city or sao paulo or mexico city these are cities where there are twice as large as wasco thanks to murder well some power is approaching thirty million if you think about regional not just the city but regional tokyo you're talking about twenty million people doing so so these are the most this population has doubled in my lifetime it used to be eight when i was a kid right at sixteen right now in the south so i think that there are undoubtedly there is some kind of limit but it's on noble exactly where it is and moscow's problem and is russia's problem is everything is so centralize here that if if you really want to get something done you really need to be here this is where the money is and maybe there's always like exactly three percent of russia's money isn't most that's right so there you go a kid growing in told there's money elsewhere well let's hear more about it right now from spotlights he learned that the me that. the u.s. is so strictly regulated good movement of its citizens was far from easy for non muscovites to come and live in the capital the collapse of the soviet

but i there's one point i want to make if you look at moscow ethnic tensions are rising but there are other cities in russia that have been somewhat more successful like you catch remember and there is now the beginning of some tension you have to work with there a lot of immigrants from central asia and from the very beginning the local authorities have tried to create opportunities for contacts and for creating space and the situations not quite yours is now as contentious as it is a monster i spent lots of years in london and london has always be that london was proud of being an example of like a multi-ethnic multicultural stuff but it seems to it seems to be cracking at the seams well i think i actually think london is is the example of the danger for the twenty first century you can imagine the city that was more tolerant and did more to reach out to minorities with all sorts of problems around the edge better than rights and yet even in london there were problems and we can also see what she we do what we what's the what's the. lesson that we have to look i think the lesson is the fire is n

internet do people really have to live in big cities you know people don't have to live in big cities but there's a very interesting phenomenon which we see in the united states and that's certain cities that were shrinking that are growing and are san francisco washington new york these are cities which actually have a kind of cultural life for them it turns out people want to be with other people so i don't i people can work anywhere but they still want to be with other people says blair will be director of canon institute for advanced gresham's spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in the. wealthy british style sign. is not on. the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on. the close up team has been to docu stuff birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. if. not all of our g goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tigers where the anci

a growing and growing while limited while there is a limit to to a city's city's population in modern times when you know some specialist like to say that there is a limit or maybe there's a kind of ecological limit but if you take a look at cities like mexico city or sao paulo or mexico city these are cities were . twice as large as moscow thank you martin well some power is approaching thirty million if you think about regional not just the city but regional tokyo you're talking about twenty million people doing so so these are the most this population has doubled in my lifetime it used to be eight when i was a kid right sixteen right now on the subway so to think that there are undoubtedly there is some kind of limit but it's knowable exactly where it is and moscow has problems and it's russia's problem is everything is so centralize here that if if you really want to get something done you really need to be here this is where the money is and maybe there's no it's not exactly three percent of russia's money isn't most that's right so it's not like our keep growing i'm told there's

kids will be able to see they have a way forward in this challenging city, but one that will be there city, when they have all the skills. thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> thank you. mr. mayor, we want to thank you on behalf of the 56,000 students in the san francisco unified school district, children of our community, for your tireless work on their behalf. we look forward to calling you a long-term partner. thank you. the mayor was gracious with his time. as you can imagine, he has a full schedule today and asked to be part of this ceremony today to show his appreciation for the work being done here. we want this to be a celebration and i would probably take until now until 3:00 to thank all of the dignitaries here, but i wanted to recognize some of our elected officials and dignitaries. of course, you met mayor lee, and we also have with us today two commissioners of our board of education. commissioner sandra fuhr. we also have commissioner moss. [applause] we are very happy to with us also -- the mere mention her -- our transbay executive director maria ayerdi-kaplan.

there is a built-in process. it is going to the city planning department and welcome to the full board of supervisors should there be an appeal. i would imagine, given the nature of this conversation, that there will be an appeal and this full body, all 11 members, will be able to deliberate on that process. in my mind, i do not see any real danger in an appropriation. i think that we meet our obligations legally. and i think that this body has an ability to act on it when the eir comes forward, and there are safeguards built into place for a department not to be able to spend it. in terms of whether or not we would have a different level of comfort if we're able to put an additional reserve on to it, of course additional reserves are always an additional oversight, but i do not see the ines is a very -- do not see the necessity for it. i would prefer to put a controller's office reserve on it. that is an impartial body, and they can actually be one where we can request that they would release the reserve pending completion of an enviro

the kind of investments that mayor nutter talked about would be valuable in every one of our cities. there's not a mayor in town this week who wouldn't underscore the importance of making those kinds of investments. right here in the city, for example, we, along with the rest of the mayors, talked about getting a transportation bill. investing in our street car system would have major benefits from economic development here in the city. because it would bring people into areas that they're not going into now. street cars are being supported all across the nation at this stage. at the federal level the congressional level, there's no conversation at all. >> we'll be back with the mayors in just a moment and talk about jobs and football and whether their teams have a chance next year. right after this. i just had it with cable. it just got more frustrating and frustrating. a lot of times, the picture would break up. for the amount of money that i am paying, my cable company should take care of me. [ male announcer ] stop paying for second best. move up to verizon fios tv, internet and phone fo

there's a lot of talk around how do we ensure the public, the investments we're making to the city agencies, whether it's around the school district or department of environment it's tied to getting our message out to the type of work we're doing in the community. there will be greater attention in that area. the last part is run workforce development. jobs are a huge party out of the mayor's office and a huge priority for us. it is increased emphasis on how we leverage and amplified jobs opportunities as relates to the puc. this slide talks about the accomplishments for the last year in legislative affairs. most of you have been briefed on these. some of them are concrete legislation we helped co- sponsor. summit is more local, whether it's from getting the power rates adopted. there has been quite a bit of work in the legislative affairs team to encourage cross- enterprise conversation about legislative strategy. there was missed opportunities to have a joint conversation about our collective approach around legislative affairs and we spent quite a bit of time on that. our priorities for

city to pay for these obligations. under the legislation, the assumption is that there will be remaining property tax revenues to the city for general purposes once the obligations are met and the property taxes have been distributed to all of the taxing industries. at this point and time, financing information is insufficient to determine what the full impact is of resolving the redevelopment agency. for the first six months, there is a recognized obligation payment schedule with $220 million in obligations. $90 million of the obligation could be viability for pension and medical benefits for present and retired redevelopment agency employees that the city would assume. there has not been a determination, about 100 would be transferred to the city. this is the collective bargaining rights that they may have in the transfer. in terms of the assignment of these employees and what their responsibilities to be, that has not been determined yet. because this legislation is necessary to implement, the recommendation is approval. because of the unknown fiscal impact and many of the aspects of the plan that have not been determ

-- occupancy rate down there? >> city college -- -- city college leases 89% of the building in a sublease to the human-resources as well as the renaissance, which is a non- profit. we have been in consistent conversation with the college about trying to get a sense of what their plans are as we think about occupancy. we have come to great closure with them over the last couple of weeks and is also have been in conversation with several nonprofits that to work force training and education activities. we are in a place right now we have not been so what we feel comfortable recommending -- we have been having continuous conversations with the commission and we have standing meetings with commissioner kennedy and commissioner brown and the executive director to keep them abreast of the plants that are happening. over the last year, with the focus on the building, we have taken over all of the custodial services per the budget conversation last year. we have taken that on from city college beginning in january and the feedback

city abandoned it in 1974. a former director will be talking about that. there are two other people that i want to introduce. the city attorney will talk about housing, and bill will talk about shadows. thank you. president chiu: we have a number of formidable representatives to make presentations, and we have someone who used to be with the planning department. >> supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to speak on a very important issue. president chiu: if you could pull the microphone under. >> does that do it? great. the third time i have appeared in relation to a proposed project since leaving as director of city planning, and even then, one of those times, i was an advocate for the octavia boulevard project. mcdonald and i designed it. that could be discounted because we were interested parties. i will only talk about three issues briefly. height. as has been mentioned, for over 40 years, you say 50, but 40 years plus, since the san francisco urban design plan, it has been city policy to decrease hiked toward the waterfront. so that people in san francisco could see and enjoy the meeting of land and

city. and then, also as part of that hearing we should make it clear there will be no such retaliation against anyone who speaks out. thank you. supervisor farrell: thank you. any other members of the public that wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues any comments? could i have a motion to move this forward to recommendation to the full board? motion by take that without objection. do we have any other items? >> no. supervisor farrell: thank you, this meeting is adjourned. >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content

about that a little bit, and it is like art to the degree that it asks you to think what the city values and there was a time when the city really valued entrepreneurial energy and with these type of stores and immigrant entrepreneurial energy and you come to the new world, and going to make a go of it, and you're going to do everything you can to make your business work. there is a lovely graphic artist cater and i think some of his work is in u.s. weekly and he has a series about a real estate photographer and this character wanders through the city that is kind of like new york and not and a really important part of the city and how it speaks through ingenuity and a will to make a go of it. now that is the intention and north beach is the example and the stakeholders pride and the people that regard it as their community and want it a certain way and have sern elegance and generosity and consistency that is at odds of this and the chicago model and the flower baskets all over and do they make the city welcoming or homogenized and the bay area and san francisco. it's a trade off and a balancing

them from layoff so other people will have to be laid off in their place somewhere else in the city. therere people in the city administrators and city attorney's office and so on and so forth. really no part of the city is likely to remain completely untouched by this and this is what has come of this budget deal that was struck last year where the legislature -- >> there are about 400 similar cities across. >> oh, yeah. >> belva: why this one so rapidly? >> oakland perhaps the money is more deeply embedded in oakland's infrastructure. but all cities, los angeles is also moving to shut down its redevelopment agency and grapple with the loss of funds down there. we had two state senators today introduce a bill that would delay the effective date from february 1st to april 15th to give skiz a little bit more time to grapple with this but nobody is saying the money will be kept. the money is going away under the deal struck with the legislature and the governor. the cities are reaping what they've sown. they went to court to try to stop this budget deal and the seizing of the redevelopment f

is gum a problem is this too messy to the city's standards. there is no code involving sidewalk cleanliness. should be in well maintained condition as the code states. with a number of sidewalk defects around the city, you know -- particularly on -- >> how about when somebody wants to use their own paving do they need approval. >> its allowed it's a sidewalk surface permit. it's required to comply with american standards of protective materials -- we have a minimum code for friction it will need to meet. [inaudible]. over to the 10 plus yearses we have compiled a list of surfaces that are splitted to us or the city used in various projects that do comply. that -- >> including epoxy coated paint. >> those are specifics in the downtown areas. you have the old sidewalks where you are walking on the ceiling of the basement below laurence mentioned earlier. a lot of times wear and tear, weather. alot of property owners will experience leaking, rainwater leaking to the basement causing health problems maintenance problems et cetera. once every 2 years wha

is there any way we can get cars from other city industries? there are a lot different than someone in the water department. we need cars for emergency situations, is that a possibility. is there anything we can do to remedy that? >> if you went back to the pie chart, the services and other agencies, they would not come free. we would be billed for those cars, and taking the other used car, you are buying that with what ever problem the used car had come and gone. commissioner kingsley: thank you for stepping in so quickly and picking up his ball, being here tonight to get our minds focused on the important issue of the the part that's budget. just two questions. we have 293 vehicles, how does that compare to what i believe the number of vehicles there should be in running order for the present staffing? either under that or any other type of measurement. >> i don't know that we have done a study, there are a lot of variables that have to be factored in. one of the issues would be the condition of the car. if it is going to go down and needs ser

it gets really cold, we allow guys to come in and state because it is really, really cold out there. >> city officials say that the shelters are a big help. >> ever since the city of baltimore started, the operating shelters, the 24-hour shelters, the numbers for hypothermia have plummeted. >> kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> ravens fans can send their favorite players a letter, and aid is not even going to cost u.s. stamp. starting today, giant will offer a purple mailboxes in its grocery stores all across the state. they will be taken to the team every wednesday that the team is in the playoffs and they will be posted on the walls of the owings mills cafeteria. ravens fans are pumped about a home playoff game, and that is helping a local businesses hope for a major it playoff pay off. local retailers are stocking everything from ravens clothing to keep six hoping people will buy them. the pregame excitement is driving much-needed sales in the typically slow month of january. >> a playoff game at home for the ravens. >> if today was any indication, it was a very busy day. people were excited

the city in general, there are challenges. when the conditions, the roadways, 1-way streets, and, like i said, the wood frame construction. also, the density of our city. president chiu: there appears to be a pattern in certain neighborhoods. as much as i love to see them working with them, if there are ways that we can focus on certain neighborhoods -- >> one of the things i've noticed over the years is that when we do have a fire, it can be a one alarm fire. because of the damage that is not necessarily related to the fire, especially water damage, we see a large displacement of people that have the tendency to be low income and do not have an easy way to find affordable housing within the neighborhood and it would like to stay in. those are challenges for us. those are challenges that we always somehow rise to meet, but it is a population that is adversely affected. >> i would echo that. i have worked from south central los angeles to new jersey to washington d.c. and georgia. that statement can be made in those vulnerable c

city car share. there might be ways where the parking lots, if they are secure, they don't have to be attended. they can have the car shares of its unsecured, that might be away. commissioner adams: two more questions. my other question, instead of hiring a security guard, what a>> we had a meeting in supervisor chiu's office, and there are a number of entertainment venue holders, and at that meeting they expressed more than interested - -of an i -- more of an interest in staffing. commissioner adams: my final question, ouare city lots subject to this? >> no. commissioner adams: the reason i am saying that, a l halfot -- bwe have a lot behind the castro theater. we have gates and everything, it keeps getting smashed down and i would like to know from your office, they are 24 hours for the most part. we try to limit the hours and we have had problems. the city is going to make private owners do this, why doesn't the city require it for their own lot? the marina is 24 hours. a lot of these people that go to

that camera is no longer there. city police say someone set it on fire at around 7:15 in the morning. >> that frightens me because an innocent passerby or a car exhaust could be affected and an explosion could occur. >> it is mischief. it is hard to say what their plotevations are other than someone who really doesn't like speed cameras. who knows. >> investigators won't commept on how the fire was set, but say it was intentional. police are on the lookout and are trying to determine what his or her intention may have been. >> i think setting fire to a piece of property there to keep us safe is as destructive as it sounds. >> she said sle -- she is not worried about an arsonnist -- arsonist in her neighborhood. >> what -- investigators trying to determine what caused a tractor trailor to tip over friday morning. a driver was trying to merge from the bell air ramp when the truck flipped on its side. the traffic was slow moving as scenes clean up everything. >> a rude awakening for brooklyn park residents. someone slashed