as well as a rate review. the charter also requires a price tier to be considered them for us to hire an independent consultant to review the cost of service as well as the rates and to bring them before you. today i have 14 brief slides i would like to walk you through. the most important part from the staff perspective is to hear from you if there is a particular criteria or rate design or creative policy idea or implementation policy would like us to factor in as we review these rates and proposed rates, and then have those ready for you to deliberate on and consider it later this year in late november or early december. if i could just transition to the power point here on the computer, the review progress and objectives of the first item -- we have contacted with others to contribute to the rate design and rate analysis. to date we will update you on where they are and get your thoughts on criteria, a key policy directives, and special rate setting. you will be able to share those today and have agreements and questions all throughout the fall. we encourage you to forward those to us as well. the key deli

kraft foods has joined us this year, and i would like to invite the area vice president to join us as well. [applause] [applause] our last one as for our friend, wells fargo, who is always with us since 2005. is the sentence is the metro district manager here? i think he is still on his break. thank you for joining us in this celebration. this is the official celebration of the city, and it has really touched me every year to see our major bout here with us. it means a lot with us. -- to see our mayer brown here with us. it means a lot to us. >> these and gentlemen, da mayor, willie brown. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am, of course, delighted to again be part of this celebration. claudine is absolutely correct. in a city and county of sentences, the diversity that exists here in terms of age, sexual orientation, race, national origin, religious interests, all of those items are part of what we each celebrate with each other, even though we may not be technically a part of it. that is what makes it such a very special city. as indicated, we are meeting some challenges now, facing ou

this will enable the data which they're now using to be reviewed by the department and by us as well to see whether this really does performed and if it does perform, we are satisfied. obviously, if you cannot continue this, we have demonstrated there are serious issues that are not being addressed. and a minimum, it if you tonight our appeal, you should require -- revise the permit to require the separation of the vertical element. i have copies of these slides if the board would like them. >> when you raise the issue of about the slide and about the project sponsor who has agreed to make cuts in order to allow the more lateral movement, it has that happened after the peer review? >> we are talking about concessions as far as i understand. i am assuming that is something that they have agreed to in the past 10 days because only in the past 10 days we have been in the meeting to allow us to examine this data so we can explain what we are looking for in terms of modifications to the structure of the design so that this will have a minimum structural safety. >> the reason i am asking i

the director of 911 is here with us as well as one of my colleagues, battalion chief jose vella. we also have someone else who works closely with 911. i want to say that this is one of the best parts of my job, to come out and talk to the students. we hope that you will learn something about how important is to practice and be prepared. what you are going to do today is a drop, cover, and hold drill. you will then exit to a designated area. we want you to go home and tell your families about what you have learned and prepare a plan for your own home. what the plan would be, how he would meet with everyone, and so forth. talk to your families and educate them. you are students and will be like a teacher to teacher families things that you will learn and practice today. would you like to say anything to the children? >> you did a great job on the first drill. i was here for it. let's see you do that again. remember to hold on when you get under the best -- desk this time. wait for the signal. i am very impressed with all of you. i can see why you thought she was a chef because you

us. we put all of our heart on the territory. we are minors, we are strong people. everything else is due to the professionals. the professionals included, as well as the media. please, i would like to ask you not to treat us as chavez-like figures. i would like you to treat me like a minor. i would like to keep working. this is my fate. life has given me beautiful things. it has treated me hard as well, but you have to appreciate the right things in life. i am one of the lucky ones. if you can contact your family, please. think twice. love it is the most wonderful thing that there is. the love of your parents and your family. i am very happy for all the to have done for us. really very happy. i have buried 40 years of my life and now want to live much longer with my family, my son, my daughter, my wife. >> he was speaking just an hour and a half after he had been brought to the surface. very poignant, very moving words about what this entire period of time underground meant for him and his relationship with his family. the rescue operation is going so well, it has already had an impact on the approval ratings for the president's. they had been

the steps in terms of which buildings should be dealt with would be a priority system built upon use as well as building type. so an example of use might be housing. the building type might be 23407b deductible cement frames with 50 or more units. something along that line. this allows us the need to cover san francisco as well as to deal with the safety. >> we'll make additional recommendations about falling hazards some are already covered by code for new buildings. fire code is huge for san francisco. can't talk about earthquakes without talking about fire. our modeling losses will be released soon but show housing losses that can be very, very high. fire is one of those estimate that is has a huge uncertainty in terms of the average, which we'll report. but on a dry, windy day, losses could be much, much worse on a rainy day, they might be much less. 3w we'll present average conditions and the average conditions are startling. the number of fires associateed with a magnitude 7.2 earthquake are the same as the number of fire houses we have in san francisco. the number of buildings lost or

i want to thank you both for bringing it to us as well as the work i know you're going to do in the coming months and years to make sure this program hopefully does become an ideal model for the rest of this state and country. with that, colleagues, could i ask if we could move this without -- yes, supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to complement our colleague, supervisor david chiu. i also have co-sponsored on to this legislation. in san francisco for a good 20 years before we eeven had a department of environment has really been testing the boundaries of the federal government's registry on what they consider to be acceptable or not in terms of household and workplace toxic that -- toxins that people are exposed to on a daily basis. and that we understand that due to the powerful interest of the chemical industry, especially their grip on washington, and how that influences the kind of registry in giving the acceptable means of toxins just like what is being evaluated here today because of the relationship to nail salons, etc., that that on a national level is considered

introduced interim controls in january, which the department,moh -- the department and moh have been using, as well as taking a good, clean look at the program and incorporating some of the additional requirements that have come up that were not included in the code, as well as other changes the moh needed to update programming requirements planning -- to update programming requirements. the planning commission needed to update requirements, some of which were discussed at that hearing, and the others were given to moh to work out all of the details. chandra egan from moh is here to work out all of those. i do want to note that the program itself is not changing. it is still an inclusionary housing program. the percentages and the triggers are not changing at all. any project that has five or more units must comply can must use the affordable housing program. the percentages for the fee as well as the on and off site is not changing. the percentages and requirements for all of the eastern area plan as well as the market octavia neighborhood plan is all staying the same. what we have done and why it

loathing also serves the hotels uses as well as the residences. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is pamela duffy. the reason i'm so late in turning in my heart is because i do not ordinarily speak at a certification hearing. i figured this is the city's eir, but there has been such a panoply of commentary that relates to the actual substance of the project that i thought i might take a moment and try to characterize this in a little more leveling sort of way. i think there has been considerable confusion in the testimony so far between the advocates -- adequacy of the document and whether or not people think the project itself is meritorious. the document is extensive. it is rather remarkable. i meant to carry it up here with me, but i have a bad shoulder. the document for what we're dealing with, which is the replacement of an existing tower and whether or not it relates well, and constructively to what is there and what has been there since 1961, is being characterized as some radical new undertaking, and i think the environm

and until proper measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitating uses as well as left ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight sara fair. catching bag. in just a few days russia's capital will get its new mayor the majority party in the city parliament united russia says it will approve the candidacy of sort of case of yunnan currently a deputy prime minister who was nominated by president meant we had a fifty two year old a subway and then is an outsider to moscow he was born in a siberian village and spent most of his career working away from the capital as he moved to moscow only five years ago replacing dimitri mentally at them as the head of the russian presidential administration the previous man yuri luzhkov who was head of the city for nearly two decades was sacked by the president last month dimitri public from the united russia party explain to watch the why he thinks so be on in the right man for the job. i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flow it's a matter of. federal importance moscow is a special seat here and it

as well. but he has been out there for a while. alicia menendez joins usn is back with us, as well. a lot of debate about the effectiveness in terms of getting the vote out of surrogates. we know that they're raising money and raising a lot of money. do you think they can make a difference in terms of getting out of the vote? >> i think, first of all, in terms of michelle obama that we've already learned that she's a charismatic, bright, interesting person. we learned that right before president obama took office. the problem is that spouses in this case, male or female, they kind of reinforce the office holder and, in this case, i think when you've got president obama's numbers going down what michelle obama's presence on the campaign trail might reflect is how weak the president may be at the moment. i mean, the question came up in the california gubernatorial debate last night, do you want president obama out here campaigning for it. just the fact that that question was asked tells you a lot about what happened to the fading star power of president obam

and until proper measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitating uses as well as left ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight sarah fair. you catch him bag. moscow is just days away from getting a new mayor the united russia party which holds a majority in the city parliament says it will support setting is to be on and nominated by president medvedev fifty two year olds to be on him was born in the siberian village and spent most of his career working away from moscow he moved to the capital only five years ago replacing could be as the head of the russian presidential administration the previous mayor was sacked by the president after losing his trust to put a comma not from the united russia party explains why so be on it is believed to be the right man for the job. so i think it's not a matter of control of politics and money flows it's a matter of the city or federal importance moscow is the special city and the supposed to be the in the vanguard of modernisation and actually the federal government has a lot from vicious plans of how to create a

and until proper measures are in place to deal not only with the dealers but in rehabilitating uses as well as left to ordinary people like themselves to stand and fight to free the city of drugs sarah . you catch him bag. volved. approach is totally illegal to me it sounds like torture is in the end we have to differ here the result did nothing. to level. the conditions of. the drug. resembles prisons and even worse. and still to come on the program sochi is in pole position not content with just staging the winter olympics russia's black sea resort is on track to host the world's most glamorous sporting to be tacklers. and we need the outcasts of indian society find out why widows are being abandoned by their families to live their last years alone. to germany now chancellor angela merkel says attempts to build a multicultural society there have failed her comments come amid recent strong anti immigrant statements from mainstream politicians a recent survey suggested more than thirty percent of germans believe the country is being overrun by foreigners the study by the freedom hébert foun

this stuff and part of it is just another example of pace it's time to increase our force as well as all of us say as well this is the first joint venture between russia and the mountain companies and the total cost of this project is not to make it to be over one point seven billion dollars if this month will be only from the seeds by this year well the find this stuff to production platforms what is yeah and a standalone in the south and part of. the sap and one is in the area to stumble to supply the whole facility what law materials companies and busted and so belgica see more broadly and you have the production side and as we were told this before it is the biggest and capable to time at one moment according to thomas pace a chairman off the board because this the board ship is in mabel's the company to consider supplying to the european people east markets were at the moment of the priority is to use the mastic markets. m m k has the controlling stake and the project however is still the target the mass that is consumed as model consumption in the country is growing fifteen percent on th