city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> hi, i'm lawrence corn field. welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. >> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecti

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> we love our parks, but we love... >> and the community who is really the core of it all, came together and said what we need is a place for our teenager to play, not just play grounds for the kids and soccer fields but we need a skate park that will keep the kids home in the neighborhood so they can play where they live. >> the children in the neighborhood and it will be a major boone. and we have generations, the youth generations that will be able to use this park in different places. >> the best park in san francisco right here. >> creating place where people can be active and lead, active, healthy life styles that are going to just stay with them for life. ♪

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >>> >>> good afternoon. welcome to the tuesday may 21, 2013 board of supervisors meeting in the county of san francisco which is proud to be part of the san francisco bay area which is hosting the super bowl for 2014. >> clerk, call the roll? >> campos, avalos,

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> good afternoon and wg welcome to the localation formation commission. across from me is david campos and other commissioners as they arrive. clerk of the board is elisa miller and we are brought together by sfgtv staff whose name i don't have but i want to thank them for their service. >> madam clerk please call the next item >> item no. 2, march 25th, meeting with the san francisco commission. >> thank you. any comments or questions or changes? let's go to public complent -- comment on the last minutes on the march 25th meeting. seeing none for this item. can we have a motion to approve these minutes? motion by breed and campos. next item. >> item no. 3. activities report on power program, status update on the proceedings on california public commission. >> great. thank you. we have this update coming up right now to plug in before barbara miller, hale start. i stood before the public commission on tuesday and we'll get a date for the approval meetin there is not that action at the puc. i know as w

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> this is a meet of the recreation and parks commission and will the secretary please call the roll. >> commissioner buell? >> here. >> commissioner low? >> here. >> commissioner arata? >> here. >> commissioner bonilla. >> commissioner harrison. >> here. >> and commissioner levitan is on her way. we are -- let me just make a couple of announcements. first of all, item 6 and 6a will be heard as one. and 6 is only a discussion item and 6a is to be voted on, but the two will be heard together. as a reminder, we ask that you turn off any electronic-sounding devices that may go off during the proceedings. we would also ask that you plse

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do nobe

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to b

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers.> >> >>> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. this is tuesday may 14, meeting of the programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. can we have a roll call. our clerk is erica chang. >> commissioner breed? present, commissioner campos, absent. kim absent, march present. yee, are we have a quorum. >> thank you. i would like to thank jessie larson from sfgtv for televising us today. >> item 2. approve the minutes of the april 16, 2013 meeting sf 23 please call the next item. >> item 3. item 3: citizens advisory committee report sf 33 >> good morning. commissioners my name is joseph flan gan and i'm the vice-chair for the committee. there are three items on your agenda that the cac took action on in april. item 6, cac an approved the bay view hunters point mobile study final report and business plan unanimously after a discussion regarding the source of funding that will include both public and private funding. staff informed the cac that their expectation is priva

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers.> >> good morning everyone. we would like to thank you to our station. our members moved into in station and became operational march 19th. we thank you for being here today. it could not have been done without the help of many people. i want to welcome you all to this station. it's a beautiful firehouse, a new firehouse. i was 6 years old in 1st grade on moscow street. we are delighted to be here. it's also a creative and unique collaborative effort. something we have never done before. it a partnership all the way. we want to thank and acknowledge the museum of modern art. we talked about the concept of the museum of modern art which if you have not been to, it's a wonderful place to visit. their needs and desires to expand for educational programs and for more of their collection. the property at 676 howard, we identified it was a place not seismic ready for our members. it's as fire safety it's of paramount importance. when they talked to us about the ideas, they came together and decided to change

city hall. thank you, again, for all coming to visit us at city hall, please do not be strangers. >> the meeting will call to order. welcome to the regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. my name is malia cohen and i am the chair and to my right is supervisor katy tang and to my left is supervisor david campos and the clerk of the committee is the ever fabulous miss andrea. and i would like to thank our friends up in sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. i would like to acknowledge jennifer low and jesse t. larson:madame clerk any announcements today. >> yes, please make sure to silence all electronic devices and files submitted to clerk and items will appear on the june 4th, 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise state >> thank you, madame clerk cowl call item no. 1. >> resolution declaring the intention to renew and expand property-based business improvement district known as the central market community benefit district >> ladies and gentlemen, we have lisa pagan and daniel hurtado from the land use and economic development committee and they are here to p

these awards are important and they're an important opportunity for all of us at city hall to make a the people and organizations that work hard every day to make our neighborhoods the very best that they are. so, i have the distinct pleasure to introduce one of my most favorite people, city employees here in san francisco. y'all just heard from mr. clean, and that's who we affectionally call the director of dpw mohammed nuru. and he has a right hand and that right hand, her name is sandra zanega. it doesn't matter what neighborhood you're in, you can call either one of them and they will tell you what's going on. they know what's going on in that neighborhood and they know the pumps of what's going on in that neighborhood. not only do they reach out to every neighborhood association, merchant association, but they also work hard with the corporate sponsors to make sure that they are committed to our neighborhoods, to making sure that they are clean, that the graffiti is removed, that the dumping is taken away, that we have vibrant commercial corridors, vibrant commercial -- vibrant

us you never get to leave. i want to thank all of them. we have actually over 70 or 80 volunteers but they're all over at city hall for us to get there. some of us are sitting in front of commuter with facebook and twittering but once in a while a lot of the responsibilities i wish who's going to do all the work? this reminds me ever a celebration and i'm sure our co- chairs feel it, too coming together and doing what they can to make it happen. somebody asked about us the asian pacific american families and for us coming from us volunteers we have thought about one person came to mind over the years - i mean, i have worried about every little detail and over the years i've learned that people will take care of this and i learned i can trust this person so this evening we want to thank for all your years of contribution ron (clappin (clapping). improvision ron (laughter) we got the call for the next 9 years; right? >> thank you. it's been a real pleasure working with this lady and i really like to organization and i've been helping here for 9 years and it's a pleasure every year to see all you porters who come out to work with this pr

us you never get to leave. i want to thank all of them. we have actually over 70 or 80 volunteers but they're all over at city hall for us to get there.

expecting -- planning to have a news conference here in the next 35 to 40 minutes to give us some information at city halltion on where we are right now with the search and rescue but again, you can see what's left over out here. not a lot. homes are destroyed. this school, you can tell, there are a few walls standing but barely that. we've seen from those aerials these rescuers doing their very best to go through this debris to try to find survivors. we just wait and see until we get an update. >> george, what you've seen on your way there, how would you describe the devastation? as you've talked about in oklahoma, we just saw tom foreman, there is so much open space, yet this storm, this tornado, came and hit right in the middle of where 200,000 people live. >> you know, when we were driving into the neighborhood, we started to see -- you start to see the debris in the roads, then you keep going, the roads -- traffic gets worse. it's harder to get into the neighborhoods because people again, as i said, are trying to get into the neighborhoods themselves to see if their homes are still there. then you st

us. >>> this is another look at the may day march that went from mission district to city hall. they're protesting the lack of ned ral immigration reform. this is part of bay area wide and nationwide world wide in fact may day protests but focus here in the bay area immigration reform. >> looking for clues in the brutal murder of an 8-year-old girl in a northern california town. she was found stabbed to death in her valley springs home. the sheriff's department held a briefing this afternoon. >> the first update we've had since monday night we know investigators are reaching out to other agency in northern california to see if there are similar crimes involving children and we know they're focusing on that house where laila was killed. >> we stril a search warrant in progress at this house. >> the sheriffs say they have no new breaks in the murder of 8-year-old laila fowler but did reveal what evidence was taken from the home. >> some dna evidence. i cannot go into other information on that. some fingerprints. and have a few knifes, being exammidge yined to determine this f.that

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us. we are getting calls at city hall about one a minute. >> what is the situation at the school?ounted for. they told me. as far as i know that is what i was told a while ago about 20 minutes ago. so they are still going through looking for anybody that might have been left from a housing addition. we know that or think two of the people that were killed actually the lady who was picking up her child at the school, taking him out of school and got caught in the tornado. it was out in a field across from the school. other than that i think everybody has been accounted for now. there was a report that there were quite a few unaccounted for because the rolls at the school were lost when the tornado hit. >> i talked to the state medical examiner last night and they had double what the death toll is now. they may have miscounted. >> i don't know. i can't explain that. >> it is good news. >> i am glad that it is down in half. 24 from 51. five of those were in oklahoma city and the rest here in moore. >> when you look around this is the bowling alley. you survived in '99. how does it co

city of moore. emergency teams continued to search for survivors overnight through miles of debris. jane wells is on the ground and she joins us with the latest. >> hi, becky. i'm at moore city hall where they're corralling the media and where they will brief us on the rescue efforts and recovery efforts. at least 20 children dead, more than 100 people injured in the hospital with what locals here are saying is the worst tornado they've ever seen. listen. >> well, when i was in the building, i could feel rumbling and everything and there was, like, a turned. it flipped off the door and i could see it with my own eyes. >> wow. >> after that, pretty much it threw bricks all over my body. >> it's a life-changing status. and i kind of -- i was in the tub and i woke up and she was underneath me and i thought she was dead because she wasn't moving or anything like that. i just took a deep breath and i said, i'm alive. >> i want you to take a look at this time lapsed video. it shows the tornado plowing across 22 miles over at least 40 minutes, reportedly a mile wide at times, classified by the weather service at at least an ef-4, the second most powerful with winds as strong as 200 mile

used to be. this morning at 11:00 the warriors plan to unveil a revised's plan that will go before a city hall hearing for scrutiny tomorrow. >> tomorrow the warriors tip off against the spurs. the warriors have lost 29 games in a war at that arena. a limited number of tickets go on sale to the general public tuesday morning at 10:00. for sports now, tonight the sharks play the vancouver canucks in game three of the playoff series tonight. san jose won the first two games of the best-of-seven series. at 5:00 p.m. a sharks rally will be held across from hp pavilion ahead of the game, which starts at 7:00. again, lisa, we are telling people because of cinco de mayo and the thousands and thousands of people expected in downtown san jose, plan ahead. avoid the congestion. >> good advice. >> if you can. >> right. and also bring the jacket. although some people might like the switch from the very hot temperatures and the records to the cool-down for the runners and biker, perhaps. a lot of events going on around the bay today. log this is the 7hd. we picked up a few hundreds from the coast. not out of the q

city hall. that's where the city council has been discussing the budget proposal. >>> boy injured in the boston bombings is finally at home tonight. john spoke with the boy's parents and tells us what aaron wants most for his 12th birthday tomorrow. >> after what was likely the longest two weeks of their life, the hearn family arrived home this afternoon. >> able to kind of keep a little bit of tabs of what was going on back here, but fwhefr have really gotten the chance to -- to thank everybody for everything they've been doing for us back here while we were away. >> their almost 12-year-old son aaron was hurt in the bombing as his morphinished the boston marathon april 15th. he faces a lot of physical therapy. we didn't see aaron, but his parents say he should make a full recovery. >> going to take some time to work out and just physically, too. i mean, mentally, it's --. >> it's a longer road. >> there's a lot on his shoulders right now for a 12-year-old kid, seeing what he saw. >> some of aaron's schoolmates stopped by the home before the hearns' return. the school is buzzing about aaron being back on campus. his parents say they will likely work with teachers and counselo

in san francisco at this hour, one of many may day workers rights demonstrations on the steps of city hall. tara moriarty is joining us. >> reporter: more are here to celebrate international workers day and joining me live is jackie. >> we have a broad range of workers rights to support all. >> reporter: what are some things you fight for? >> equal rights, workers pay, and making sure there's opportunities for communities of color to have sustainable lives here in san francisco and all over, actually. >> reporter: thank you very much for joining us. if you take a look here across the street, you can see that they are beating on the drums and they have a lot of folks driving by and, of course, they will honk and lots of cheers and support. we have folks from labor unions, community-based organizations, and environmental groups. basically, they say they're here to support san francisco's hard working families and one of the supervisors is going to come and speak here shortly. we have a lot of events going on for the may day and four different cities here. we can take a look at different events and san francisco, from 3:

at all and monetary thing; it's a political thing. it's used by your mta and certainly by you mr. reiskin, and your boss in city hall mr. lee, as a means of harassing the poor and the working class. we don't have any cost down on montgomery street checking the bankers coming in and out of the doors, finding out how many billions they stole from us. you are not having them say, look, you turn in your buddy who ripped off a widow of her house, turn that in and get her work. no. you are continuously attacking the poor and the working class. it's a political attack on us. >> chair nolan: anyone else care to address the board on the director's report. none. >> moving on to the citizens advisory council report. item 9, public comment, opportunity for members of the public to address the board on items not on today's agenda.

use committee at the same time >> thank you very much. next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm a board of directors of the homes. this is the size the city hall combined and because of this deinterrogating continue we have a huge project and i consider myself a developer. to be serious we need a comprehensive process outlined by sequa instead of a top down approach and approved by the planning department it requires the condemnation from neighborhood associations. i could see the freedom west will involve a series of hearings and i hope your platoons will be unanimously heard and approvedly agencies. it would allow environmental organizations and the business community and the housing activists and instead of negotiating the projects in order to create a plan that all parties could stand behind. a community used the process early. and with something so large and complicated as at the development of freedom west there will be new and excepted modifications. while i want to be a developer that my community would accept. the kim amendment is a necessary and a balance approach on city planning and development. the current legislation >> thank you

at city hall. this concludes the ddpc report for may. the ddpc meets on every other friday. the next one is july 5, 2013 in room 421 in city hall. please join us. >> thank you, chip. i'm sorry. i apologize. i will get it right. chip. i better think of them chips i want in a few minutes. >> next we have item no. 9. public comment. within the jurisdiction of the mdc. each speaker is limited to we give you three minutes. and we have miss jackie. i was >> i was at the meeting. since my horse is not dead, i can serve as a drum. i'm going to the fact that we have had an ada compliant accommodation april 30, 2010 and i would like to give the mayor's office an at some opportunity the proposals that we included in this ordinance. carla was not the director at the time, the other person was. who is no longer with us. i have my reasons. so carla now it's going to be on you to get the money and get to the media and let's get out there, the bicycle coalition, every time i turn around, when i'm not playing dodge by the. when they say it was ride bike to workday. it was right your bike on the sidewalk to workday. wow. you know, i didn't even have a cane. wel

at mail screening facilities. made us wonder how much mail gets screened? >> a person could argue oakland city hall was a safe place. but after yesterday's poison ricin letters to michael bloomberg, mall mail to public officials has come under scrutiny. >> there are people who i argue do thing that's may be irrational and wrong. >> the security is a large issue that the city won't let it near it's room. san jose admitted it does use scanning machines here in oakland... >> i can't talk about the security plan. >> this is as close as we can get to the oakland sort prog ses, one room from which separate departments pick up mail by hand. think krt united states post office as a first major right of defense, now local officials tell us. if it has anything to make use or looks suspicious, make phone calls. >> nation qally the post office handles 535 million pieces of mail per day. and yes, they do have occasional scares like the one on may 9th. dust from a fan belt noticed as white powder closed facility and brought out the hazmat team autos 99% of the time it's all, you know people mailing recipes. it's

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at mail screening facilities. made us wonder how much mail gets screened? >> a person could argue oakland city halllace. but after yesterday's poison ricin letters to michael bloomberg, mall mail to public officials has come under scrutiny. >> there are people who i argue do thing that's may be irrational and wrong. >> the security is a large issue that the city won't let it near it's room. san jose admitted it does use scanning machines here in oakland... >> i can't talk about the security plan. >> this is as close as we can get to the oakland sort prog ses, one room from which separate departments pick up mail by hand. think krt united states post office as a first major right of defense, now local officials tell us. if it has anything to make use or looks suspicious, make phone calls. >> nation qally the post office handles 535 million pieces of mail per day. and yes, they do have occasional scares like the one on may 9th. dust from a fan belt noticed as white powder closed facility and brought out the hazmat team autos 99% of the time it's all, you know people mailing recipes. it's harmless, ma

used flash bangs and pepper spray as protesters threw objects at them. more than a dozen people were taken into custody. hundreds of demonstrators marched to city hall as part of their plea for congress to pass the reform bill. in san jose, mayday was kicked off in east san jose. immigrants gave testimonials of emotional stories of being separated from their loved ones. >> i'm awfully hurt. at the same time, i know that i need to build people's spirit up. that's my job, that's what i'm -- kind of why i'm in this for. >> he sponsors giving undocumented workers a pathway to citizenship. >>> what a polo coach did with a young girl. >>> the u.s. justice department taking a stand and the move it's making after the fda allows 15-year-old girls to buy the morning after pill. >>> a bay area university is getting ahead of the problem. the health epidemic these students are training to fight. >>> was it a prank? police are trying to find out who left a suspicious package and a note at a south bay office building this morning. an employee on park moore drive in san jose noticed the odd package. the area was evacuated as a precaution, the bomb squad inspected t

us now from santa clara with reaction. cornell zm. >> you've got to believe the biggest sporting event is coming here and fans say let the super bowl party begin. fans and officials gathered at city hall. it was the best news. ever. >> as soon as i digest this to get out of the experience to be here. i tell you what. we're going get to work on making sure this is going to be an experience that is unbelievable. >> across town block parties celebrated a big win for the bay area in 2016. >> this awesome. boy have never thought in my lifetime to experience this to get, i grew up in this area. it's awesome to have it alt my backyard. >> levis stadium will be complete next year playing host to the first super bowl since 1985. what stanford stadium hosted players at 49ers practice admit it's a huge course. >> fans will need a place. hyatt reek yeensy -- regency on this side and here we've got the hilton. thousands of rooms the super bowl will generate millions of dollars for the local economy. >> people need a right rid and hotel. people need to go eat. and to take a look at san francisco. >> back live, officials say despite $1.2 billion price tag it's been a pretty good he return on investm

city hall support. i know your participating in the mayors task force and really their key charge to help us figure how to close the gaps. yet another possible funding sources - as i said at the beginning we have big holes that we need to fill. we need as a city to think how to do that. i think there's some good initial steps in this first year. we're not yet to close those gaps but there's some wheels moving in that direction. so that's the money coming in on the how we use it does. i'll talk in the next slide about some of the operational things we're doing in muni. i think one of the reasons that the mta hired me was to bring some management leadership in terms of being able to dive down costs and reduce the ranks of the manages that we higher. there are a number of capital improvements we're putting in place in terms of upgrading the rails and we are trying to slow down the train system so there's a lot of - some of those deferred investments will have some operable benefits. on both sides there's movement to achieve those improvements. there are many policy improvements largely in the mta directors but their influenced by the folks who sit in this room and it's how w