economists to be able to answer the hard questions -- is there any adverse impact that we depend on from our general fund or revenue stream that would certainly belie the very reason for us to be able to do this? based on the report that we have received by the controller, there appears to be nothing with regard into the adverse impact compared to, in contrast, to the benefits of making sure that she is companies stay here. i personally have been in contact with a number of companies that this would qualify for. these companies were watching certainly with great interest of what the potential outcome would be with a twitter tax deliberations and the tax break, and safe to say that it is certainly, i think, a given that they would have liked to see the exact same kind of benefit or something similar to enhance their interest in staying and what sometimes is seen as a challenging city in order to start and sustain business in. so we believe that there needs to be more sweeping reform across the way. but to get to that place we see this as an incremental step that helps us guide that path and that enables the city's analytical machinery to understand what those true impacts

coming here as far as the recognition of people living here in san francisco being able to share the economic wealth. for us to be only restricted to the construction work, i think we would be doing ourselves a disservice not being able to look at the tax areas have dealing with the local areas, that is a part of san francisco, as well as tourism. there is a lot to be gained from this piece of legislation. i speak in support of its. thank you. >> a good afternoon, supervisors. i am a senior job developer with andrews and andrews. my background includes high-tech recruiting for silicon valley. i have worked with many young men and women of love and opportunity to get high tech jobs, and even if it is office support staff, customer service, that man. they don't have the means to get to silicon valley and they don't want to go in the construction field and social networking, technology is right up their alley. they're always asking me, how do i get to these jobs? we need the jobs to be local, and we needed the disadvantaged young men and women in this valley to get access and trained for the positions that wil

what is important to us is that we have something that is able to be accountable and discreet. since the city treasurer and controller have never been faced with the question of either a limited stock exemption, the supervisors suggested there be a permanent home at large sleeping stock-option for those that are public. we believe these pieces of legislation are immensely different due to the simple fact that ours is stipulated by a six-year time line. it does not go into eternity or perpetuity. the definition in the universe of those companies that will be affected are minimal at best. it is important that we have the ability to gauge what that impact is based on the information provided to us and through the treasurer's office for their ability to be able to count what that impact looks like. through ongoing discussions with the treasurer and the mayor's office, we feel that this is the right approach in beginning to explore the possibilities of more sweeping change. but before we understand what that sweeping change looks like, we should start with a more effective and hones

. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty simple. you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes, there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized tha we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time yo

that does not bode well for us being able to go back and capture some of that. i think it is too early to tell. this legislation tends to take a cycle or two to follow through the state process. i imagine it will take two years to figure out. we have built in that some -- built in that scenario, where we can go back and get an increment. but we have also provided in our housing plan the ability to buy back affordable housing novels. if, for instance, a citywide bond was passed, that would give us additional housing. there are lots of things available that we could buy back to get us back to that 30%. there are two ways we built into the development to allow us to capture back some of the affordable housing. supervisor cohen: this goes back to the state legislation. to me, building off what supervisor mar is trying to narrow down -- is there a metric that is used? huddling quantify whether or not state legislation is successful? of what point will we know we are moving in the right direction? >> ultimately, we will know when legislation is passed that will enable

i thought it was important, though, for us to be able to say that we'd definitely got the guy. it was important for us to be able to exploit potential information that was on the ground in the compound, if it did turn out to be him. we thought that it was important for us not only to protect the lives of our guys, but also to try to minimize collateral damage in the region, because this was in a residential neighborhood. i mean, one of the ironies of this is, you know, i think the... the image that bin laden had tried to promote was that he was an ascetic living in a cave. this guy was living in a million-dollar compound in a residential neighborhood. >> kroft: were you surprised when they came to you with this compound right in the middle of sort of the military center of pakistan? >> obama: there had been discussions that this guy might be hiding in plain sight. and we knew that some al qaeda operatives, high-level targets, basically just blended into the crowd like this. i think we were surprised when we learned that this compound had been there for five or six years, and tha

based on what director martin and the police department feels, that -- we get ahead of the game by us being able to bring back some of our own who would already be ready to hit the ground running. and that, to me is where the savings is should this discussion evolve into the question of general fund and what that would mean to a general fund. i don't see any academies happening anytime soon either for the airport or for the city interior. so this is where we actually have some reservoir potential.

based on what director martin and the police department feels, that -- we get ahead of the game by us being able to bring back some of our own who would already be ready to hit the ground running. and that, to me is where the savings is should this discussion evolve into the question of general fund and what that would mean to a general fund. i don't see any academies happening anytime soon either for the airport or for the city interior. so this is where we actually have some reservoir potential. chairwoman chu: supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: thank you itch also want to reiterate my colleagues' commence about appreciating the work that you and your staff are doing at the airport, understanding it is a well-run agency. it's a pleasure to have this conversation. i think we wish that, say, the m.t.a., we could say the same for other transit-related agencies at this point. but thank you for being here. the question that i have for you is around i.t. this is a question not specific to the airport but one that i'll be asking a lot of departments about what your overall budget is for i.t. expend to

require the private sector, pharmaceutical companies and the retailers to shoulder the cost of us being able to create an infrastructure so that our san francisco citizenry would have somewhere to adequately and effectively discard medications and unused pharmaceuticals. this type of legislation has been attempted in over ten states in the united states, but due to the fourth strongest lobbyist in the united states, the pharmaceutical industry, it was very effective in combating back efforts in those state legislatures. no law like this exists in the united states. meanwhile, our own city department of environment, through our own city money, has been providing opportunity for our citizenry to dispose of pharmaceuticals. upwards of about $50,000 was spent just in the two-day project, where san franciscoans donated over 1,100 pounds of pharmaceuticals just in that two days at city expense, which is derived from rate pair expense, money that came from discretionary use to the department of environment of water are garbage rates. since i believe that there should be a practice of shared respons

be able to give birth to the s.f. park program. that's critical that has now put san francisco on the map nationally. and us being able to rise to the frofey standard of us being one of the most environmentally green conscious cities in this country and we would like to believe on this planet and at the same time alleviate and answer the large question about what are we going to do about congestion and about parking? we like very much the overtures that are being made about the -- certainly the complication, the challenge of congestion pricing. we really are very, very i think revved up by the federal government's gestures towards helping local governments like ours. we believe we have a great bookend strategy here about what we're starting on addressing congestion and congestion pricing and looking forward to the future leadership of the federal government and answering this in other cities around the country. and for us to expand our congestion pricing strategies here in san francisco. thank you very much. [applause] >> you now have the opportunity to introduce my chairman, man who served on the m.t.a. bo

. >> i think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander in chief threshold. >> as president, critics said he would rather apologize than assert america's greatness. lead from behind is how one aide described the obama doctrine to the new yorker magazine. >> uncertain world has been made more dangerous from the lack of clear direction from a weak president. >> but in the presidency, all it takes is a moment. >> i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you. >> reporter: for everything to change. for americans, this president's decision nearly a decade later to take out bin laden in a risky raid was his. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> they want their presidents to be men of peace, but they also want to know that if necessary, the american president can kill. >> reporter: for a still unsettled republican presidential field, the issues of the president's toughness and his leadership have been neutralized. >> i think americans will see him as a credible commander in chief, and so

stock option tax on the payroll, being able to help those specific companies right now -- and there are not many. there are maybe 10. but those may be right now will allow us to really be able to corral, i think, an industry that is burgeoning, but one we may have lost before because we did not tackle the problem. let me tell you. at least from this political side of the bench, it has been a long time that people in this government have confronted business tax reform. people have been talking about it for a long time. the prevailing theory and conventional wisdom is gross receipts over payroll or some hybrid thereof, but there has been no delivery on this. i think that is something that comes to unnatural ahead. before that comes to that head politically, before it is reconciled by the voters of san francisco, being able to justify our case so that it is a more foolproof case is one that i think is furthered by what we passed here today. in light of that, i have a quick technical amendment. i am told this is not substantive. page three, line 16 -- the amount of the stock exemption is that amount of stock-based compensation pre-payroll expense or the compan

i think would be clearer to us to be able to speak to building issues in one side of our mind and environmental issues on the other. but to me, personally, they seem to blur. if i am not clear, please be gentle with me. this is a question. the other thing is quite discouraging since i have been working so hard to understand and neighborhood groups. how the neighborhood process works, how the planner's work. how we keep up with the street from a citizens' standpoint. my brain has trouble keeping up with that. i went to planning a couple days ago and found that there was a letter written as if you had already made a decision on a project that is very important to us. it was written in the past tense as if you are in the hospital but already dead. it seemed like this was just a rubber stamp. i just wanted to know what that does to the heart and spirit of the citizen. i wish you would wait until you hear us. the other thing is, site visits in the file, to me, from a 24-7 president standpoint, a site visit is very light by a person in the environmental impact relman. it says there could be no signif

and twhout resource, it's a valuable resource for us to be able to direct these individuals to be able to get that kind of technicalle support that we as the city agency can't provide. and provide certain level of confidence for us knowing that these individuals, the most of them will probably seek these out. and -- and smaller resources mean less capacity for thome be able to work with these individuals. but then that ensures that our businesses have a stronger footing when they start out their business. so i just wanted to thank you for your work, what you do. >> thank you. i don't see any public comments, so -- public comment is closed. this is not an action item -- >> it's not an action item, no. it's just an information item. to provide you with a status report. and we will probably -- i mean it would be good for us to just agendize the sfeda once a year to provide updates and programming and things that they've worked on throughout the year. >> go ahead, commissioner clay? >> i would just like to give some information to the public. >> i understand your services are not just for

made repeatedly by the property owners are promises of what is behind them that can give us the comfort in being able to tell us the promises are legitimate. first, we have the city attorney's opinion. we've heard that in closed session and the land use committee repeatedly. we have followed the letter of the law with all the court cases. we have made this as tight as possible. just earlier today, president chiu presented a written opinion by a former supreme court justice that this contract, this development agreement, is legally sound. i am comfortable. i am comfortable with looking at my constituents and telling them these promises are legitimate. what is more, i want everyone to consider the reverse. we talked about what this gives to the tenants of the project. what about the risk if the project is not done? what about the pastures that are inevitable? millions of dollars have been spent on the property. not a penny of those has been passed through. even if you think there is a no- demolition alternative, i think we all agree the department's needs significant capital work. do you really think t

but these are questions that we're not going to be able to answer three or four days after the event. it's going to take some time for us to be able to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site. >> schieffer: senator john kerry is in pittsburgh this morning. senator kerry, you just heard the president. what do you think about this? how could the pakistanis not have known that bin laden was there? >> well, i think it's, excuse me, i think it's very, very hard to believe that at some level there wasn't somebody or some group as the president alluded to in pakistan that wasn't aware of this. as of now, even according to tom donlan this morning, the national security advisor to the president, there is no evidence that at the highest level the generals and the president of pakistan knew this. there's no evidence at this moment, but there are very serious questions and it is extraordinarily hard to believe that he could have survived there for five years or more in a major population center without some kind of support system and knowledge. >> schieffer: what do we do about that? i mean is it time re-evalua

private industry, we want to make sure that we get the best deal for what they are going to be able to provide us. and through the boom we will be able to negotiate and i believe really be able to provide the best services for san francisco. one of the questions you asked miss gettis while she was up here about what's next in terms of hardware that's coming up and whether or not there was any money for it. i do believe since this is a priority of president obama that there will be additional money coming down the line over the next two, three, five years. i have very good news to report. we just heard yesterday that the 2011 grant application for uwasi which we were anticipating would be between an 18% and 20% cut, that san francisco was held harmless. so we are going to be getting the 2010 grant award. so that was a huge victory for us. commissioner mirkarimi: that is great. good. we have been having some decent budget news lately. >> we also -- this isn't the last time you'll see us. we'll be coming back to the board as we look at sites for our cell towers, etc. we'll be coming to you for that

what you should have is strict sets of procedures you can use if you need to in high-value case, some cases, only the president should be able to sign off and say, you can do this. >> no matter what always. >> i love the idea that the president has to do it, he is commander in chief and also defend us ultimately, the trouble is trying to get these guys put their signature on a torture order. anyway, thank you. >> when you have khalid sheikh mohammed, you may want to consider it. he was somebody special. >> might be easier to get that order from a republican than a democratic president. just guessing but maybe, after watching this week, i'm not sure that the president obama isn't as cold-blooded as anybody. let's go on. >> khalid sheikh mohammed may have been waterboarded, i don't think that was unjust. osama bin laden was killed. i don't think that was unjust. i'm not sure you disagree with me on that. >> thanks, cliff, may, for coming on. >>> we had a poll yesterday showing more republicans say former president bush deserves is was more credit for getting bin laden than bin laden does that's republicans saying give more cre

campose, who is, unfortunately, out of town or out of the country at this moment and won't be able to join us in this meeting. we are joined also by commissioner after lose, commissioner wiener who will be joined shortly by commissioner chiu and perhaps commissioner america reamy. -- mirkarimi. item number two? >> april 19, profl of minutes. commissioner chu: thank you very much. any speaker? seeing none being public comment is closed. we have the motion to approve that item. we can do that without objection. item number three? >> citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. chu: thank you very much. >> good morning, committee members. i'm brian larkin. i'm here on behalf of the chair

be more beneficial. the problem is that it is dubious about redevelopment cost longevity. so, this is the right way for us to be able to structure the financing mechanisms now. we do not know if redevelopment has a future. >> that is exactly right. even if the bill proposed before redevelopment, the state was proposing 25% that would have gone to redevelopment. we would have wound up with, if that bill passed, with the rest -- with less revenue. supervisor mirkarimi: i know that in the press conference this morning, a great amount of appreciation to our sacramento delegation in attempting to forward with a bill that helps us in shoring up about 5% affordability. but have not heard people talking about aiming that lobbying effort on the governor to make sure that he signs the bill. >> you are exactly right, we do. supervisor mirkarimi: i have not heard anyone say that. >> there have been a lot of discussions with the governor in his office. we got ifd the got -- we got the signal that ifd is the future of redevelopment. supervisor mirkarimi: right. but to assist the senators, ultimately speaking it is governor brown

. >> so for us to be able to help in some small way.think its nice contribution. >>> they once served our country. now, they are serving time in jail. up next, a bay area jaiaiaiealig with the special needs of veteransnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsns >>> officials with the veterans administration in washington are taking a close look at a unique program here in the bay area, is to help former soldiers who are out of the service but in jail. carolyn tyler has more. >> carleton has been out of the navy for years, out of jail just a few months. >> how is life? >> great. >> he says going to jail saved his life. that is because he was an inmate here at sflanz c number five. jail number five. every inmate here is a military vet. >> when i first came in here you could feel the atmosphere. >> it's a pilot program called cover. >> we're kind of a fraternity and family. it's very powerful experience for me. >> those that once served the country are now serving time with the focus on special needs, including post-traumatic stress and zuab abuse, this ther