colleagues, let's move, hold on to item 23 so that we can circulate the amendments being provided to us by the city attorney. let's move to item 24. madam clerk, please read item 24. >> item number 24. motion appointing supervisor eric mar, term ending november 28, 2012, to the california state association of counties. supervisor chiu: without objection, he shall be reduced. can we take a roll call vote? >> [roll-call vote] there are 10 ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion is approved. item number 25? >> item number 25. motion approving the mayor's appointment of richard hillis to the board of appeals, for the term ending july 1, 2012. supervisor chiu: roll-call vote, please. >> [roll-call vote] there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion is approved. item number 26? >> item number 26. motion appointing supervisor carmen chu, term ending june 30, 2013, to the association of bay area governments executive board. supervisor chiu: without objection, she shall be excused. roll-call vote? >> [roll-call vote] there are ten ayes. supervisor chiu: the motion is approved. let's skip over the 3:00 p.m. speci

lawfulness and we want a resolution to this problem. >> the union's claim the pension costs forecasts used by the city during negotiations is part of a larger effort by the city to overstate the severity of the pension problem in order to win greater concessions from workers. >>> 4 women are behind bars accused of shoplifting and firing a gun in a contra costa county mall. police were called to the parking lot outside the j this penny store outside sun valley mall around 5:45 last night. they say store security caught the women shoplifting and tried to detain them but they fought back, assaulting two security guards and firic a gun. no one was hurt by the gunfire. concord police say two women ran away, two others got into a car but they were all caught and arrested. >>> it is no secret that california schools are struggling but oakland students are having a particularly hard time. we talked so much about the crime in oakland so it is no wonder that educators there have unique challenges, however they gathered to talk about their experiences, their challenges and successes, and students talked about wh

i'm going to meet you in places where you have helped us celebrate the city by the bay, so follow mememory lane. >> ♪ going home to my city by the bay ♪ >> toni, you have been an integral part of my life, and i get emotional because it was a wonderfully happy time. so i want to thank you. >> hello. you are at the home of the little cable cars that climb halfway to the stars. you know that line, don't you? you remember when we had the celebration to bring back the cable cars in union square and all over town, and you were there. and here is our pal, a bell ringer of the cable cars for 10 years, and he was there on that day, so what happened? >> i had the honor and privilege of meeting mr. bennett. he wrote on my car with me, and we've run down the high-speed hill with the turnarounds, and he sang a few lines of "i left my heart." >> that song? >> yes, and i just wanted to tell him thank-you for all he has done for this city. >> tony bennett, a household word in san francisco, and for me, all the years i have lived in this city, tony bennett has been like the next door neighbor. wherev

it was languages suggested to us by the drafting city attorneys. and the intent of this ordinance, i'm sorry, of this charter amendment is not to fully halt and kill legislation being conproposed. if we proposed a charter amendment that would give someone the ultimate authority to kill legislation, we would have just done that. we took a more moderated is that -- step, and this language adddresses --- i don't want to expand to much. -- expound too much. i don't think the small business commission we adequateighed -- adequately weighed alternatives, so i will sue to a halt. it was not our intention to create a mechanism like that. this is about public process, not about killing legislation. >> will this mean that if they don't comply in terms of just bringing it to the small business commission, in this charter, there will be no problems? i am wondering what will make it so that they can't just -- >> as with any board rule or law that governs process for the board of supervisors, what happens if they don't do it? i would refer that question to the ci

counterfeiting trade agreements and disagreements which would make it so that serviced by the same city responsible if they used was pirating cities have to find these activists in the streets with no mo monitoring all of the kids there not me i mean very nice anonymous. here and none of this is very often where they've got banners weeding to shut down instead they're saying no actor culture is made of these and stop internet censorship and one of the main objections to the at truth remit is that if we negotiate the message entirely in secret say much to the main mickey you negotiate resign didn't originally say that the document was secretive

i am going to tell my old friends there that the golden keys presented to us by the representative at city hall 27 years ago symbolized the opening of local exchanges and cooperation between our two countries. and today there are already 38 sister province state relationships and 176 pairs of sister cities between our two countries. 47 out of the 50 american states have seen their exports to china grow several or even dozens of times over the past ten years. this shows that once opened the door to local exchanges and cooperation between china and the united states cannot be closed by any force. on the contrary it will only open wider and wider. ladies and gentlemen, as the chinese saying goes, when you drink water don't forget those who doubt the well. we'll always cherish the memories of the elder generations of chinese and american leaders who with extraordinary strategy vision and political wisdoms opened the door of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. 40 years ago president nixon paid a historic visit to china. his hand shake across the pacific with chairman mao t mao

with the city attorney, mothers against drunk driving, trying to shutown the places that are a public nuisance. on this particular block, it is permitted as a restaurant by the city. the conditional use authorizes them to have a piano bar for diners. but thereis a dance floor. a dance floor? there is nothing here that says they can dance. the result is that is on level. who and i live one block over and can't walk down that street in order to get home from the movies before midnight. people are moving out of the building where he has been the resident manager. the reason he is not here is that while he was waiting for you on the other agencies to take action, he had a heart attack and several small strokes. across the street is the senior housing with 72 units of elders the wake up in the middle of the night to the sound and they can never get back to sleep. people with heart conditions and horrible pain. fferdy understands how mu the [chime] >> thank you very much. >> i heard your comments about the possibility of entertainment and residential coexisting simultaneously. it is not possible. i know you are young, naive, optimistic and hopeful. good for you, but good luck. i am glad yo

by the end of the year. they told us that if the city is interested, we have got to start, they have to be able to broadcast by august. we went into that speed mode, that final two-minute drill to make sure we're able to get this thing started right away. we are excited here. this media center is all about that land. -- blend. we can distinguish here and what would have happened if it was the los angeles region and we're happy they chose here because this is our future. i believe it is the future of sports content delivery throughout the west coast and the world. we're glad to make sure they're not only west coast distribution, we think with your media center, it will be worldwide distribution. that is where we want to be. we want to make sure the media center has a worldwide ability and to match up the talent we have here. thank you. i am so happy to start drilling holes and building new walls. congratulations to all of us working together. larry as well and to all the athletes here. i may be the shortest guy here but i move pretty fast, too. thank you. [applause] >> larry scott came to the pac 12 with a pl

coming up, civil-rights community activists are demanding action from the anne arundel city council because of the words used at a meeting byne member of the city council. that is coming up new at 6:00. >> they are learning proper manners from a baltimore at its school. >> more than 20 students will graduate mark from edit it school -- will graduate from edit it -- a ticket -- etiquette school in baltimore. >> the students are learning how to carry themselves as part of the course to teach young people proper etiquette. >> the first thing people see is your parents, the way you are dressed. the second thing is the way you want. third is what comes out of your mouth. >> the students in the saturday class learn all about how to carry themselves confidently, speak properly, and use manners at the dinner table. they even learn the basics. >> we made our own outfits. how to have manners. >> etiquette is always growing and changing with the culture. she now has to teach in the entire course on cell phone at it. >> if you are going into a place of business, put it on vibrate or turn it off. if you are in public, do not use speaker

use. the city of gronig and the city of shola. over 50 october of of all trips daily made by bike. and for regional use of the bicycle. got some figures compared to a car. then you can see that schoolchildren use the bicycle very frequently for education. and still businessmen use the car a lot. and social recreational reasons. a reason for using the bike and shopping. we like to go shopping on our bikes. come to that later. and when it comes to gender. who's using the bicycle. i'm told that the netherlands is very typical on this. we have more women on bikes then -- than men. and the most intense users are girls from the age of 12 to 18 and that's easy to explain because i once was a girl of that age and to me, mabika was my ticket to freedom. i didn't want my mom and dad bringing me by car somewhere and then say well, i'll pick you up at 6:00. i go on my bike and i'll try to make it at 6:00. most of the time i was there. 6:30. and then later you can see at all ages, women still use the bicycle more than then -- men, in their 30's to 50's. and how far do they go? still, the girls a

million from the $1.4 billion that could be used for policy discounts, which allows the city to achieve either policy goals or to encourage land use characteristics that the city feels are desirable by allowing for a fee waiver or reduction in terms of this program. what is the considered to date in our discussions has been a potential discount for projects which billed less than the allowable maximum parking. we have sums of districts that provide parking maximums. potential fee waivers for businesses that the use vacant space up to 5000 square feet. and a potential waiver of 100% for affordable housing. we have heard some other ideas as we have been speaking with supervisors and other policymakers. these have been the three that there's been the most consensus around, but we're still in the process of understanding which of the policy -- what the policy programs look like and how they would be applied. i talked already about financial feasibility. going into of limitation, the program itself would mirror the city's normal capital planning process. we are proposing we have a committee comprised of the mta, transportation authority, and the planning department. this would allow us t

the city. >> do you get called out in the middle of the night? how often? >> not so often thus far. >> 16 of the vehicles are used by employees who live in the city. most are driven back and forth to suburban locations, including five to hartford county and one to westminster. and the inspector general lives all the way down in charles county. everyone else gets their gasoline paid for by the taxpayer. at $3.65 a gallon, we estimate a weekly cost of $854 just to cover the cost of fuel for commuting. housing experts say that is enough to pay for housing vouchers for for low-income families of every month. >> is there any policy that suggests to an employee who has this benefit "if you are going to live x amount of miles away and you have a long commute, you may have to pay for that"? >> we do not have a policy i am aware of. >> executive director anthony scott said there is no accounting for need. how many times an employee uses a take-from vehicle to respond to an emergency. the inspector general had a hard time remembering the last time she was called in. when was the last time? >> what is this, february? gosh. it

since it is located on mission street, in a heavily divorce neighborhood, maybe the city might get even more use of that space by using it for public service announcements that would benefit the different groups living in that area. it could be used to advertise different programs the city is trying to help people with and can also be used for sfpd, or whenever they would need the space for, and i think it would enable a lot of nonprofit organizations to put up information there without going in paying for such space, so maybe if this space is not that a lucrative, since the top bidder did not really want it again, then maybe it might be more useful and more beneficial to the different communities along mission street to use some for our public service announcements and in this way, in a certain sense, it would not cost the city that much to advertise what it deems necessary to advertise, and it would also give the non-profit organizations a chance to say something to help the community along mission street. thank you. chair chu: thank you. next speaker. >> ♪ would you not fix it, budget, fix it night and day pr

finally, we are proposing to implement a new fet model for the recreational programming, one that is used by a number of cities across the country. it would be a model involving cost recovery for the cost of the programs we are offering. right now, we have programs to recover as little as 10% of what it costs to actually put on the program. while we do not think for a majority of our programs we would ever be close to 100% cost recovery, we think even if we could be in the neighborhood of 30% to 40% cost recovery, that would go some way to generating extra revenue for the department. we do feel strongly, however, that the cost of our programming should never be a barrier to participating in that programming. we would anticipate as the cost for programs go, so what our scholarship program. i just want to note that last fiscal year, we gave away $0.5 million in scholarships. year to date, we have given away well over $400,000. by the end of this fiscal year, we expect to be well over $500,000 in scholarships given. i would like to remind you that for any fee proposals, staff will be back in front of the commissi

the mass. as we first reported last night council leaders gathering at a press conference this morning to ask for an explanation behind a five-year pension projection used by mayor chuck reed. the city council showing off a memo that nbc bay area first received yesterday which says, quote, we have not yet heard a detailed explanation of how the $650 million estimate was actually estimated. our investigative unit first reported two weeks ago that the mayor used an inflated number as a worst case secenario to help sell fis quecal emergency a num higher than the official projection. >>> a rare sight in the bay area. republican presidential candidate coming for a visit. but this weekend newt gingrich will be making that appearance, former speaker of the house giving the keynote speech during lunch tomorrow at california republican convention in burlingame. it will have serious bucking up to do. republican registration down to all-time low, barely above 30%. governor brown dismissed the republican party as politically irrelevant even after spending most of 2010 trying to win them over. >>> today, though, it's all about his democratic counterpart. governor brown with other democratic gove