. >> animal care control, it is such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out. >> we have a huge number of volunteers who come in and they will walk our dogs, socialize our animals, play with cats, play with them, bring them to adoption events today. >> i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. >> we're in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you can donate money if you don't have time. if you do have time, you can come down to the shelter and volunteer to actually have one-on-one time with the animals. if you're like me and you don't have time to give to an animal, if you actually have one of your own, you can get your fix on the weekends, come in and pet them and love them and it's great. >> this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov

. >> animal care control, it is such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out.

again, and understaffed department is not fair to the tenants, certainly not fair to the staff, and creates undue stress and delays, which nobody wants to see. >> thank you. >> any further public comment on this item? seeing none. item 5. >> if i may, looking ahead, i know there will be a lot of public comment. i would beg to adjust the order. if there is no objection from the commissioners. i would like to move to item 5 right now -- item 6 right now. the other item where there will be public comment, again, item -- item 8. >> 6 and then 8? >> yes, thank you. >> we are taking a couple of items out of order. right back, we will address item 6. discussion on ada issues affecting small business owners regarding state bill 1608. >> i have included in your package the actual centreville 1608 regarding the ada issues. i have also provided on a separate sheet for the public another summary of senate bill 1608 by our inspector in house. we are continually working with the small business administration in the city. we have not yet had our first meeting yet, which will include planning, dpw, and oth

diminution in the level of attention and care in those trial courts that are overwhelmed with filings, understaffed with clerical staff and at the appellate level i don't think there is any crisis. i stand to be corrected by people with more experience around the country but we're such a tiny little portion of it functionally and financially. that i don't think it's an issue. >> p but linda's comment about the immigration courts where in fact, i mean, that's a very real issue whether these cases are getting any attention at all. when you look at the volume suggested that -- at the administrative level, you are multiply the number of minutes and divide it by a number of cases. it's like two and a half minutes a case. >> the immigration judges are deciding a dozen case as day and these arically kated basis. >> what ben b fees that are charged when you plead or you do a nolle pros, the judge will assign some kind of fee. other then they say $157 and you pay the money, right? and there are people who can't the money. i always wondered where the scale for the fee comes from? >> the card in your pocket r

again, and understaffed department is not fair to the tenants, certainly not fair to the staff, and creates undue stress and delays, which nobody wants to see. >> thank you. >> any further public comment on this item? seeing none. item 5. >> if i may, looking ahead, i know there will be a lot of public comment. i would beg to adjust the order. if there is no objection from the commissioners. i would like to move to item 5 right now -- item 6 right now. the other item where there will be public comment, again, item -- item 8. >> 6 and then 8? >> yes, thank you. >> we are taking a couple of items out of order. right back, we will address item 6.

the fact of the plan the parma is expected to come up with a funding mechanism. 2009 article, understaffed department struggles with tree upkeep. so my question is, why are we obligating these funds and not making certain decisions relative to the long-term care of these trees? if you cannot afford it, do not plant it. it is called the bottom of the iceberg. nobody wants to look beyond what the real issues are. $10,000 to plant trees is peanuts. but it is really the bottom of the iceberg that you are really in getting yourself to. so i request that you really take a good, ethical look at all the facts involved in this before you move forward and proceed fourth. commissioner avalos: thank you. >> as part of the annual call for projects for the prop k program, dpw is requesting street tree maintenance funds. we will be digging deeper into this issue in coming back to the committee next month with more information. commissioner avalos: thank you. any other member of the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a representative from the

in march of 2009, understaffed department struggle to upkeep trees. and it was also known five to eight years ago when representatives from public works declined money from the transportation authority to plant new trees because they did not have sufficient money to maintain trees. [bell rings] i request that you consider this, discuss it, and evaluated the impact of this decision and all other projects that involve street trees, because we're not properly maintaining the ease. on the one hand, you're taking the money and planting the trees. on the other hand, public works is relinquishing control of the trees. there seems to be a division of policy here. [bell rings] supervisor campos: thank you very much, sir. anybody else that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. we can take this same house, same call. thank you. item number 10. >> allocate -- item 10, support the draft plan bay area transportation investment strategy. this is an action item. supervisor campos: colleagues? let's open it up to public co

. >> animal care control, it is such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out. >> we have a huge number of volunteers who come in and they will walk our dogs, socialize our animals, play with cats, play with them, bring them to adoption events today. >> i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. >> we're in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you

that you can go ahead and appeal than -- i think there is democrat imunition in those that are understaffed with clerical support and don't have enough judges to begin with to begin their work. at the appeallate level, i don't think there is any crisis. i stand to be corrected by people with more experience around the country, but we're such a tiny little portion of it functionally and financially that i don't think it's an issue. but linda's comment about the immigration courts where, in fact -- i mean, that's a very real issue, whether these cases are getting any attention at all. when you look at the volume. i saw one study that suggested that given the volume at the administrative level, you know, you multiply the number of minutes in a judge's week and divide it by the number of cases, it was like 2 1/2 minutes a case. it w appalling. >> oh, yeah. a dozen cases a day and they're complicate complicated cases. >> what about fees that are charged? when you plead or you do a null pros and the judge will assign some kind of fee. you're happy they won't add any points but then they say $157.

understaffed, underfunded. that sounds like most nonprofits like ours. but anyway, jamestown has never changed, i guess. so -- but they got through that. then and smith finally leaves, but when he leaves in '69, there's another period that was known as the starving time. 1609, 1610, and the name tells you what happened. there were probably own 60 people left alive out of 215 that -- in 1610. so they pack up, they leave, and so this would not be the first permanent english settlement, had not at that very moment a new supply group come in, the real resident governor, lord delaware came in with over 100 troops, and they jump-started the operation. and from that point, the colony is going to make it. okay. that's thumbnail history, the earliest years. the reason i'm sticking to the earliest years, most of what we found archaeologically dates to that period, and that seminole event has been a really important thing for our understanding what we found beneath the ground. so if you'll follow me down here, i'll show you where we started and why. a lot of people

health administration which is in charge of ensuring a safe workplace for all americans is woefully understaffed in fact it would take one hundred thirty years for the administration to inspect every workplace in america to make sure another worker like nick doesn't die for no reason and to make matters worse republicans are proposing slashing the occupational safety and health administration budget by twenty percent last month on april twenty eighth the nation recognize workers memorial day though many around the country don't even realize such a day exists but here is tom's message that they need to protect american workers on the job. we honor several different memorial days throughout the year in the united states we have a memorial day for presidents for icons like martin luther king jr for our soldiers we even have a memorial day for someone like christopher columbus who slaughtered raped and pillaged his way to glory but on saturday the nation honors a memorial day that is too often overlooked most people don't even know it exists its workers memorial day a day every member ins for workin

the commission needs to keep an eye on the ball and continue to monitor this situation again and understaffed department is not fair to the tenants it's certainly not spare to the staff and creates undue stress and certainly creates delays to the industry in which nobody wants to see thank you thank you mr goodman. any further public comment on this item. and adam five thank you for coming up this morning and if i may madam secretary because i'm looking at the code here and i was going to a lot of public comments so i want to kind of adjust the order if we could move it it's no objection to the commissioner's move item six to item five for right now because and i believe there should be no issue there is there no not. if we could call item six so then after i think then we're back. and then actually if i may then i think the other item where there would be public company again would be. i took. which one i'm looking for is here. very the one with regard to. number six and then a yes please thank you. we are taking a couple of items out of order right at this time will address item six discuss

homes to an understaffed police force to a government on the brink of bankruptcy detroit has its fair share of problems it's become the poster child of everything that can go wrong in the city and it's attract the refers and journalists in the city to shoot so-called to ruin pornography but we decided not to go that route we traveled to the motor city and saw glimmers of hope we found people in the in detroit that are resilient people that are sick of waiting for the auto industry the police department or the local government to get its act together they're taking matters into their own hands to make it a better place it's a city often described as post apocalyptic and if you come to detroit it's easy to understand why around just about every corner abandoned homes charred by neglect even downtown skyscrapers stand vacant. it's what's left after an exodus of people out of the motor city the statistics just as grim as some of the landscape sixty seven percent of children here live in poverty and according to the f.b.i. detroit tops the list as one of the most dangerous cities in americ

. >> something the understaffed department needs considering a spent $25 million on overtime last year. and with 108 firefighters making over $200,000, that is something even the union said it is a crisis. >> firefighters make a fortune, what is the crisis? >> we are short 300 people. you go to work on saturday and told sunday morning you cannot go home, you have to work 24 more hours. >> out in san fransisco for this? the city's economy is booming and they're banking on $170 million to come in the city coffers as a result of spending. >> are happy days you're gone? >> i would not say that they're happy but what we're trying to do is prevent us from being in a position where we are going to be paying for it in other ways. >> those other ways might be bad stories about pun safe streets and unsafe and fires. he wants to keep this town with tourism and technology coming in and love that has to do with 61st. >> phil, i know in the past tensions have been a big issue, but on the surface this seems like it has nothing to do with the cost of pensions that they have pending? >> it does, as a m

measure is so unreasonable it will force many officers to leave the department which is already understaffed. >> they are leaving in droves. it is really sad to watch. >> he is president of the san jose police officer's union. he is concerned that measure b, a pension reform plan on the june 5th ballot has caused many officers to seek work with other police departments. >> we had an additional 60 or so officers that have voluntarily left. we have probably another 50, 60, maybe more that are in backgrounds with other departments. >> we don't have an option. we have continued to slash services throughout our city, and we see nothing but rising pension costs in the future. >> the san jose city councilman is one of the eight council members who helped place the measure on the ballot. officers have taken a 10% cut last year and they are paying an additional 20% for their health in retirement. >> as measure b passes, we will be looking at another 16% hit on top of an 8% hit. we are getting to a 40%, 50% pay hit to an officer's salary. >> this means we will have to go much further and make cuts far

. >> the situation of the system and what we're going into, understaffed, overcrowded. it's probably one of the worst times to be a corrections officer and everything that is taught to us at training camp is for a purpose to keep us alive, keep us safe. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay," cadet hardy passed his exam, but can he survive his first shift? >> he made a little threat and i called to get backup. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> well, inmates move contraband cell to cell, tier to tier, they use dental floss, tear up sheets. they tie an empty tube of toothpaste on it and flip it from one tier to the other. they move cigarettes, tobacco, magazines, anything they can get to read, they'll try to move it. normally tobacco, they won't move anything like tobacco or any pills or anything like that, only if the officer is not presents that's when they'll normally do that, or they know we're going to get it. this is not something we put up with, and we have to put up with a certain amount of it but if an officer is on the tier we try

there was a "daily news" op-ed that ran in april talking about your task force saying it was understaffed bullish that we can cure the systemic problems? >> there has been a lot of good propaganda over the last 20 years saying regulation just slows up the markets. it's unnecessary. the only period in world history since the modern markets started up in the early 1700s was between 1929 and 1987. maybe you didn't make money quite as flamboyantly during that period. maybe you couldn't do a butterfly straddle on the commodities market. >> i don't know what that is. >> it's a good thing. don't get involved in one. you could make money and there was a set of rules and regulations. we have to get back to a simpler set of rules everyone understands. as far as our working group goes, that is a different issue. that's prosecuting and investigating and bringing civil lawsuits that led to misconduct that did violate the regulations in effect. >> isn't that why there is little trust in the system. there has been no accountability for what happened. your working group which was hailed as a big step for

well, the short sales and foreclosures, you go to call these banks, they're understaffed, nobody returns that easy to get. >> what you're saying is, rob, you got to work like a dog to get this stuff done because you're dealing with all the red tape and bureaucracy. i've seen some of your homes. you had a glass elevator in one. these are big homes with all kinds of wallpaper, luxury stuff you're doing. what's the average cost of a home you're selling after you get done with it? >> well, i mean, i'm in the millions. i'm doing the mansions now. but, you know, i didn't start there. i worked my way up. i also do commercial real estate and smaller things like condos and everything. but, you know, they're not on tv. but, you know, diversify. that's the whole thing. and, you know, for tv, the mansions look better. but in palm beach, that is what the area is. >> right. >> there's a lot of money in palm beach. and i know my market there. i don't drift away too much from that area because i know it very well. and i think that's very important. you know, there's homes that are setting back further f

oneone understaffing cries comig of become general. the clean version is, i can dam well see they are coming. is looking at the confederates and the staff men says no, no look behind you and just as he is ready to ride into the thousand confederates, john newton who was appointed to be the first core that morning gallops over the ridge followed by his men fronting doubletime in formation. the first core flag is flying in the tear past meet and meade and shattered the confederate attack. it doesn't get closer than that. and then he has to deal with the other day but before that, one of the criticisms is when george meade held a council of war, only a coward would do that. napoleon had plenty but that is not the point. meade did not like councils of war. he was a very decisive guy. very rarely did he have trouble making up his mind. but he holds the council of war and calls all his generals together. he wants their views. there are three reasons why he does that. this is a major general. relatively junior, promoted over the other major g

can't do it but we would suggest that you get your own attorneys because we are so backlogged and understaffed during that time until you get to trial much faster. i found a young attorney named johnetta wiggins firm in birmingham who taught my case pro bono and i done my investigation on him and the people that we spoke with said he never lost the case of when i got their somebody said she never had to go to trial before. he was good at negotiating settlements and for an individual to come up in a case like this with anything in their pockets you need a decent settlement. but there was never one office. that's why i saw it through treaty still is working with me today and has never made a dime. but i was 1990 he shook my case, but we tried at least by 2002. but we didn't get there until 2003. my case was heard in my home county in alabama and january of 2003. after a week of testimony the jury came back with a verdict in my favor one was working at the plant that time she took a tremendous rest and played a terrific price for doing that. she's never got into my knowledge anything for it. the

can do it, but we would suggest that you get your own attorney, because we are so backlogged and understaffed during that time, until you get to try -- trial. you get to travel much faster. i found a young attorney in birmingham. he thought my case pro bono. i did my investigation on him. the people i spoke with said he never lost a case. and someone said when i got there, well, he never had to go to trial before. [laughter] but he was my kind of guy. he was good at negotiating settlements. for an individual to come out in a case like this with anything in their pockets, you need a decent settlement. there was never one offered. that is why i saw it through and i would not give up and neither would my attorney. he is still working with me today, and he's never made a dime. that was 1999. he took my case. he tried to get us to federal court by 2002. but we didn't get there until 2003. my case was heard in my home county in anniston, alabama, in january 2003. after a week of testimony, the jury came back with the verdict in my favor. but i had two women who came forward. one of them was still w

the court right now nationwide is about 20% understaffed, and that's why it's great to have someone who has an a.b.a. well qualified recommendation to go along with her nomination. she came out of the judiciary committee on a very large bipartisan vote. and the reason is she's been with a mid-sized law firm in little rock since 2000. she regularly accepts prisoner and other appointment cases from the federal courts. she's played a leadership role not just in the legal community but in other organizations in the larger community, and she is just going to be a fantastic addition to the federal bench, not just for arkansas but really nationwide. whenever i look at these nominees i ask myself three questions. first, can they be fair and impartial? i think for kris the answer is yes. second, do they have their credentials to bring to the bench to really represent the best and the brightest in the legal community, in her case the answer is yes. and third and this is especially important for a trial court judge, do they have the proper judicial temperament. for kris baker the answer to all thr

a level of attention and care in this trial courts that are overwhelmed with filings come out understaffed with support, and do not have enough judges to begin with to do their work. at the appellate level i do not think there is a crisis in the state courts system. i stand to be corrected by people with more experience to run the country, but we are such a tiny little portion of it functionally and financially that i do not think it is an issue. then tthe comment about immigran courts, that is a real issue whether these cases are getting any attention at all. when you look at the volume, i saw one study that suggested given the volume at the administrative level, it is too and that half minutes per case. >> judges are the sizing dozen cases -- the judges are deciding a dozen cases a day. >> you plead or you do a nol p rocess, the judge has a fee. you pay the money, right? there are people who cannot pay the money. they end up not being able to pay the money and and up getting arrested. is that part of it? i wonder where the scale for that feat comes from? -- for the fee comes from. >> it

. >> to spend tens of millions of dollars in half of understaffed that took testimony from 700 people with millions of pages of testimony and produce the report on what caused and causd to study 22 specific causes. we found evidence of all sorts of causes and confluence of the failures closely related to the private label securitization and the one thing that they exonerate it was the political housing goals. and of course the exonerate or they found fannie mae and freddie mac were led into this market by the private label market. the diagnosis is diametrically opposed to that of the financial crisis inquiry commission. that is nothing else counted. it was the scene of find on without which nothing that the entire crisis related to the existing of the housing policy, and of course with freddie may and fannie mac day led the way, and hud is the mission and provincial regulators and extended those housing goals to others in the market including the private label and so, everything else would be a symptom of what happened when that happened. so, in some sense the financial crisis in pre-

came in and central programs like training of the afghan national police, training billets were understaffed by 50%. the president far from defering the decision came to grips with it. with great clarity he made a campaign promise. he moved combat brigades to afghanistan began. he did that. he established a very clear policy with some definitive guidelines. the opposite of phenomenon of defering decisions. >> what about broader intellectual and social -- >> it is very dramatic investment in that. i think there is room for disagreement and i think eliot make as reasonable point in arguing for more counterradicalization programs, a point as far as i know governor romney has not begun to reflect on but it is, basically a program, if you look at the work that ambassador hole brock -- holbrooke opened up before he died and dan benjamin in the state department is carrying on, it is substantial activities associated with building institutions influencing populationing et cetera. then you add the credibility of the president himself in the vast reaches of the world, the vast credibility that was ver

think there probably is a diminution in care in trial courts that are overwhelmed with filings, understaffeddo not have enough judges to do their work. at the appellate level, i do not think there is a crisis in the state court system. i stand to be corrected by people with more experience around the country. we are such a tiny little portion of it, functionally and financially, but i do not think it is an issue. the comment about the immigration courts, that is a real issue, whether these cases are getting any attention at all. one study suggested that, given the volumes at the administrative level, you multiplied the number of minutes in a week and divide it by the number of cases. it is like to 0.5 numbers the case -- minutes -- it is like 2.5 minutes a case. >> what about the fees that are charged? when you plead or do -- the judge will assign some kind of feat. even in traffic court. you are happy they are not going to add any courts -- any points, and i say $170,000, and you pay the money. there are people who cannot pay the money. the and of not being able to pay the money, and it res