tom ammiano, george gascon. former supervisor bevan dufty is here with us. department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown. thank you for being here today. [applause] now on with the program. when phil told me he invited the speaker of the california state assembly to swear him in, i looked at him and said, are you kidding me? the governor is introducing his budget that we, sessions that week, there is no way he is driving down to san francisco for you on wednesday night. but it sure enough, here i am. i am not sure that bill asked me to introduce him, more so as payback for being the naysayer. we are so happy to have you here.

just heard from state assemblyman tom ammiano.ernor get the tax extensions on the ballot in time? it's going down to the wire. now, i figure they have until about until tuesday to secure the support from the republicans, then he'd have to move to get two state senators and two assembly members from the republicans to stand up and actually say we will put these tax extension tons ballot. get the democrats to join in, then they'll let the voters decide. here is the real trick: it's a question of timing. as we've talked about, putting these extensions on has to be done within this week. the reason is pretty simple. because they've got to get on the ballot in june, because those tax extensions run out in july. and if you don't get them on the ballot by june, then what you're actually doing is asking people for a new tax. >>> then tom ammiano was here talking about the fact there's no statute saying it has to be done this week. >> there is not a statute but the secretary of state's office tells us that certain things have to be accompl

[applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the celebration happening. we would liked everyone to join us for the reception. we want to thank owner of moonstar. we want to thank you for your contribution. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you.

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[applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause]

we have our certificates hear it from assemblyman tom ammiano. for all of our honorees, we also have a back from the friends of the commission on the status of women, so you can all continue the heavy lifting that you do. i would also like to invite my fellow commissioners of here with me. if you want to come back up again. a former president of the commission. and right next to me assisting me is a member of the friends of the commission, and i cannot reiterate enough that we cannot do all the work without the friends, so any, thank you. -- annie, thank you. i'm going to just read off this order. this is the order that i have the certificates. supervisor mar's nominee. thank you for all of your work. [applause] and we have a crystal brown, a supervisor farrell's honoree. thank you. and geri crowley. at every meeting, i see her. i do not know whether -- where she finds the energy. i hope i can grow up to be just like you. [applause] and kimberly ellis, a fellow member of the california bar, and honoree barmalia cohe -- on area of -- an honoree of

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tom ammiano, george gascon. former supervisor bevan dufty is here with us. department of environment director emily nutter. interim police chief jeff godown. thank you for being here today. [applause] now on with the program. when phil told me he invited the speaker of the california state assembly to swear him in, i looked at him and said, are you kidding me? the governor is introducing his budget that we, sessions that week, there is no way he is driving down to san francisco for you on wednesday night. but it sure enough, here i am. i am not sure that bill asked me to introduce him, more so as payback for being the naysayer. we are so happy to have you here. i get to call you john, because this was before he became speaker. i first met john in 2008. bill said to me, my college friend is in town running for a board office in l.a.. we found ourselves having breakfast one morning. i thought, we are going to spend the entire breakfast talking about his candidacy, who was going to win. this is too much for a saturday morning. but sure enough, at one point, he

was it going to be a tom ammiano, david campos, an arin peskin, a former supervisor? >> but then mayor newsom said that he may delay his wearing him that as a lieutenant governors for a week. then the border supervisors, the modern new board with let the mayor. >> the question is when i do that. i have no charter obligations to do that. my term does not expire for another year-plus. so i have to resign first before a new mayor can take that oath of office. i have a role to play, even though the board of supervisors is the official who. >> mayor newsom, infuriatingly, frankly, kept his cards close to the best until the last moment. people did not know if he was going to stay in office to allow the new board to vote, people did not know if he was going to go to sacramento early. >> the key to this whole process that the board of supervisors cannot appoint an interim mayor until the office is actually vacant. he did not want to be the necessarily to the sport of supervisors, which were his political adversaries for so many years. >> anything can happen at the board of su

tom ammiano introduced a bill to require school districts to create tougher measures against bullying. it's called seth's law in memory of seth walsh, a 13-year- old gay student from tehachapi who killed himself in september. >>> california teachers are watching their mailboxes today for pink slips. hundreds of teachers in the bay area are being notified they might not have jobs next school year. today is the legal deadline for making those tentative notifications. the final deadlines to tell teachers their jobs are cut is may 15. by then, school districts will know whether there will be a special election to extend taxes that governor brown says are needed to avoid education cuts. >>> with gas prices at $4 a gallon, more people are taking mass transit especially those are long commutes. the "mercury news" reports that ridership on the ace train from stockton to san jose is up 11%. capitol corridor up 13 persons. bart, caltrans, vta and golden gate transit up 5% or more. >>> the governor's office is banking on a new solution to balance the state's $26 billion budget deficit. meet gove