the work that needs to be done. i do not know how long that is going to take. honestly, i wish i could give you a 30, 60, 90-day answer. i do not know, but i do know that we have work to be done, and so far, all the work that we have done has been for naught. commissioner murphy: i think the commissioners are really trying to work with you here. 30 days, 60 days. commissioner lee: anybody else want to weigh in? >> i would move 60 days, give him time to interview some folks come and get it done. >> and get references. you have to get references. >> and now you know they need permits. that is the permit in place? >> there was a permit obtained. let me find a deep fear. in may. may 21, 2010. he was going to the corrections on the back water valve, from what i was told. but like i said, no inspections have happened. i do not know if you are still using him or not. them of the permit that the gentleman is just speaking about was actually a permit to take the place of a permit that was presented to us for 149 buena vista avenu

that's basically what you have to do. you have to maintain the north side of your house. >> so, what do you use to remove mold and mildew? people say bleach kills mildew. also, when you paint and when this gets repainted, there's a very simple additive you can get at the paint store, the mildew side that prevents the development of mildew and wherever you paint. do you use mildew sides in paints? >> we mix it in with primer. >> especially good for bathrooms? ok, good. we're going to look a little more at inside bathrooms. scrubbing it off, definitely. here's a hinge, an exterior hinge. it looks like it is rusting in certain areas of the hinge which are not designed for weather exposure. exterior metal is a serious, serious problem. here's a hinge which is solid stainless steel. so stainless steel or brass or bronze or, you know, other similar materials which are designed to be exposed to weather are what you have to use for exterior. if you use anything that has galvanized or other it will -- unless -- thank you, unless it

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you might really, really, want to do that. but i know some boys who would love the music program, but they are not going to come to fillmore all the way and risk their lives for something they really really, want to do. it's the areas. put it in suburbs where everybody can go to it. >> or, i notice they are building a police station. you will build a police station but not a community center. >> we are getting concrete examples here. >> did you want to respond anything before i go to questions? >> this is an issue where all hands need to be on deck. we are in a crisis. we all have to be held accountable at every level to have all hands on deck. we have the obliteration of our young people. homicide is the leading cause of death. for the period we have been in iraq. there are have been 4 thousand casualties. this is a program in our own back yard. we need the city coordination to insure we're having the coordination. >> can't we have a meeting, call it whatever you want, maybe your organization. you can coordinate. is that somet

they got to do a lot of things american kids wanted to do. we ended up -- my younger sister come in under brother -- we were the last three in the family. we cleaned up the house. i did all the gardening in the house. we did all those things. those things that we had to do. we had to keep up. we worked hard. i worked in restaurants in my early days. i got a call to go to this great college that was recruiting people from the west coast. my history teacher, i will never forget him. he said that i was not made for the university. university of washington was where everybody went unless they got lucky and went to harvard or yale. about put on the waiting list for some of those. i did try. -- i got put on the waiting list for some of those. i did try. this little university was willing to give me a four-year scholarship. i took a risk. it was one of the best decisions i made. it was one of the best experiences i had come up being in one of these small liberal arts colleges. it was completely on the opposite side of the world. >> you were one of t

so the obvious question is would you like to do that? t timing, but first, i want to commend you on being able to really make chaz feel like a man and already put the squeeze on him to hurry up and get this done. but you know, my husband told me something that's very important with marriage, and that is you can be right or you can be happy. and chaz, jenny said a church and i am so deeply honored and flattered that you would suggest me, but i think they need to work this out a little bit further rather than the pressures. i'm just deeply honored. chaz has been one of the greatest blessings in my life. i'm honored that he would make that request of me. >> without wishing to push this too far, congresswoman, but jennifer has expressed her wish, should we get to the stage within the year-long window that chaz has now said he will be held to and we do get to that church and you are asked formally to be the officiator, would you do it? >> wow, i honestly would be deeply honored. but i really think we have to have family discussions. i don't se

something to do not want to do. we believe this will help us creek "middle schools without taking away the choice that parents have been strong said they want. even tonight, we are calling for predictability. vice president yee: my take is this. if people are not going to choose this, we will scrap this. that is how i feel. right now, five years, you are saying, giving people the chance to vote with their feet, or something. if it does not work -- we may not need to wait five years. we may find in one or two years that we want to just do this. i am in favor to allow for experimentation. we cannot keep doing the same things. it just does not work. i am willing to give some support to see what happens. chairperson wynns: commissioner mendoza has not decided if she wants to fight this this evening. i have some things i would like to say. one, i want to say that the issue of predictability, the call for more predictability, is one of the things that interest me to support both the attendance area preference we have in e

i think we still have work to do. i don't want to lose the momentum we have and that you have done for us in gathering information. we are endeavoring data and making sure our schools are becoming quality schools. but i think there is a desire, to mature there is more there before we make solid decisions. people are jumping ship to go to schools where they know the middle school is going to be a middle school they want to go to. what are those unintended consequences of our schools where the population has been full all these years and now parents are bailing so they are in the right elementary school to get into the right middle school? we have to be mindful about what happens on that and to. now you know why i have been sitting quietly. there is just so much. and i don't know what to do with this, quite frankly, because it really is a big decision that we are going to make. it is going to be long term. it is not that we can't change our minds later, but i think we want to come up with a plan we can all live with, bas

there are two ways to do that and one way is to cut. can cut a budget and take things away for people and his plan does that effectively. the beneficiaries lose a lot. there is an alternative to that and that is to make care better and that is the strategy that i am more committed to. there is nothing proposed by paul ryan that improves care. that is the way to make it sustainable. >> one of the things they representative ryan's plan does did they id shows that it seniors are empowered in choosing their own health insurance that they will help to drive better care. they will help drive lower cost. isn't that the way the market works in this country? >> the great way of being involved with the medicare program is to work for seniors for them. we are unified voice on behalf of the beneficiaries. vouchers would erode steadily over time. i think medicare is paying 68% of care for the beneficiaries. over time, that balladur, entirely in adequate, it will get down to 35% of the cost. there will be those who will not be able to afford insuranc

where to go to do that, where to go to get assistance. we are also a resourced. when we do see people in our office, many of them are a year or two out from even opening their business, so we will ask them what their credits for is, have they done their business plans, do they know what they're capital needs are going to be, how much money they have, how much money they are going to need to open their business. based upon those questions, we will direct them to the sba for workshops, courses. there is other entities that also provide workshop courses score as well in terms of helping to write business plans. also helping to educate the distinction between the micro lender, our bank, and our larger financial institutions and how those lending -- what is the difference in how this entities will lend, in addition to the sba loans that are available. also in response to the economic crisis, which hit a couple of months after we open our doors, the mayor reinstated the revolving loan fund, and we partnered with tmc working solutions, which is a micro lender, to provide

you do not have to do the whole thing. just do a day's worth of work and you can do an awful lot. thank you for coming and >> welcome to "culture wire." i'm your host meg. for years, free jazz concerts have been providing entertainment in downtown san francisco. people pay local musicians to perform for lunchtime crowds. the goal is not just entertainth. people in plazas are trying to create neighborhoods. what began as a forum for performers who were paid by passing the hat has become a program that provides wide exposure and more than 500 paid gigs annually for local musicians. from july through september, people in plazas produces almost 300 free performances in the lunchtime hour. the mission of people in plazas generates social congregation. and by having these events, we encourage people to make these plazas everybody's neighborhood. >> recently, the san francisco arts commission was awarded a $ 250,000 grant for the national endowment for the arts. to establish an arts district in the central market corridor between fifth and 10th street. throughout the yearing the arts comm

not want to pay for it out of my existing taxes. we do not necessarily get a clearer assessment of which category their response falls into. i think that being said, is our responsibility to communicate to the voters cases in which we absolutely have no -- we have a very significant legal or financial reason we need to complete these projects and in cases where it does fall to the city, i think we have to clearly communicate about what that means to have been. if we are unable to secure gao bond support, we need to look at that. supervisor farrell: do we ever articulate as a policy matter, as a policy matter the city and county has decided this is something we need to do and this is not approved, our borrowing expenses will go up five x, because we're going to have to use c.o.p.'s, and that is what you are also voting on? >> yes. ben is reminding me he was part of the conversation on san bruno, and i think that is something we can probably do better. it is also a complicated message when you're talking about communication about a bond mea

to consider it. the regular procedure what do you mean by. let's turn to you next. ok ok what should the theater which in the state now was was not. looking at you this september except early cleary and then you go on tour you said here is going to communion listen to your car channel was very well known would you put him on us we're really casting on that to thirteen million young people online which is much more going to do it for seven years for most than it was but then you are our program as a thank you a patriotic reasons for the one percent when you're milestone we put forward the initiative to which it has all been eyes of competition of photographers called in my country from so any citizen who would be able to take part in this for you to to strengthen interest in our country its traditions and culture and its heritage. with and you would be to you mr president if you are saying no that isn't our fan of photography. how would you feel about supporting this because of your part in this competition and when you when you would such to maybe be heading the org

to medicare, do to the direction that this country would go. and they're rejecting it. they're saying they don't like it. so, if republican candidates cling, as my republican colleagues in the house have, to the ryan plan to end medicare, to focusing on tax cuts for the wealthiest, and insisting on that and balancing all the pain that they're imposing on middle class and working families, then i think that democratic candidates for congress and president obama and other democrats up and down the ballot are going to find some success. what we need to do is sit down together and work on our nation's problems. >> reporter: do you think the tea party is losing some of its appeal? >> i think tea party activists and republican candidates elected to congress by the tea party are finding that governing is hard. and that, you know, it's easy to, you know, to throw bombs and to be incendiary; not so easy to sit down and actually govern. what we need to try to do is what the president called for-- sit down around a table and deal with our long-term issues

i want business to do that. i want them to feel that they can talk to supervisors and supervisors can talk to the mayor, and when we made these promises, we keep them. i kind of made a promise that i would not run. what i want to do this year is reestablished that trust. i came to san francisco originally to live and be part of, and that is people good for their word, government good for their word. we have a government that is helping all of us, not hindering, not being overly bureaucratic. so that, to me, is more of a personal answer to that question. it would take an awful lot for me to change that because i did make that promise, and i think part of my success is not being a politician. i think what the city has made it was really to start fulfilling the promises we have made for many years and not make new ones. so that is what i want to be able to do. [applause] >> i think that is about as close to a flat no as we are going to get. >> he is very diplomatic. on top of that, one of the employees asked me, i'm

shops on polk affected, but that would be an interesting study to do. president to brian: -- president o'brien: anyone else? we're talking about leveling the playing field, which kind of suggests their competition. is this an outright ban altogether on this particular company coming in in effect, is it just an outright ban altogether? >> i think this area is really struggling right now, especially this district, and there are plenty of other spots in other areas, may be other areas that might want a petco or another chain store, but for this area, it will protect the businesses and level the playing of for them and keep up a chain store. >> so it would be essentially an outright ban altogether. supervisor mar: there are restrictions to maintain the unique character, which i think is in the public interest of the board of supervisors to pass legislation. president o'brien: you're touching on my second question. did i hear that your amendments might want to tweak the legislation a little bit so the other -- did i understand that may be other businesses may

things, they might come around to doing things another way. t there are too many people interested in doing it the way that we did -- a way that we do it to get there. people in my business are not necessarily familiar enough with the criminal justice system to understand what it is the way it is. most of us do not come from this business, we come from the business of making news. i think that is a very difficult question.

i do not technically require one to have an account to do a loan with. what i look for, i generally start at 100,000 and up. when it is a requirement of 50,000 or less, i tend to call of the micro guys to help me out. that is right in their box. for us, the capacity for us to do the smaller side is not there as much as it is for them. on getting a loan through my side of the bank, i do not require an account to do that. we would like to have it, but i do not require it. >> last question for the opportunity fund and a critic representative. are you a cdfi? is san francisco and s.p.a. in support of cdfi's being established in san francisco? >> yes, we are. we were founded in 1999 with a small business loan. that is how we started our tenderloin office. >> opportunity fund is a certified cdfi, so we are providing a benefit to low and moderate-income communities. he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a pro

doing better. we're not back to where we were, but we're doing better. i think what's happening here in this country is petloleum prices, you're very dependent on it, and four-plus dollars is something a lot of americans find very difficult to work into their budget and they don't have a lot of choice. a lot of commodity prices, food, have gone up dramatically. and the statistics don't show quite the impact on individual families because they cover a lot of different costs. having said all of that, there is some bright spots. i think if you wanted to go buy a house and if you can afford it and if you're secure in your job, mortgage rates are low, housing prices continue to fall, you can get great bargains and you shouldn't wait till the end. the most important thing, however, are jobs. and we have a great mismatch in this country between the skill sets of those who are unemployed and the demand in industry and in government for people with a very different set of abilities. and it's a function of years and years, decades, of poor schools and not training

we need to do what we can on the capital side. i would also point to work we were able to accomplish last year in bringing efficiencies to the way we negotiate bus driver contracts through the passage of proposition g. the great deal of savings will result from that. those dollars will go to improve operations. >> what about parking and traffic? is it safe for pedestrians? >> i do not think there is a block in the district that i have not heard from one resident who has asked for a speed bump or stop sign. it is all in the eye of the beholder, particularly if you live there it is just not safe. that says a lot about what we need to do in terms of enforcement. we have great loss on the book. but if they're not getting in forced, -- we have great laws on the book, but if they're not getting in forced. we need to improve that area. >> let's talk about crime. how do you think the police department is doing? how do you think the city is addressing the issue of crime? >> the way we have been handling it is a marked improvement from where

we have to persuade them to do so. we can at least strongly encourage people cannot lay down on the streets. we have the city and live ordnance. they are already starting to get the warnings. they are bringing people to pay attention to this. we are offering services to people. we're doing in the san francisco way, eventually we have to get way, eventually we have to get people into situations like

to act is now. i think the president shares that view. all of my members do. e going to get this done. >> lehrer: senator, you famously said in october 2010, i believe it was, that-- in fact i even have the quote here-- that you asked what you saw as your job as a republican leader of the senate. "the single most"-- i know you heard this many times. "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for president obama too be a one-term president." my question is how is that working out? >> well, look, that's-- that's the main goal for 2012. that's what i was asked. and we'll-- we'll-- both sides will be trying to win the election in '12. the challenge at the moment is what are we going to do between now and' 12. we have had an election every two years since 1778, right on schedule, yet at various times, even though there was an election come category up, we did what was necessary to save the country. that's what we're about right now. he's the president. he got a four-year term. we're going to work with him to get this big job done this year. >> lehrer: do

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, the board of education was contemplating shutting down or consolidating six of the eight schools in the area. if it was not for the people in this room and others, who came to the defense of the schools, they would have been shut

the fourth has to do with environmental impact reports. i think there is an important corollary to the questions. there is a distinction between restoring a historic resource and whether that should be retained. the first is a technical question and the second is a policy question. finally, there is a question of the relative weight of historic preservation compared to other policies, and the balance restrike with those policies. today, we are going to give you an overview of how we conduct our work in the department, the role of the historic preservation commission, and the purpose of the service. the california environmental quality act -- it is important to distinguish between what happens over the secret and what happens in other aspects of our preservation. there are other parts of the city represented by the departments here today. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am tim fry, with planning department staff. what i would like to present to you today is essentially where preservation is legislated at the local level, and where preserva

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it is going to make a difference. if everything we do is equated with one -- won or loss, we would never get anywhere. was it worth it? he is gone. i think it was worth it. was it worth it to those that many human beings? tough. that is a terrible, hideous thing, but it is over and it will change things. and i think that is worth it . tavis: how long do think it will be before al qaeda responds? to remind those around the globe that they are not dead. >> we do not know. but we had better be on red alert. we will see what is left of this ragtag outfit. and then you have to remember the taliban, al qaeda -- they hate us. this is are really sincere step of, you mess around with america and it may take us 10 years, but we will dig in to your hole or mansion, and we will get you prepa. tavis: will get to the deficit now. senator simpson, what do you make of the debate so far? in your words, describe how you view the debate . >> i have a bias and that is that my wonderful cochair and i, erskine bowles, 18 great americans, six appointed by the

to do it. i do not want to be back here three months from now talking about the same thing. >> if i can have three months. i do not know what is available. if i could have a bottle, i do not understand. i'm willing to pay the assessment of costs and then go back into the pool where i have the regular permit process where i have one year to complete it. i'm not going to take one year. i want this off my plate, too. i do not see why we keep putting limits on my worked beyond the normal process. i could see it up to this point, because i was appealing the assessment of cost. if you find that i should pay those costs, i'm expecting or hoping that i will pay those costs and i will have a typical permit with one year to get the work done. i do not agree with mr. hinton. it is not -- if the permit expires, the permit expires. it is not that he is looking over my back to prod me on. i do not understand the way he represented his role. also, in the order of abatement, it said the director here buy order

so, if you would like us to do another comparison on general fund revenues, i can do that as well. supervisor farrell: i would like to suggest we do that as well. we can come back and work with my office as well. we can definitely -- i think it would be appropriate to look at that. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. supervisor farrell: a slide it talking about principal and interest is different than what we mentioned before. i was wondering if we could clarify -- >> i do have a statement of principle and interest, and in our portfolio, we'd manage ab ductio in may -- 87.1 -- $87.1 million in interest. i have not looked to see why it is $900 million. i just heard katie speak to that. i am showing a marginal number. supervisor farrell: ok. maybe we can clarify that. thank you to the budget and legislative analyst for doing that report. i am looking forward to continuing to review that, the different ratios. i think next -- in terms of c.o.p.'s overall, wanted to get a sense of future c.o.p.'s in the capital plan, but also understand the issue about the lease revenue bonds. mayb

to deal with? how much women do you have to be able to do? >> -- how much swimming the you have to be able to do? >> they have to be good in the water. that have to be able to function on land. there is a lot of training to keep those skills current. a team that is not deployed will go through its work up and do harbor penetrations, airborne training, lots of land warfare training. they have to be prepared for all contingencies. typically they will go to afghanistan and to land warfare operations in the mountains. >> do they have to stay underwater for a certain length of time? >> i remember from my sealed training we had to swim down 50 feet and tie 3 not. some of them will have to swim 50 meters underwater. there are certain things they have to do. they have to swim in an open water within a certain period of time. there are water requirements and there is drown proofing, which is very difficult. they tie your hands behind your back and your feet together and you have to stay afloat. >> has anybody ever drowned in training? >> there have been some drowning issues, but more have to do with hypoth

they will continue to do so. we just have to reapply those founding principles to the problems of our time. that's what we try to do with this budget and we're going to be fine. that's what makes me sleep soundly at night because i really think americans want america. i don't think they want another country. so it's those mentors and those writers inspired me. i'm a big churchill fan as well. we're in a churchillian moment. it's not a foreign threat. it's an internal threat, it's debt and economic i think we will tu around. i really do. i think this country is not done with exceptionalism. so thanks. >> great, appreciate it. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> in a few moments, this morning's headlines and your calls live on "washington journal." la botanical like eastern we hear from ken salazar and former deepwater horizon incident commander that allen about legislation regarding drilling for offshore oil and gas. in ab

we do have to meet our budget needs. we're doing our best to maintain the level of services. >> thank you. next? >> good evening. i am the director of one of the services for direct -- domestic violence survivors. in san francisco, we have three shelters funded and many programs involved with domestic violence and violence against women. those budgets are funded through the department on the status of women. we have just gone through a proposal for the next three-year funding. what we do, domestic violence services in this city, have done several things. working with survivors, we spend a lot less than what city services would have to pay to help survivors the second thing we do that is really important for you to realize is that in terms of the homicides that have occurred, we have reduced those down to numbers that are less than double digits. when we think about the effect of what we have done it and help with in the community, we have to consider those two things. the other thing you have to realize is the budget for

it is always there to do that. that facilitates the growth of government. r it is growth of government to fight wars we shouldn't be in or providing a cradle to grave entitlement system. we cannot solve our problems without looking at the monetary issue. [applause] the great thing about what has happened in the last four years is all of a sudden, the federal reserve and monetary policy has become an issue out on the table. that is a great victory, and i thank so many of you who have helped. [cheers and applause] but we did not get our fed bill passed. it was passed in the house, but it wasn't passed in the senate. but a lot has happened. we got a partial audit, and some core cases have been beneficial. we are getting more information. it is astounding. as much as i have anticipated it would be very bad, but more thanned a -- a third of it went to overseas banks, not to the americans who are losing their mortgages. one bank that was bailed out, gaddafi was one-third owner in the bank, and we bailed them out. this is the reason that we should direct our intere

so, the first thing i had to do was to think about how do i approach this. now, andrew johnson is not known by lots of people, not lots is known about him. but one thing people are do know is that almost every survey of rankings of american presidents, he is at the bottom. keys near the bottom. he's in the bottom five. since 1997 i have participated in these surveys, and sometimes i look at the results. sometimes i don't but he is usually in the bottom five. buchanan is usually the worst, but he's in the bottom five. this year, this past year when i didn't participate in the survey for the first time, i typically fill them out, i didn't this time because i was too busy, he made it to the last. [laughter] he was considered the worst president. just in time for the book. and in some surveys he's considered one of the worst, and this year the worst president. once you get down to that point is really splitting hairs to think about who -- what's the real story with that. but that's a difficult issue because how do you sit down and write about that somebody who w

the first thing we have to do is look within. it's easy to play the blame game and see the fault in others. the cbo's aren't doing they are supposed to. no it's the police's fault. it's city haul's fault. but in the end. that gets us nowhere. we can never truly work together unless we stop assigning blame. the second thing we must do. we must be open to the possibility there's a better way to do things. too often as i sat through discussions ask encountered reluctance to change. i would ask you if we have things figured out. are children safe in schools? would we be here in our streets were safe? as i already said, i am not here to point fingers at anybody. if you are not part of the solution. then you are part of the problem. the other thing we have to be willing to do is check our egoes at the door and listen to each other. there are a lot of folks who love to hear themselves talk. but people who need to listen to what others say. working together means listening to each other and not taking credit. we have to have faith in each

it has to do with all the things we're doing tonight, to make sure we do them better and to make sure we have in our minds and in our plans of how people leave the city and why. housing is extremely difficult right now. i understand what people went through when forced with foreclosures. it has made life harder. it has caused people to move to oakland and other areas. we understand what that has been about. there is a combination of these things. we need to have money available for those who needed, making sure city is working in a coordinated fashion with all our programs. we have to do better. i know it begins with us making sure we are sensitive to this. i know, because i work with all my colleagues, that they have read this report. we will be working with all of you about implementing the various aspects of this. if it takes a hearing supervisor, we can report on the process we are making. we have a part of that responsibility in the way we handle our day-to-day business here in everything we do. it begins with all of you making sure you have a dialogue with us about preventing ou

that live paycheck to paycheck. when they do not get that next paycheck, they could be homeless the next week on that level, we need to continue to support economic development, support job creation, small businesses, the act would create 60% to 70% of the jobs in san francisco. we need to push legislation white -- like local hire, which is supervisor avalos's legislation. we demand that companies hire folks from our city. that is one end. we have to do what we can use to subsidize other essential services, whether it is transportation or public health, so people can afford to live in the city. then you have another category of homelessness, which is chronic homelessness. it is not just living paycheck to paycheck, but other issues like mental health or drug addiction. that is a much harder population to address. i think -- the district that i represent as many of the community organizations. it continues to be a pressing problem. >> where do you think the attics and mentally ill will go? supervisor kim: first of all, a ton of f

to settle the differences. and in doingo, i've given instructions to all 60 city departments, making sure that their budgets reflect the values of the city, and to also make sure they reflect some of the priorities that i've given them. what i've said to the departments, that i want a budget that reflects a safe city, safe in that all of the residents here can feel that they live and they work in a very, very good city that's safe for them and their families, that's the public safety sense, but also safe in the sense that we have a core level of services that we provide that are helpful to people in need. and that core level of the social network of services that we can provide will also produce a very safe community in san francisco. i also want a budget that reflects that our city is solvent, that we have programs that we can pay for, and that will mean -- i've said this in every town hall meeting -- i'm working so hard with all of our departments and the labor unions to make sure that we have a pension partnership for pu

i wanted to share one positive story. we do a lot with very little money, but we needed $200,000 to keep going, so we decided to do a two-day pledge drive. we did not offer any gifts. we barely cut into programming. we were just very honest with listeners and said we needed to replenish the station. we raise over $200,000 in two days. we broke records. we were all blown away. we broke records on my show, which is 100% funded by listeners. we rates $4,000 on my show. usually, the average is $2,000. it just proves that people really want community, independent radio, and the and the media. it is sort of a positive note and a lot of what we're seeing. >> i just wanted to add to that. that is a unique funding model that happens in public radio we have listeners supported content. that is something we were talking about funding earlier, talking about rich people donating, where if you had this micro finance model -- that is part of why president obama was elected as well. his campaign finance open it up to everyone to be able to don

they refuse to do it. tands now, we have no plan to have any real reduction of the deficit that we're face tpr-g this administration -- that we're facing from this administration or the democratic senate, let alone a framework to reduce it by $4 trillion. but they pretend it's so, and that's offensive, and the american people are not happy about it, and they know that this senate and this congress has a responsibility under the law and under any morality and decency to produce a budget that says what we're going to do with their money the next year and how much deficit we're going to incur, how much debt we're going to increase. and they have a right to see that. and all we've seen is a push back and talk of that kind. so we're heading to it. we're heading to a budget situation in the committee next week, i hope that we will. and i think senator conrad, our democratic chairman, will sph-t a budget -- will submit a budget better than the president's budget. surely it will be. i can't imagine it won't be subs

i want to make sure we do focus on that. i thank you for your time and look forward to answering any of your questions. >> thank you, mr. rinaldi. dr. belenky thank you for being here and which look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, distinguishes members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on fleet fatigue and performance in air-traffic controllers. i'm gregory belenky. i'm a physician by training and research profession and director of the sleep and performance research center at washington state university. i joined wsu in 2004. prior to that i served for 29 years on active duty in u.s. army to develop systems managing sleep and sustain performance in military operations. at wsu we're continuing this work studying sleep and performance in operational environments, operational environments which if the human fails, the system fails. chairman cantwell it is important for the subcommittee with the critical role in safety which air-traffic controllers inadvertently fallen asleep or deliberately

my house is 98 years old and i had to do maintenance. i had to change the sewer. at a small cost for keeping a house, keeping your home. in parkmerced, they should do the same. 50 years old is not all for a house. someone lives there. that's their home. that is not being considered. in some sense, the renters are treated like second-class citizens. they are being treated like sharecroppers. [applause] a landlord is the big boss. he is the man. the renters are just renters. they're not people. it does not matter. we all know what the real reason for this is. money. big money. developers are going to make a big profit. the city thinks they're going to make a profit. there is infrastructure that will cost. these things will not offset the cost. more importantly, there is a human cost. these are people that live there. they are not just numbers. please send it back. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i live in the sunset. since the previous two speakers mentioned the housing stock, i happen to have the housing characteristics start from the hous

i will continue to do that. when this is over, i will get to live with all the decisions i have made. a lot of you living out here. i want you to enjoy that, because it is a once-in-a- lifetime to have the mayor here. will be great beneficiaries of it. and then local hires -- one of my big principles of support as well. i need san franciscans hired. i need them to have jobs. you want your kids to have good jobs. they can do those jobs. that is why mark and i tteamed up. we just signed midmarket legislation to keep twitter in town, and they are going to hire san franciscans. 65% of their work is done by sentences and. did you know that? i want them to continue doing that so you can have that environment to choose from, and many more companies will come forward and be here and growth here as mark and i and others work together on making this town much more business friendly. thank you very much. [applause] first tee thank you -- supervisor farrell: thank you, mayor lee. before i turn it over to greg, let me just sa

ex supervisors are looking for something to do. a couple of people in the race who don't have term limits. there's the city attorney, dennis herrera, and phil tinge, they don't have to worry about that. the state senator has to get out of the race. it's interesting to listen to what they had to say yesterday. it was a fairly narrow focus of what the debate was about. it was about service and community engagement, held at usc at the leo mccarthy center for service i think it's called. so there wasn't a lot of fireworks built into that. because is a politician going to say no, i don't want volunteers, no, i don't want people to be engaged in the community? that wasn't going to come out. but they touched on the budget. a couple of the candidates touched on pension reform, which really is going to be the hot-button issue in san francisco, because they're going -- there's very likely going to be a measure on the november ballot. they didn't get into the big thorniest issues in san francisco, the condition of the streets, homelessness, mu

america has a job to do in pakistan too. convince more pakistanis that you are more of our ally and, therefore, they will be less -- >> right now america and you need to convince the american taxpayer that billions of dollars still need to go to pakistan as they've been. >> absolutely and we are working on it. both sides are engaged. the fact remains that in future we want to make sure that we continue with joint operations. as far as high-value targets are concerned, the americans are sharing with us what they think is the way forward. we are giving our opinions. but, look, christiane, complain and harping about pakistan has been around for as long as the pakistani and u.s. alliance have been around. there have been demonstrations in pakistan for a long time. there have been objections in congress for a long time but we are allies and partners who need each other and so let's be fair, people like me sitting quietly with people like tom donilon are the ones who are going to find a way forward, not the people screaming on tele

to do something you really love doing all these years?nd a rose said -- and thoreau said people live lives of quiet desperation because they do not enjoy what they are doing, and i tell kids to be patient and not and hang on until you find something you really love to do and find somebody to love. i think that is the most important thing in the world. tavis: you said to be patient until you can find something you want to do. this does not seem to happen too much these days in this business. it is hard to imagine, but "the dick van dyke show" got canceled after its first season. how did it get canceled after the first season? how did it get back on the air? and how did it become so iconic? >> we did not get any ratings. we were heartbroken because we knew we had something good. our executive producer went to procter and gamble and said, madam, and talked us into getting back on. then we got a good airs thought, and people discovered us. -- a good air spot, and people discovered us. it was like a party. tavis: maybe you were right, and i wa