there is no excuse for us as a city to be so far out of whack on our ability to track on computers. it is an embarrassment cantonese to be remedied. >> supervisors, i have been a resident in san francisco since 1969. i was homeless myself, rehabilitated, and retired. in looking through the report, thank you for commissioning it. the numbers are useful, and adjust to underline one. , it says here that the marketing of affordable housing units should begin no later than 60 days from the certificate of occupancy, and that in several cases, the marketing did not start until 5-16 months after. we have been talking about affordable housing and we have a long delay now until it is actually in place. there should be some kind of -- how to keep them accountable. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter cohen, a long afternoon, and we have heard some tremendous public testimony that tells the story, a very human story that the data earlier reinforces. i want to punctuate a few things that we think really are the contacts for why we are facing a difficult task, but we're willing to face the analys

us. it may be that we as a city may need to make an investment to do an even larger review that looks at all of the residential foreclosures that have taken place in san francisco and to the extent that there is additional information that may be the city attorney's office or the district attorney's office would need, i think it would be important for us as a city to make that investment to make sure that we take this even further, if that is the need. >> absolutely. i think also, supervisors avalos and olague had some. we want to make sure that our tenant laws are being fully enforced in terms of their protection. but we also want to make sure that we have blight ordnances and vacancy ordnances that are being fully enforced, so i think there are a lot of local laws that have been passed. supervisor campos: and just to be some follow-ups, and i'm wondering about what you are seeing in the city compared to other parts of the city. >> what we found is similar to what john o'brien found in massachusetts. again, they have a state law, but the findings were very, very similar. i think and tal

as we continue in city hall to approach our budget season when we suffer through manual -- through annual budget deficits, the onus is on us as a city government to be as efficient as possible and given the massive dollar amounts at stake, solving our real estate management issues is a really big deal and a big step in that direction. i look forward to hearing from the city departments involved and the rest i submit. supervisor kim: i'm really exciting about the hearing supervisor farrell is calling for today. my time at the school district, it was frustrating to see surplus property line around it could generate revenue or generate bell you for our district weather was teacher housing or other usage for our youth in this san francisco. but the district often is not a real estate division and it's frustrating to the city is mired with the same challenges. i have three items i would like to submit today. the first and a good news, i am submitting a new safe san francisco civil-rights ordnance today. i know we just engaged in a lengthy process where we have heard our original ordinance and have gone through committee and two vote

i think it is important for us as a city to look at our for- profit contracts, whether it is our real estate leases or other for-profit contracts to see what it is that we do do in terms of the escalators. that has been mentioned before. and just to have a better evaluation of what kind of increases we generally give nonprofit and for-profit, and i think we need to look at this with an equity lens. but i certainly appreciate what everyone says. i spent years in the non-profit sector. i know what it is like to work between $30,000 to $40,000, and even when we did get as 1% or 2% increases, with increasing cost of living adjustments, and i want to thank everyone for taking the time to speak so eloquently about the work that you do and also to the folks that we serve who came out to talks eloquently about how the services are provided , so the thank you. chair chu: thank you, supervisor kim, and i know a number of the members of the audience said they view, but others have been sitting and patiently taking notes, so i want to thank them for sitting through, what is this now, i guess it i

business they cannot do something readily achievable when the 88 tells them that they can, and us as a city telling them that and and making them vulnerable to these predatory lawsuits is very frustrating for the business. from where i sit, i see the potential for inspectors to perhaps be in the private realm of if there are conflicting issues, that this is one of the authorities that can be developed. senator feinstein has directed the state to do something to help reduce these predatory lawsuits. if we need to strengthen it around inspections with the department of building inspections and their ability to have some authority, those are things that i know from our office and the business sector that we would be interested in exploring working with the california commission on disability and with their state legislatures in trying to strengthen some sort of ability for businesses to have assurance that the direction they're taking is the right direction under the readily achievable component. i don't know if like -- >> we have a whole process at this department that involves the access app

tech sf is the money that was granted to us as a city, and aimed at those entities that helped train kids like you and others to the technology skills so that you can get a job at ibm or twitter or salesforce or wells fargo or bank of america. all of these technology jobs need the skill sets. it is a good opportunity. we are working with entities. that has been putting those skills together. you can get enrolled in these nonprofits and cable brokerage you. you can get job training. i saw some of the kids. they are smiling because they know they have a future with all the these companies. they can move around and choose what it is they want to do. whether it is in the music industry, financial industry, social services industry. all of that will be tech driven. i been spending time making sure the city is safe, making sure we do with our budget. it is an exciting for me because it is the first time i ever did this. i have not been a politician before this. some of this stuff is coming at me in a new way. i have been working for government for 23 years. i try to use that experience in m

us -- sf big. you will hear from a small, local filmmaker, he will remind us where we come from as a city. then, we have another local company, a local person who helped us design the logo. and another company -- bold italics, who will help us look at the whole process and invite, hopefully, winners, and identify them for us. this platform will allow for the first time an online engagement of the public to help us with challenges in our city. not about just working with our technology companies. i want to involve our innovative mud -- minds as to how we can improve delivery of service. if you can locate in san francisco, you can get all the talent for your companies. we may as well use it for the broadest burke as possible, which is helping our city become a better city, a city that knows how to do everything better by using technology and encouraging the brightest minds in innovation to help us. i will be there. i will be watching all the ideas that come forth. we will ask you as part of the audience to help us with the challenge, and then we are going to ask you to give us even more ideas

a real responsibility to help investment and success of our city. spur is committed to making this happen. we hope that all of you join us as we work to leverage a lot of these partnerships once again. spur is a nonprofit. member-supported think tank in san francisco committed to the success of the city in all its forms. many of you are already members. can we get a show of hands of spur members? that's fantastic. thank you so much for your continued support of our organization. without your help, none of this would be possible. for those of you who are not yet members, i hope you'll join us and get involved. roll up your sleeves and really get involved in the nuts and bolts of the city. we can all work together to engage the city so we can all succeed together. we're all investors in this town. thank you very much for all of your support and for joining us this evening. it is now my pleasure to introduce wade rose, the chair of the 2012 good government awards. wade? [applause] >> thank you, cory. appreciate it. good evening, everyone, and welcome to the 32nd annual good government awards. 32 years. finding people to give a

a wedding. we've never used our relationships to maximize as a city our business opportunities around. and the city/state partnership with ex-im will be a key piece of that. lastly, let me say this. as we're modernizing our infrastructure and we're also turning and using ex-im as a partner in achieving our goals and educating our workforce. each of these are part of a strategy that are complementary. using chicago's strength with its workforce, chicago's strength as the -- what i would call the inland port, we're the only inland city in america with an international economic footprint. what miami does, seattle does, san diego does, l.a. does, boston, houston, because they live on the coastal part of america and look out. chicago is the only inland city that looks out. it has the only transportation system and distribution system that allows it not only to look out but to look into america. its workforce is highly skilled, highly motivated. it still has the sector of as i said the flat-roof manufacturing. it did not lose in the advance manufacturing jobs at the pace the rest of the manu

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