the whole city, the whole city showed up to greet me, if the whole city of washington is 500 white people. (laughter) >> stephen: and i addressed those good people on the steps of the fec which happens to be right across from the fbi, so to everyone who showed up, congratulations, you're on the no-fly list. jim, let's show these people the magic of that moment. >> as we stand here on this historic site, where 250 years ago today george washington filed his papers to form his independent expenditures, nonconnected political action committee-- (applause) >> stephen: we are also standing at an american crossroads. not to be confused with american crossroads which is the name of karl rove's superpac. now those of you who are long time supporters of colbert pac or colbert superpac, know our motto, say it with me. making a better tomorrow tomorrow. so ladies and gentlemen-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: the cynics out there are going to say tomorrow never comes. well, thanks to my lawyer trevor potter, today, tomorrow just got one day closer. of course there are some who don't want to you h

when i look at the improvements being made to the grignard, that is something that affects the whole city. so, i look at that allocation as something that is mostly for the whole city. also, boarding areas for people that occupy this land. an area that is in critical need of increased safety measures for pedestrians. i am worried that it is an accident waiting tappan. >> thank you very much. clearly, this was the case where it was a regionally significant transit hub that required a great deal of correlation. >> share of the lows, when i first started working at the authority back after lincoln's assassination, i remember raising an issue guererro street and being lectured for someone who had been here for a long time and that in san francisco, every street was a residential street and things could not be categorized in an antiseptic way. this is a neighborhood where, as you say, it is home to one of the most important rail facilities in the city, but it also has one of the highest writer should figures in the city. people that are transit users. huge numbers. it is not reasonable to subj

certain that these are distributed throughout the whole city, and i take great pride in the fact that i am the son of mexican immigrants. i have a history of working with the non-english speaking communities. it will be a priority to have the mark with this -- and i am also very sensitive to the needs of seniors. my parents will be turning in their keys very soon, and they are able to walk around and maybe depending on the system more than they do today. this is a major component of our population. i hope that will be making a better future -- for the seniors that we can anticipate. for a child that is 8 years old -- this is safe enough for everyone. i live at the top of the hill,

explained our history, what president carter did for us, and what we are doing for ourselves, joining the whole city region in celebrating asian-pacific portage month. i am so grateful to the board of supervisors for this whole four months of leaving this great city. i will say once again as i have said through many corners of the city, whether it is a town hall meeting or just your regular family association dinner, the hundreds i have been too -- i really feel proud of our asian community as a whole for allowing me to serve this great city and for all the years of struggle and coordinating and push to keep the doors of government open and to keep opportunities for many generations of asians to serve this wonderful city. thank you. i continue to thank the board of supervisors for this historic vote that happened in january. saying that, i want to kick off the celebration by doing the appropriate thing, signing the declaration that declares this month asian pacific american heritage month. i would like you to join with me the fantastic group of council generals here. if i can call up to join me -- t

they're about 32 inches square and cover the whole city in 1948 to 1950, somewhere in the mid 50s or 60's. >> to go on the resources that are available to us there's aerial photography that goes back to the -- actually pre first world war and they're amazing and held by pacific ariel survey off,,hagen burger road by the airport. what they did in the early era is they had a large format cameras that they went with the originals over the city and did long exposure photos with very high resolution lenses so when you want to find something in the archives, they'll give you aqua drant go to and a loop and you can't see much resolution but they will blow it up for you and the resolution will be so high you will be able to determine the make of many of the autos you see on the street. in the teens and 20s. >> so let's go back to learning history of your building to find out when was your buildingibility and who built it. what do you think moses? >> for the newer buildings i believe their data base comes from building permit records. >> how do people access that. >> sfgov dot org. you're goi

the responsibility is done by the city. we have three crews responsible for maintaining tens of thousands of street trees in san francisco. the three of them cover the whole city and this is an adequate for us to do this. we are supposed to do this every three-five years but with the resources that we have an only do this every 10-12 years. these go on to the backlog west, and this can take us years to get to those trees. we prioritize the safety issues first and we may not have the resources to do this. we want to relinquish this responsibility back to private property owners, this would be more equitable and more fiscally sustainable. there is a long answer to a short question. >> if anybody has questions that they would like task, we have speaker cards. i will do my best to get the mayor -- >> this is for community partners, united. four times of tight budgets with unified school district, how can the city in the san francisco unified school district elaborate partnerships for services such as family health and mental health services. in this area, when i came into office,

that is the whole city family of employees. the fear that kind of event occurs -- i think we have an opportunity in our short lifetimes to eliminate fear of seismic activity, if we plan, practice, continue exercising, if we continue the disciplined approach of reducing our risk in every way possible. and it is with your help and leadership that we can do this. thank you very much for holding this forum. thank you for having me today. i appreciate it. [applause] >> good afternoon. it is horrible being the speaker after lunch. stretch a little bit. ed and i are particularly happy to be working on so many different issues. this is probably one of the most important ones, one, that in these economic times, would be easy to forget or say. let's just hope that it does not happen on our watch. the reality is, we do not know when it is going to happen. i do not know about ed, but i answer all the phone calls in the middle of the night, even when it is the wrong number. i tried to remember to keep my satellite telephone charged in case t

part of the long-term solution i am working on is to make certain that the whole city family is working on a plan to lower the deficit as part of the increased costs. we will talk about that later and we will answer questions as well. i have a safe city i want to have, and a solvent city, and finally, we want to have a successful city. the reason that success is there is because i wanted to ask yourself, what brought you to send francisco? what made you make the investment that you made, that got you into a neighborhood? what brought me here was the excitement of being in a city that was culturally diverse. a city that respected all different cultures and ways of life. a city where you could talk to people without being offended by what people brought up. the city understanding diversity, celebrating everything that we were doing in this city. if this is going down the street in a dedicated, green lane, with huge conventions going into town, with people who can speak german and japanese, to find their way into your neighborhood with japan town -- and these great restaurants. a city with

the city. how will you balance the needs of your district with the needs of the city as a whole? >> i think my district as a microcosm in the city. if you look at the diversity of the population, class and race, you can see my district completely speaks to i think the challenges and the greatness of what san francisco presents and i don't see myself as just the district supervisor but i'm obsessed in making sure my nose is in the grind stone in dealing with issues that are very district related but i believe, though, that i speak to issues city wide just in the presentation of what i shared with you as we're surfing in our discussion here, that these issues are underpinnings i think of what challenges san francisco. what i legislate, i can legislate things that groundbreaking i have been told. like we were the first city in the united states actually in the hemisphere, i learned after the fact, to ban plastic bags. i had no idea we were going to have that kind of place in some legislative hall of fame. i had no idea about that. i had no idea that my office of interns and staff and

we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services, we will pay the price. it works out from there in terms of budget priorities. >> with your plans on dealing with homelessness? >> it is homelessness in general and behavior on the streets. we need to make sure people have access to services. i was a supp

i am hoping to be able to make certain that these are distributed throughout the whole city, and i take great pride in the fact that i am the son of mexican immigrants. i have a history of working with the non-english speaking communities. it will be a priority to have the mark with this -- and i am also very sensitive to the needs of seniors. my parents will be turning in their keys very soon, and they are able to walk around and maybe depending on the system more than they do today. this is a major component of our population. i hope that will be making a better future -- for the seniors that we can anticipate. for a child that is 8 years old -- this is safe enough for everyone. i live at the top of the hill, where i can see cars regularly come over 16th and there are traffic accidents there, regularly -- not every day, but frequently, car accidents that could've easily been prevented, with better regulation that would actually make the streets safer for drivers as well. and when the street is safer for the drivers, the transit system will benefit and become more efficient. and there

wonderful swarms is it usual practice that they bring that they bring the world cup to the to the whole city of the future olympic they usually especially with just recently build a new structure well he were building committee for the two thousand and fourteen such an olympics it was stressful of course but it was gratifying now today how is what you suppose it is going to be i mean i mean the preparation how is it different from what you really are doing was it worth it i mean i mean i'm just sick and tired of you working like twenty hours a day or you know i just simply calculated to where i will finish my mission with venus and all the games keep my fingers crossed in a little so what is older like a horse will be thirty years older. i will spend ten years for that project because i start a thousand and five and where this is the result we were going to use and commute into cells and the fifteen and then years of the most active part of my life i did it catered to this project and but this is my my own are but i mean world but this is one capacity to run successful being because it's mor

wonderful swarms is it usual practice that they bring that they bring the world cup to the to the whole city of the future limping to the usually especially with the just recently built a new structure well you were building committee for the two thousand and fourteen such an olympics it was stressful of course but it was gratifying now today how is what you suppose it is going to be i mean i mean the preparation how's it different from what you really are doing was it worth it i mean i mean i'm just sick and tired and you want to wait twenty hours a day or you know i just simply then calculate to. where i will finish my mission with every night and of the games keep my fingers crossed that you know what is altered like you're going to be fair to hear the older. i will spend ten years for the project because i started to solve and fire and. this is the dissolve our organization committee into cells and the fifteen and ten years of the most active part of my life i did a catered to this project and but it this is my and my own are to be involved but this is one capacity to run successful bein