it is tough to realize some of these people do not want to leave home if they are transferred. we have to understand and respect that. that is a challenge. they do not like leaving home. home is home. we're trying to make sure the pashtun are in the police in the afghan army moves out of the population centers. we're not at the point where police are conducting criminal investigations, collecting evidence, doing the paperwork. it is still a work in progress. the police are still working through the history of corruption. the local people are still hesitant. the army is still playing a strong role. they are well respected. we're working through the state of moving the army out and having the police do more law enforcement rather than combat operations. that is where the local homegrown pashtuns will focus their efforts. >> we have a question in the back. >> good morning, general. i am originally fro

with the locally based credit union, 75% of deposits go to loans to other local members. chase bank's h.q. is on the other side of the country. although hundreds of my neighbors feel what happened at davis darro was a misinterpretation of formula retail law, the zoning administrator said the best way was move forward was to add financial services as a specific use and that's what we're doing here today. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. dean preston, resident of district 5. i thank supervisor mar for his leadership on this issue and supervisor olague for co-sponsoring the legislation. i support it 100%. and i'm not going to reiterate all the compelling arguments that have been made for why it's a no-brainer that formula retail -- i'm sorry -- that financial services needs to be subject to the same formula retail conditional use hearing that any other formula retail business is currently subject to. i did want to take issue with the proposal by the planning department staff on striking the sales and service retail provision and i thi

these days he's employed at the local vessels it's unqualified. work and doesn't pay well he used to work as a barber in the past but hasn't managed to find a job in his former profession you know what about it many new i will see either way is a paradise but in reality you have to be were away from morning until night for a pittance here you drag out a miserable existence. relations between two museums and locals are very strange the terms to new zealand neighborhood has exploded since their spring illegal migrants periodic lee rounded up. some time ago police arrested me in hospital no less can you imagine that. because you're an illegal immigrant yes i had no papers on me. the small town with a population of fifty thousand is now divided into two parts to museums live on the outskirts locals are concentrated in the center the two communities rarely interact . more parallel worlds and parallel realities to museums on one hand and we old timers on the other they live in isolation and for the customs we live by. besides their way of life doesn't qu

we found, um, the same thing. i mean, local tea party groups in some ways remind me of the new left groups that i saw when i was a young, young person many decades ago. they're very per nickty -- persnickety and suspicious of higher manipulation. and that goes for the republican party, certainly, but it also goes for outside groups that try to speak in their name. we found varying levels of wareness in the local -- of awareness in the local groups of tea party patriots which is the one that tries to reach out to the local groups and to create more of a state presence. some of them usually had heard from them, but some in virginia were not willing to join the conference calls and were not willing to be part of it whereas others were. things like americans for prosperity, freedomworks, the cato and heritage institutes in washington, we find them mentioned on web sites, and we tallied that. but it usually was just a link, not a presence. now, i think there's a lot of variety in this. i have to say that i believe americans for pros

their way of life doesn't quite fit into the local environment. so no there's no problem don't be afraid tourists are the only outsiders to enter the to see a neighborhood as a result they go there at the weekends and stay there only during the daytime are you from a. no. you're from sicily where from palermo. jamal takes tourists on a brief guided tour of his neighborhood they see a different way of life one that they don't find in sicily's capital of palermo. look at the way people live here senor isn't it in one year everything here seems to be on the verge of collapse. football in the courtyard is one of the few diversions for teenagers living in the too noisy and neighborhood there are no playgrounds for children here people living in nearby houses have no complaints about the noise made by the footballers. most of the parents of these children work on fishing boats they stay at sea from early morning until late at night. all these guys have a problem they were deprived of the hope for a dignified future yes they do go to school but they can't

so we're programming resources directly through the local government so that the local government can build infrastructure projects to support the community. and at the same time we have an independent verifier. one of the ngos, winrock, provides that oversight to make sure that there's strict accountability of the money that usa is providing. so i just wanted to highlight that as one success on the reforms of a.i.d. in addition to working directly with the local governments, we're also working with a wide range of partners, some 20 ngos, to i

i am a member of the stationary engineers local 39. we have then -- we have been out on the line for a little over a month now. we have been without a contract for almost two years. everybody wants a new hospital. we want a new hospital. but at what cost? when this hospital gets built, what happens to the california campus and the pacific campus and the employees that work there? they are not guaranteed jobs. we want the hospital to be built, but it to be built right. they are not going about it the right way. it is up to you to make sure that things go the right way. not having them under cut employees and the neighborhood and everything. thank you. >> how are you doing, commissioners? i am a san francisco resident. i am a member of 1 04. my wife worked at cpmc for four years. i attend a program designed to train and put san francisco residents to work in the construction field. i got an opportunity to join a great company. i recently became an apprentice local hire is important because it is important for families and it keeps the mon

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