we began during the renovation work in three of the units that were occupied and by the longer- term tenants. i believe have been there as many as 20 years. another is a, and a number -- another is 23. >> they called with regard to the work that was being done in the other units. it was, as a result of this process, the contractor we were using, a licensed contractor had done some work, replaced a water heater and replaced a heater. the contractor was immediately instructed to get permits for the work. there is a conflict between the contractor and they told me they will not work on our building anymore. we retained another licensed contractor, a lead certified licensed contractor and they began doing work in the building. we prioritize the work that needed to be done while the contractor was doing the sewer pipe that runs the entire length of the building. he noticed that the flooring needed to be replaced. we went out, got a permit, i arranged with the tenant, for him to have a porta-potti put in in front of the building for him to be able to use the showers and some facilities, and

other thing, a couple of months ago we had until a unit was vacant and it was the unit the other people would use while the work was happening in their unit. >> so just to be clear, even if we do nothing, your department can revel kitten and start over and fix the issues? >> they could not be done on the sperm that -- on this permit. the cost is too low. commissioner peterson: i have another question for mr. epstein. was she effected -- she evicted? >> she got a one week stay. >> there is a possibility that her unit may be vacated? >> she would have used of the bathroom without a doubt. commissioner garcia: assuming you get a new permit. commissioner peterson: that was my question. >> on that permit, i agree with mr. duffy to address the borad -- broad and general things. the completion of the bathroom, i would absolutely past that we be permitted to complete that. i think he plumbing pipe is on there. >> i think you would be better to take that offline with mr. duffy. >> commissioners? >> i will start, but i am not sure i am going anywhere. it is difficult to see the position from both sides. on the one hand,

ordinary dance companies that we have assembled dancers from all of these companies to present a united workn celebration of the bicentennial. >> dancers from over 20 countries are staunch cultures are participating. >> one of the things that is inspiring is how many are being invited back to their home countries as cultural ambassadors from the u.s.. we are teaching them in committees so that the next generation here in america and back to india or bali or whatever will be able to get enriched by these very beautiful art forms. >> thank you for watching "culture wire." and you can find more information >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look a

we work with europe and the united states and we work on how europe and the united states can work together on the major world challenges like climate change and economic trade and development, just a number of issues the program i run goes back to the early days in the first 20 years when we were primarily a grantmaker making grants to low-cal practitioners and policymakers. i started this program about four years, five years ago now, i think, time flies, to really bring in members of our marshall memorial fellowship network of which david chiu is one of our alumni. some of our past grantees and also the next crop of practitioners and local civic leaders who are really looking to change their home communities by looking abroad or looking to other cities to see what other cities are doing well and how that might be imported back home or translated back home. so the comparative dom particular policy program works primarily in the 25 cities that doug mentioned, but not exclusively in those cities. we really are looking for some of the best practices in education and workforce development, in

traffic been decentralized to stations. 40% of motorcycle lawyers work downtown. 50% of the honda unit work on part and the control. there were teams volunteering to go nights and weekends. you have to remember that is in addition. in the past, we have taken from patrol to create special things within patrol. that is fishing from the same bucket. these officers were not working nights and weekends. they were outside of patrol. when you put 35 to 40 knowledgeable officers -- it is akin to putting an academy class on night. we lose people to retirement. having officers of this caliber go nights and weekends is on top of what we already had. hopefully in mid-october, we will have the offices open. you can find people moving through the hall of justice as we create the special victims unit of the san francisco police department, consolidating sex crimes, domestic violence, a vice, a juvenile, elder abuse, and financial crimes into one unit. with diminishing resources, to have them all in the same place -- the attorneys, the advocates, moving them up to the fifth floor, where they are not amongs

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they set of this program, and in allowed mexican workers to come into the united states to work legally, and loosely translated, the spanish word means strong arm, and that is what this letter feels like. you feel as though if you are going to be a member of the business community, a member of a community at all, there are certainly legal responsibilities, but there are responsibilities, one would hope, on a humanistic level, and the tone of this letter is not very user friendly. it is aggressive. it does not properly defined, i do not mean to use the word properly, it does not reasonably defined what someone's rights are and how they are to be treated when they have been in the building for a long time. certainly, they were there long before this building was purchased by mr. britton, and at the very least, one would have hoped that a letter would have gone out but said "i am not want to continue to allow you to have washing machines on the deck, and here are the reasons. there is a potential for the washing machine to leak, and that would damage the wood and increased opportunity for

united states of america. but he also made government work again. we just need to know they are the millennials and ed year lease to traditional family structure more have been raised in single-parent households and least religious generation and least affiliated with organized religion only one-quarter identify with the organized religion however 67% say they pray every day so they believe in god and have by using call themselves spiritual but do not identify with organized religion. as much as previous generations and also have of the west hangups of sexual aren't hit -- orientation where the majority believe of same-sex marriage. given these guidelines how do we connect to sell our message especially in 2012 which is the next big opportunity to make our case to the millennials? i think what we need to do is look at the issues that are most important to the country right now which is paying attention to the debates to the deficit's come in entitlement reforms while 55 percent still like obama personally, they can see his policies have been tried a

as we had units working with the northern alliance. a group -- a tribe of tribes that was resisting the taliban. so he -- from that background he was a sering opponent of the war in iraq. because he thought that our principal adversary was afghanistan and that we should stay the course there until we took on more adversaryies. i might say in the book, i recount a discussion, i'm not now going to break not new news, but i don't name him in the book. but in february of 2002, about four months into the afghanistan war, i went to central command which is located at mcdill air force base in tampa to get a briefing of the state of the afghanistan war. it was a fairly standard military briefing, lots of powerpoints and optimism about the progress that we've made and that we would make in the future. when the briefing was over, the commander of central command at the time. , general tommy franks, said senator i'd like to talk to you privately. he went into his office and he said we are no longer fighting a war in afghanistan. i said we don't u

high -- rm importance of plaque history months also reminds us of the power of all americans united and workingsus data that's been released people have been spending a lot of time lamenting that the african-american pop lakes is at 3.9% and i am really here to encourage you that our numbers may be diminishing but we are also here, present and we are still strofpblgt we don't need to have huge numbers but we must remain engaged in order to make sure to we remain relevant. the last two years have been a meaningful time for all of us with obama in the administration. i'm personally very proud of the work that he has done, that we have done here in san francisco among a wide array of voters and to be elected by what many consider the last batchtyon of president african-american community in after, it is a special honor to be here today buff. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor mirkarimi is here with us but before he calms -- comes up -- comes up i want to mention ralph lewin, with the california huh-uh -- humanities council here with us also. we have a number of other elected

, as we had units working with the northern alliance, tribes that were resisting the taliban. so, from that background, he was a searing opponent of the war in iraq because he thought that our principle adversary was afghanistan and that we should stay the course there until we took on more adversaries. and i might say in the book, i recount a discussion and i am now going to break, not new news, but i don't name it in the book. but, in february of 2002, about four months into the afghanistan war, i went to central command, which is located at mcgill air force base in tampa, to get a briefing of the state of the afghanistan war and it was a fairly standard military briefing, lots of power points, and optimist about the progress we had made and that we would make in the future. when the briefing was over, the commander of central command at the time, general tommy franks, said senator i would like to talk with you privately. we went into his office and he said, we are no longer fighting a war. which i said, i don't understand. we just had this briefing about how well our effor

work than is permitted. there is a separate permit under this application for the heaters in unit 358. there is at least one other permit that has been pulled under this application. we have been working within the rules, even though the application itself might be broad. i'm committed to make sure the paperwork is right. it is our belief that the work itself has been done under the permit has been permitted. >> i think that mr. epstein is referring to maybe plumbing permits. those are fine. i don't have any issues. of a flight to work to figure out each notice of violation to see if it would be ok to go ahead. during my research, i saw that it could not do it on this permit. it will probably mean another permit to to leak from the scope of this permit. there is no it the way to do this without revoking. i don't want to revoke it, i would rather clean it up a little bit like getting a permit that takes some of these items of, which i think would be acceptable to mr. epstein. >> there is another option, mr. dufty, that we continue this case if we can modify the permit. perhaps we should

was a threat to the democracies, not only in the western world, but in the middle east, the united nations, workingconcert with the united states and her allies, determined it was time for him to go. what president obama has said we're not at war with libya, i don't need to go to the congress or the war powers resolution to seek congressional approval, because it's not a war, yet he wants to take credit in a war in libya he's allegedly leading from behind? that's the difference, gene. he worked with great britain, he worked with our allies and a coalition of the willing, and we took down a dictator there. >> last time i checked, the u.n. and the arab league both wanted us to go into libya. >> correct, ron, but of course president obama said after initially committing u.s. troops and forces over in that part of the region said, no, we don't want american troops here, we're going to turn it over to nato, we're going to lead from behind. we're not at war, we're in a kinetic military activity. it's all silly. that's the difference between what president obama has done and what president bush did. >> yo

because, when you are working in a building where you also promiseall of the construction g on, and when our goal is to make this building seismically safe, and when every unit gets a working bathroom, accessible showers on every floor come and that people can live here while that is happening, that is an incredible, complex thing to do in the heart of our city in the tenderloin. tried to do that in another community, -- try to do that in another community. it is hard. you need a tight-knit community. i was walking around here this morning. it is all smiles. though they know that they have got a great place to be, for a long time. the significance of this rehabilitation has other aspects of our wealth and human for the city. its seismic upgrades. extremelif you know me, one of my passions is to be sure we are ready for the next earthquake. for folks who could not move elsewhere, to feel safe in the building they were a part of, helped to contribute to making seismically safe, and our earnings and ability to have earthquake insurance cover them, we have a fantastic story to tell here. in addition, it has added 105 units to the whole 10-year end homeless progr

i know she worked with united players. to talk about a successful working with the program at a community based organization and other folks on speak to the barriers and strengths. >> i have been with up for a year and they provide amount. it's a violence prevention organization. they take you on field trips to fight for the power. the stop the violence. what i really liked about it. not only did it help you to fight for power. but provided you with jobs. i know it helped a lot of kids and they come in and a lot of schools. they come in and we have meetings. we talk about many stuff. but i think, once a youth has an organization helping them out. when they are aware of all the stuff, it's really up to you. the youth is aware. the up awared me of a lot of stuff. it's up to me if i want to stop the violence. if your community, in your hood for your people. >> principle dierck. >> i would like to say, one of the barriers we need to work on is, we write a lot of grants at my school. we have 26 partners. so that means most of th

the realignment team will work within the existing reentry units. the public defender's office has a reentry unit that has a social work component, and the clean slate program. the social work program provides high-quality clinical work and advocacy. the social workers place hundreds of clients on a yearly basis and hundreds of clients on community-based programs and social services. the goal -- the reason the realignment team will work within the office's reentry unit is so that we can build on prior successes. we conducted a study in 2009 that evaluated our program, and the evaluation showed -- and i provided you a copy of the evaluation -- that almost every client that had a social worker and an attorney working as a team together -- almost 98% had a favorable legal outcome, and they were placed in community- based programs and residential programs and in treatment services. the goal at this point with realignment is to expand on programs that are successful, and that is the point of having the realignment team working through an existing success

united states. my family is from mexico did my grandfather was recruited to work here in the united states during world war ii. my father emigrated here. i sister and my mother emigrated in 1967. we have very different experiences for all three of those members of my family. in my entire professional life, i was looking back. i've always been around immigration law. i am proud that it has been so. someone asked me if i ever regretted been so focused on that. i said i did not do it on purpose. somebody just told me once to do what you love and everything will work out. i'm pleased to say that it has. we were told to give our perspective a little bit. it's hard not to speak personally about comprehensive immigration reform and what it means. i had the privilege to work on some of the most meaningful cases to me. i know it's the one place in san francisco i always know how to get to. to give you a brief legislative update, one of the things that i said before ever working for a congressperson, if they knew how immigration law worked, they would have never signed the 1996 bill. on my watch, it's very impor