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as far as their contract with the city through our office, they are required to do a mid- year report, an annual report and an audit each year. their contract requires them to have an annual hearing at the board of supervisors so the public can -- you can hear about their work and the public can provide testimony on the work of the organization in terms of administering the district. you have already heard most of this. this is a seven year district and expires in 2013. it is managed by private, nonprofit organization called the central market committee benefit organization. they provide assessment funds and they have an average annual budget of 900,000 over the past five years. these are their programs and i am not going to go over this anymore. it is their public beautification and streetscape improvements. we got help from the comptroller's office, said the services of a tradition and spirit is. a copy of the report is included in your pocket. and their plans for carry over funds from year to year. the central market community benefit corporation is required to have 5% of their inc

cities work. there are some that pertain to transportation. by getting asked questions about how he would make decisions, participants are shaping their own city. >> after spending 10 weeks in new york, it will close up shop and move on to berlin and then mumbai. it is an urban experience -- experiment with global designs. >> there are accessibility issues. what we have seen in new york is to make people more vocal, have them speak up about their life in the city. >> organize what businesses to leave the facility inspired. >> failure of greece would be familiar for all of europe, that was the message from nicolas sarkozy today. the latest european leader to be paid a visit by the greek prime minister. mr. sarkozy pledged that he will meet the german chancellor in the coming days to discuss the debt crisis. as the euro zone tries to put its financial house in order, many analogies have been made to the economic crisis of 2008. since president obama took office, the economy has been the administration's concern. this is the subject of a new book. the author joins me now to discuss it. opinion polls showed that confidence and the government's abi

>> san franciscans are incredibly interested in their city government, local politics, and making suret we remain the most amazing city in the world. i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail. they love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with them. i learned how important it is to build bridges between different communities, particularly communities of diversity that we have. i was incredibly honored to have been elected in november of 2008. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i consider myself someone who shares the progressive values that many sentences can hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world region that many sentences skins hold dear. we have been a beacon to the rest of the world for those. >> you are president of the board. describe the role of the opposition and the responsibilities that come with being the president of the board of supervi

broader economic region, not just within their city limits. so how do you coordinate with the communities around you to advance some of these policy issues, whether it's transportation, environmental improvements, economic development, education systems, workforce training, etc. these are some of the issues that we really want to publicize the best practices so that practitioners such as ourselves can bring these ideas back home and really move an issue forward. i think here in the bay area, bringing this group of four european experts here has really been an interesting exercise for me, not knowing the city of oakland very much at all, having been to san francisco a few times, but it really is -- i do think that the communities here are poised to really be sort of going over the crest of the hill in terms of moving this issue forward. and i think hopefully these four will serve as sort of a catalyst in your community to get the community talking about what is possible and how some of these ideas may be adapted to your local community. nothing

move forward we need to pay special attention to the outlying areas of the city, to make sure there are options there to reduce their emissions as well. we need to lead by example internally. there is a luxury or pressure by the city to have these be recycling programs and composting. we were one of the biggest waste generators in the city, and now we are one of the smallest. we are also working with the public utilities commission on our routes. we are working with the department of the environment. we have a green roof on our office. we have a tremendous success with our transit. it is one of the greenest in the country. we work with restaurant tours to get the grease from their -- we work with restaurants to get the grease from their restaurants to fuel our fleet. our taxi fleet is the greenest in the country. 80% is green vehicles, hybrids or alternative vehicles. we have some very stringent construction guidelines for our agency. we have also submitted ourselves to the sustainability commitment to the american public transit association. they have levels of commitment similar to the leed standards. we will qual

it is about radiation and the impact of the cellular antennas on their cities and to try to address it, i think, by -- i do not the they are trying to influence the federal legislation, but i think they are trying to explore what parameters they have to see if they have more, i guess more approval leeway in some fashion. president olague: and if you can exchange information with your neighbor and have some dialogue with her. as the commissioner of dph, you may be able to explain some of the health impacts and the laws that govern this whole thing. he is sitting back there. before you leave, you should exchange information. commissioner antonini. >commissioner antonini: move to approve. >> thank you. >> motion for approval. commissioner antonini. >> yes. >> commissioner fong:. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. president olague. >> thank you. but these are approved. if you're standing by the door, if you could find a seat in the room, we would appreciate it. if there are no seats, if you could stand on the opposite side of the room so that you do not create a hazard in case of an

had the same two goals in mind, honor those who have died and push for the violence to stop in their city. a fallen procession lead church. they are paying respects to esparza, a member of their congregation. he was gunned down three blocks away from his church. and among those in the procession and the following street side vigil is his wife. thanks to everyone for your support she says of her fellow parishioners who turned out for the vigil. she says she is overwhelmed by the idea of having to raise two sons now alone. >> we just want to support her family and let the community know that we are done with this. we want this to stop. >> reporter: the idea behind this vigil and all of the people turning out. they want to bring focus to this incident, but also make sure no future shootings occur in oakland. and that's behind this vigil, 10 miles away on the north side of oakland. 175 candles are lit and laid out, one candle for every person murdered in the city in the last year and a half. one is set for leb -- lewis. he was shot feet from this vigil. carla taylor is his mother. >> when ama

you if warriors then utilize their newly learned skills to lead you to advocacy day here in city hall on wednesday april 6, an historic day of youth civic engagement when high-school students met with their elected officials to talk about the issues they care about. on youth advocacy day, you for years led interactive workshops with high school students and city government and also help students prepare for their meetings with elected officials. they met with officials from some various departments, members of the board of supervisors, and mayor edwin lee. mayor li was gracious enough to address all of the participants. he shared his history and inspiring words about the importance of youth in city politics. i am happy to share with you today that mayor lee is here to help celebrate youth warriors. [applause] throughout the fellowship, youth warriors also has the opportunity to meet other youth leaders throughout the city and share the wonderful work they are doing to run the city. this past thursday, the youth warriors and a group of leaders went to sacramento to our state capital to

unless the orders came from washington, they would get information that was pertinent to their city. that was all the information he told me that i can speak in a public forum about. i hope i answered your question. president mazzucco: thank you. >> is there -- do we get called? commissioner terman: to be clear, commander, i have seen a resolution. this is signed or not signed by the u.s. attorney? >> it is signed by the mayor of portland. >> not bare we having a debate? that was the question i had. we are getting far afield. we're in public comment regarding items that we have moved away from. the question has been answered. the one-sided document signed only by the mayor. >> can i suggest we get this back on the calendar in a couple of weeks? it is probably not appropriate for further discussion now but i think we should have it back on the calendar for two weeks. we just had a discussion about the calendar but if two weeks does not work, maybe three weeks out. and i will see my concern is not whether there is or is not a resolution. i know there is. my concern is whether the poor

their city is, unfortunately, dealing with some very challenging buildings, a lot of cement construction there that is problematic. their risk is maybe less of happening in the near future than ours, but they have expressed interest in partnering with us, that we could share our process that we have worked on for so long, and provide them a template to help them define their inventory, setting forth a similar recovery program. that is really what, i think, this is about. we have focused on our own inventory buildings, making it safer, but because of the process, are able to share that template with other cities that are at risk. i think that is an exciting part of this, that we can be one of the folks at the cutting edge of this, to try to get then head of an event, preparing for an earthquake. this is a wonderful complement to our city, that vancouver has asked for our assistance. thank you for taking it on and making it available, and for making our cities save, as well as for cities that face similar challenges. >> we are happy to share information. we gain as much as that -- from tha

chemical melt down spent 20 tons of gas into their city. they are leading the fight to send justice to their people and the worst fate. mothers carry poisons in their breasts. she accepted the 2004 environmental prize. we are not expendable. we are not flowers offered at the profit and power. we are dancing flames commitmented to darkness and the magic and mystery of life. women have long been slain at the environmental health and justice, from rachel to louis and the family of love canal. to the women of india and around the world fighting to clean up dangerously contaminated community. today more women have more power than ever before, especially more economic power and political power, women can shift the balance of power and change the face of the future. we are the once we have been waiting for as the poet june jordan. if we can bring ourselves to great clarity as to cause and effect. the environment is us, it is our wombs, our breast milk and families. our children to thrive in our bodies, unpolluted. the beauty industry and on to the

their bicycles. while we initially had a finite demographic, it has broadened to every part of the city. we've seen every demographic. mothers with children. seniors. people who claim to be disabled cannot walk very far but can ride a bicycle. we are going to see a broader application of bicycling in the city. we wanted to push them forward. here was the existing bicycle route network. we're basically seeing a more comprehensive network. we are 50% of the way there. we have completed more than half of the near-term projects. we are excited to wrap up. what do we do next? how we push the little beyond 5% and get to 15%? on taxi every charge in situations, our strategy is working on greening the taxi fleet. taxis on average drive six times more than residents. there are six times more opportunities to green our taxi fleet than the private vehicle fleet. not to say we should not do that, but in a constrained environment of resources, it is good policy to work on those flights. we support the expansion of electrical vehicle charging for the entire public. that gives you a broad overview, qui

. >>> well tonight, students at two schools in the county school district will find out if their city will be closed. they contributed to $8,000 and that school is facing for close sure -- foreclosure again. however they may still decide to close label men triand use the money saved to restore come of the program -- restore some of the programs that were cut. >> obviously there are issues around safety. >> reporter: now a school in panel will be shut down and at 8:30 they will take a vote on the issue. >>> a man suspected in a homicide is due in court today. incriminating text messages led to the arrest of jaun who was already in custody on unrelated charges. they say he viciously beat someone during a home invasion. he died after two weeks after the attack. his daughter survived. the second suspect died in an unrelated gun battle from last year. >>> they are forcing an oakland family to search for a new place to live. both homes were damaged but nobody was hurt. it took a half hour to control it and the cause is still under investigation. >>> recovering after a car ran her down while

and i would almost the entire lokomotiv team plus key staff went down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to minsk the tragedy has engulfed the world with players and staff from several countries losing their lives while russia has been shocked at yet another plane disaster in one hundred thousand attended a remembrance ceremony for the city's sporting heroes. thomas was there. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all their games for us is their operable loss but it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left how could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. at just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire jaroslava locomotive k h l hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff bursting into a ball of fla

these days we certainly do and of course the angry new yorkers that you never hear about they get their city or their neighborhoods taken over by the u.n. g.a. everywhere but you're there filling us then that was our t. correspondent and it's going to from new york now every year when has its punching bags and for the u.s. that has often been iran now we heard republican presidential candidate michele bachmann just yesterday calling on president obama to block the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad from speaking at the united nations she said he has violated the u.n. charter and international law so he should be able to speak now in fact it is bachmann who is calling for a violation of the law as the site of the u.n. is international territory and because of that the u.s. is actually obligated to allow access for leaders whether michele bachmann likes them or not to get to the bottom though of why iran is such a target for the u.s. and what this could lead to christine fears outbreaks at all. just about everywhere you look at iran it continues to develop nuclear weapons someone whether po

syrian troops have intensified their crackdown on the volatile city of homs with up to twenty people killed in the latest round of violence i could say government forces are hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition this after president assad's government delayed a planned ira league visit expected to begin wednesday last month syrian authorities rejected an arab league statement calling for an end to the bloodshed and. as the u.s. prepares to mark ten years since the nine eleven attacks the results of what president george w. bush dubbed war on terror are coming under some scrutiny a decade of military campaigns overseas has been accompanied by headlines of civilian deaths secret prisons and alleged torture we begin our special coverage of the anniversary artie's guide each to qian takes a look at whether any of that succeeded in making the u.s. a safer place. i mean one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history ushered in a decade of anti terror campaigns across the globe. but is america and the world now a safer place ten years on the most recent nine elev

this is their story. as a city continues to mourn one very dedicated group of young men have chosen to honor their heroes in a unique way by getting back on the ice with the book leave it by the book at the coach told us if we should go out onto the ice and we play for all the guys who lost their lives in these prayers of the stars who told us we were in for them as we play our best for these players practicing fear is special as it was from this barrier you know for the doomed team gone their skates for the final time. i met them on the fifth and sixth of september their training sessions before misc they were confident and quite optimistic and determined all of them were very high spirits. one coach working with this new scheme was supposed to be on the flight and though he is back working now his thoughts are still strong for those affected by this tragic loss i think it said hard hearted but a lot older than family. relatives or so i felt very serious wish them the. strength to. go on i'm a mom i'm going to mis

previous form around those are preparing for an advance of on the gadhafi loyalist wrong hole of their city has been under siege for almost a week with many residents fleeing their homes meanwhile colonel can obvious former prime minister has reportedly been sentenced to six months in prison in tunisia for entering the country illegally would all go down he was arrested near the border with syria on wednesday for not having a visa for balance of the pows leader and self remains unknown. well that brings us to the point where we need to get to know what's happening in the world of business maureen is here with us. hello and welcome sir business here on our at c the global financial system as looking down the barrel of another possible recession for the global market seen significant losses and russia of course is no exception moreover the ruble hasn't seen its lowest level against the u.s. dollar and see yours but flooding that's a commuter flight that creates believes that whatever happens this time russia will be better prepared and the names. now in the except shown that in russia the mys

station the rocky bank of the colin model river it takes four and a half hours by air to get and their city has enough laboratory attracts scientists college students from all over the world. they are interested in similar studies of permafrost anomalous and valleys the fact that the station is far removed from civilization nearly every summer college students come here from the united states to work in various international projects. where you live is that for a claim or all as well but where you go to school of a city is that this is a bit and then that you as the wire. plasticine park is one of said gazing off so most ambitious projects in recent years he has been doing his best to bring in various species of the folks. these young elks are in for a long journey from a small pen to freedom. easy easy that you can take them away to showcase there you go and usually. you. look forward that's it if pick up that well tough you know you see if they've been around for a month one of the else was very sick and we had to work hard to nor seem back to health. now that there are fewer mosquitoes h