talk to us before you do stuff. we got a little bit involved, i think, in consulting on the bike track. they left us out, but we were able to look at it and go, okay, that seems ok. but they should let us get involved early. i would like to see committee members go out more and deal with problems on the streets. those two things would be very good. so, that's it. any questions, i can answer. supervisor kim: thank you. thank you or your service. i know you knapsack on this committee since its inception -- i know you have sat on this committee since its inception. >> i gave you my letter for support for that project. supervisor kim: i did get that letter. thank you for your work. next we have robin brasso. >> thank you. i have served on the committee from october 2010 until february of this year. so, i am replying to the committee for seat number seven. i think i am qualified to do that. i worked in the san francisco high school district for 37 years. with respect to something this gentleman was concerned about, i neve

. >> so how do you today prevent these very big institutions from using shareholders money and depositors money, and in a proprietary way? how do you prevent that? >> very carefully. you work very hard. it's a matter of risk management systems, are they aware of all the risks they're taking and senior management and the board of directors aware of it? are they running their liquidity book, liquidity management sound? do they have enough capital on hand? isn't enough that they would survive reasonably possible but very adverse outcome in financial markets and for the economy? you check all those things. if they have enough capital buffer enough liquidity buffer so they're playing with their own money at all times. >> if i could come back to these big thanks again, you were moments ago very encouraging about what you're seeing financially. i just wonder, do you see these big banks that are still somewhat troubled lending aggressively, where they're supposed to be? if you talk to them, look at their balance sheets, look at what they're doing, they are competing aggressively for every credit

stop letting us do that. stop letting us do that. as a matter of fact, i want you to have your social justice committee or whatever you have in the church. i want you to know my voting record when i get there. and i want you to go down that list and you say, well, now you voted, you know, this way on this. you voted for payday loans. they take 400% interest from our people in our community. why did you vote for them? and then they going to start stuttering. okay. because they don't know that you know you took money from them. you took the big contributions. but you undermined -- so young people know when you are truthful and when you stand for something and when you love them or not. they really know this. and so when we come and you allow us to have that platform talking stuff and they sitting in the church, they ain't paying no attention to what we're saying. and so the church has a responsibility to understand why you are letting somebody speak. and i want to tell you. the democratic party says to us, take me to your church, and h

up to 20 years, so we're working with their team to say here would be some useful changes if the state government wants to do something in public finance, it would be to link in those terms to more of a matching useful life. we will go out as long as we can. we are typically issuing fixed- year debt so that we can refinance them to a degree that would offer savings in a future year. we have taken the opportunity to do that whenever it would save rateyers money. but this is not just something we state. every utility in the country has this same issue. supervisor avalos: i know we have to build the source system and keep that moving, but do we see any real savings if we demand a strong recycling program? is that going to help to alleviate some of these costs? >> we are considering that in our low impact development, whether for rain water retention are swells, it helps us for temporary diversions so that much doesn't go down the pipe into the treatment plant and perhaps additional harvesting. we are doing that and that is part of what is before you today. if i may touch on that, with this question as well as t

i think it's simple math and we can do it without having to have the middle class push us into doing the right thing. >> senator sunshine, give us the upbeat -- >> you mentioned that governor romney was giving a speech that i didn't realize on tax reform, but at the risk of being partisan here, i love the fact that he's talking about pro-growth tax reform. not tax cuts by the way, pro-growth tax reform that will generate more revenue. and he's talking about the political sensitive issue of retitlement form. i think folks are going to hear two different approaches and i think most people are going to say we have to address these issues. we can't continue to allow congress to kick the can down the road it avoid the problems and i think they're directly related to the economy. and that's one reason i'm optimistic. i think they are related to the economy and if more of us make that connection including in the media, more people will be interested. if we don't solve the problem at year end, a recession will hurt every middle income family in america. so we have to deal with the issue. >> 4

no matter what i am doing, how hard i am working, there are always people who can help us. whether it is on a police commission, a veteran affairs, all the numerous departments, we can always do better. that is what i will be asking you to help us do. we have 24 appointment today. they span 16 appointed bodies. 12 of them are reappointment, and 12 of them are new appointments. i want to mention a few because they are exciting. they will end up with a lot of hours of your time. it is not to say that every commission here today is as important as the other. they are extremely important to the citizenry of our city. allen, you will help us. a lot of hours doing that. there are a lot of people looking forward to open space and improvements in their communities. he will be spending a lot of hours doing that. suzy and thomas, a police commission. public safety, it is selling pour into our city. it is -- it is so important to our city. we want a safe city. thank you for stepping up. malcolm, taxis. when is my taxi going to be here? you have already spent hours and dino you will con

we do not want to do layoffs, but as you will see, where we are fiscally gives us very, very few options. this is a meeting that every year, i guess myself, for at least 17 years, have had to go through, because it seems that every year, we do not seem to be adequate funding that comes our way. i do want the public to know that we are involved in two major lawsuits against the state of california in trying to resolve these types of issues, and san francisco unified is one of the leaders in both of these lawsuits. one has to do with restoring prop 98 full funding, the $2.20 billion that were taken away last summer from school districts in california. the impact would be about $20 million additional but we would get. the other is about adequately funding how much it takes to educate a child in california. we all know that we are now ranked around 48th and 49th about how much we spend per child, and we are rapidly going down. the last two years or the next two years where we are going financially, this district would have lost approximately 22% of its entire budget, and yet, we are growing,

colleagues, we do have the items before us. can we entertain a motion to continue these items? we have a motion and we will do that without objection. thank you. do we have any other items before us? >> there are no other items on the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. welcome to all the visitors and congratulations to the residence. we are going to get started in a moment. i would like to acknowledge a few people. while we are waiting, the mayor is coming in just a minute. there are a number of people that we did like you to know who they are. for one thing, reverend brown in the front. can we get a round of applause for the president of the commission? we have thjoyce armstrong. right now, i will ask for a round of applause for the housing authorities executive director. >> good morning, everyone. for those of you who do not know me, and henry. when i am running around in our communities, most folks -- i am so excited that you are here today. we have been working on this center for some time. today, we get to give it back to the residents in this community. t

. >> i used to do farce. i used to do clown work. i got my new york state to break in a show where i played oscar wilde, who was a great wit. i played a bumbling husband on broadway, that sort of thing, the guys you would never be afraid of, and now all of a sudden, on and the sinister, fearful guy. i do not get it. i think it is kind of funny, really. i have to say that sometimes i feel that i am still doing comedy, it is just that i am the only one who knows it. tavis: that is one way of putting it. speaking of broadway and you worked there, is there anything better than it eugene o'neill? >> i do not think so. i can tell you that i will be thrilled to the end of my days that my debut on broadway was an "the iceman cometh," and it is a huge production, and preparations were so distracting that i think it was in our third performance before it dawned on me that my dream had come true, and they would go out before the show and be on the table top, and i was there one night thinking that this is a broadway stage and that that was a br

doing their job. the money is not supposed to be used for a general fund the issue. again, that is another department, other than me. the second thing is that we do, you know, remain at a vigil on -- in terms of making sure that something is being done on these cases. that is being ramped up. i had to miss a couple of meetings. not only is the pressure on to start certain cases, but it is to resolve and pushe. in many cases, these people are bankrupt. they do not have anything. there are all sorts of reasons that their property -- it is not being handled early on in the process. i think there is always an amount that you put out to take care of these, and never get anything back. commissioner walker, you have been on the litigation committee. i think we are putting more pressure to have things resolved. >> on the number of cases, many of these have multiple property units. you have a situation where there is a landlord that has continuous problems in all their different properties. what we do is take the time to package them. there are a couple of instances where they

do you think this leads to a de stigmatization of addiction or wider drug use? i do not think it encourages people to use drugs. i think there have been some people that have made a positive -- right in the middle of my answer? >> i think there are certain celebrities who have made a positive message about drug use which has not helped the situation at all. i think most people who get better from drug addiction are a positive influence. they make it look glamorous. they make it look good. if they stop using, it then they become a very positive role model. people have been influenced by that. >> thank you. i think your absence based work is very effective. i was struck by your comments about the problems of fighting drug use. do you think we do enough? and do you think there are risks that could harm reduction based education? >> i think we're not doing anything enough to give an honest answer to the problems of drugs. there is more about educating people of drugs. and do nothing we address it and take it on board probably enough. -- i do not think we address it

they do not respect us, they do not consider us.talk about language, we should be language user- friendly, but there are people in this town -- is there any translations for those people who happen to be of african origin? nope. we need to go back to the drawing board and make sure that all means all in this city. in miami, florida, people do not have to pay to park around churches. in atlanta, georgia, they do not have to pay to park around churches. even in new york city, with 12 million people, they are so user-friendly that they will give faith leaders permission to place placards on their automobiles. this city is increasingly proven that it is mean-spirited, unkind, and not inclusive of people who -- for people of faith. this is not just a christian and thing. the muslims are with us, the jews are with us. they are saying the same thing. you do not care about this. >> thank you, reverend brown. next speaker, please. >> i am a native san franciscan. our sunday meters have been something i have been proud of. i could say to peop

is certainly a positive factor. >> i can't hear you stay but it is a consequence of -- words you used. do you think that the -- why is it, do you think, given some of the warm words of the imf that people feel so differently about the value for sovereign ratings? what's the explanation for that? >> sunot sure i understand the question. >> we've had some imf testimony suggesting that there has been a ratings to perform -- during the crisis. okay? european commission has been very critical of ratings in the crisis. a very wide rachk views. why do these institutions -- you guys have disagreed with each other. why don't they disagree? why is there such a difference about sovereign ratings? >> that's really a very difficult question for me at a ratings agent to answer. it's a question that needs to be put to those who hold those views. >> am i to understand that the standard & poor's and your risk assessment, the methodology could, you just take us through the basis on which you give the united kingdom a 3, which puts us in the same category as canada, germany, japan and the u.s.?

doing it? for the rest of us who haven't given this thought but think we should be involved and how should we be involved and what should we do, it is a perilous journey and has the appearance of mt. everest on how to get started. having worked in veterans groups and started a very small nonprofit to bring attention to these issues in reaching out to veterans, one of the things that i discovered in looking at the long history of american veterans is one of the constants from george washington to today is if you look at the needs of the veterans, things really haven't changed. the technology has changed, the society has changed, but the basic requirements of what a nation can do for its veterans are the same. there are really three. the first one i think is the most obvious and the one we think about most, that readily comes to mind, the helping and healing for people coming back from war, people from the service, and not just the service member but for their families as well. and i think that's well understood and there's obviously a mode of compassion to do something about that. a second catego

that is usually adequate for us to know who has reviewed this. and again, i do want to say that we got a kind of impressive number of representatives from schools. i will tell you that if this continues to happen, perhaps ms . casco will let us know. i wanted knowledge people who come to the meetings. people are giving us the analysis of the status of the budget. this is a real opportunity to listen to people who are in on the no, in -- the know. we do have the series 1000 of the -- of our own policies which are linked the and complex. we will at the next meeting of rules committee -- we asked the staff to go over them. there are a lot of policies there that look kind of generic toomey. to -- mto me. there are a lot of policies that are recommended and we should just from reading them. the thing about media policies, about what we do in the event of emergency. we just happen to have the policy. the proposed language come straight out of the csba. it is not quite specific enough to the practice and culture of san francisco. i am asking the staff to review all of

generators and these are critical because it basically allows us to create a $150 million revenue stream we would not otherwise be able to do that allows us to provide what is very low-cost power to city facilities and a hospital. thank you for that. the other investments are streetlights toward the top of the page. we are investing more than we have in decades. thanks to you and the mayor's office and policy-makers, we have been able to implement a twopenny ratings increase that allows us for the first time to do power revenue bonds for fiscal year 13-14. i want to go through to brief slides and also through page 35 -- supervisor chu: items 6 and item eight, the appropriation is about $141 million and the remainder is a much larger one. can you explain that? >> the remainder is water- related bonds. in addition to that, we were able to apply to the state and have been successful in getting loans funding which is low-cost funding, cheaper than revenue bonds. we have some cash from the system which allows us to fund a portion as well. the lowest cost is what we are always trying to prioritize. supervisor chu: back to waste w

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with so many other countries are doing what we used to do right here. whether it's outsourcing or whether certain countries making our products, we just don't really make what we used to make anymore. >> greta: when the economy is sluggish, is there anything different? i know you endorsed governor romney but can he make a profoundly different strategy in your opinion with a president mitt romney? >> i think absolutely. one thing he understands what china is doing for us. i watched what his stance was on china. it took place during one of the debates, he is very, very strong on not allowing china to get away with what they are doing. manipulation of currency, making it impossible for us to do business with them, but the reverse like easy we're a bunch of patsies. i know his stance on oh beck is very strong, i know his stances on drilling and taking the energy we have under our feet. that would make a huge difference for this country. >> greta: you mentioned china, you would have handled the issue i guess an ongoing issue, blind chinese dissident. >> look,

of the anastazi were beautiful, wise, balanced with the earth people and it's like, no, they were us, doing their neolithic stone age thing but still us, human beings living in a place, chopping each other into little pieces sometimes and living lives of prosperity at other times. >> we have time for one more question. >> was the global warming when they were (inaudible) greenland and a cathedral there and i believe the maya moved from the lowlands to the highlands and the anastazi came down to the salt river. >> yeah, a lot of the movement was based on climate. the anastazi were always moving. the whole thing about the disappearing anastazi, you go to where they are living and they disappear all of a sudden. but you follow them and find, oh, 10 years later they are over here and 70 years later they are over here. they are often being driven by these climate changes which on the colorado plateau, very small changes make you go. if you lose one inch of precipitation in one year, you got to get up to the mesas where there's a little more rain and then when the frost comes in too early, you go

committee the other week, at the moment, 0.6% of the population use heroin and crack and it's a declining proportion. that means 98.94% do not. we know only a few percent use cannabis. 2% use cocaine. the idea that you would risk increasing use and therefore increasing the demand that would then impact on countries abroad to which we also have a moral responsibility i find extraordinary, that you would be at this point of still fairly low usage but disproportionately damaging usage, that you would i thinking of putting the white flag up to use and risk it ricing to levels of something like smoking. i find this a very sort of strange way to think all. certainly i think with education for children on cannabis, i think the most important thing now is that we should be focusing on the domestic stunk market which is in our power to deal with. we have blithely stopped protecting children. we know stunk now causes psychosis. we don't know what's happening in gangs in south london and what role psychosis is playing there. this is something i think should be the pressing concern of the committee. this is something we can deal wit

i thought it would make sense for us to do it. playing the character he plays, it will allow us to get the points out. whether or not it made sense, i did it, i had a good time. i knew he was popular and people watch the show, and i've been on everything the last few weeks. the response from that of parents and has just been unbelievable. i raise that to ask what is it about our culture and our society that makes that kind of satire works so well? >> whee are so rife with hypocrisy, it is all around us. it is everywhere, it is not just even in the political forum, it is in the media coverage, the news coverage of politics. it is so abundantly hypocritical at times, and i think that just from my experience on the daily show, that is what we always look for. it was never an ideological and go, how do we secure the right wing or whatever. it was always who is being hypocritical here? that is the very foundation of the colbert report. a character that is so ridiculously hypocritical and self involved, i think it is a release valve for

we have a huge water program, a huge sewer program, we can do anything people tell us to do. we can move mountains, burrow under them, do anything that needs to be done. but we don't have expertise figuring out whether kayaks for sailboats are the best use of the lake. i would love to have us not get into that business. on the other hand, if our land is lying fallow and is not being managed properly, we have no choice but to step in and do something. my messages use it or lose it -- my message is use it or lose it and she was quickly what you can do. >> i appreciate those comments and some of the thinking i was doing to the comments section from both rec & park and the public comment is i would think it would be helpful to get much more specific long-term recreational management plans and budget that could be presented to this commission. also some specifics of around how financial resources are going to be secured for recreational activities, how does concession contracts would be developed and secured s rec & park wants to take them on. what are the recreational uses of the

the mother reported the information to police who of us do it -- eventually arrested them last november. child psychologist said she lacked the emotional development to know better. this is white adolescents cannot make decisions for themselves without the parents' approval and consent. >> that is why officials say it is so important for parents to keep an open dialogue with their children. to go when they do run away, the risk of becoming involved in a sexually-explicit relationships raises dramatically. to go the couple was indicted in baltimore county in january. the couple is scheduled to go to trial next month. in the newsroom, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the boys who admitted to killing and hiding their friend's body is sentenced in court. date accidently shot the 13- year-old in march. the 13-year-old will be placed in a treatment facility. the call-year-old body -- the 12-year-old boy who helped drive the body will be sent to a juvenile house. >> both sentences are an indefinite amount of time, with a maximum of three years. officerpolice faces charges for lying to get a warrant to raid

do it. it's not in us and you can't force us to do it. the federal government is overstepping their bounds when they try to force us to do this, okay? and so what's going to happen, go to this one again. see these gray states here? what's going to happen is those gray states, upper south states, the last four that will join the confederacy, arkansas, tennessee, north carolina, and virginia. they leave in response to that call for 75,000. they do not leave because of lincoln specifically. okay? virginia met and voted, okay? virginia leaders voted on whether or not they wanted to secede earlier in the secession crisis and they said, no, we stay. after lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers, they vote to leave. that's why the upper south goes. we are not march on fellow southerners. we will not forcibly keep fellow southerners in the union. we weren't going to leave because of the election. we were going to stay and try and work within the democratic process but you cannot force virginians to invade and march on south carolinians. as much as nor

do too much and it has been counter productive. what you need is -- before i got into government i used to do a lot of work for major corporations and capital investment projects. what we used to do is we would get the product managers and they would give a forecast of the new product and finance people would estimate the average expected return. as a result of that we quickly threw out all potential projects which didn't earn the rate of return of a corporation. but that then moved you to step two which is the big determinant which is what is the variance, the spread of range over expected outlookz. for example, if you are expecting an average rate of return of 20% but it varies between minus ten and plus 50 that project was invarably shallowed. the reason we are getting this in long term investment is if you look at the cash flow of american corporations and the proportion they choose to invest in long term iliquid assets that ratio is at the lowest level since 1935. >> is that investment going abroad? is the issue here with the studies from crisis we are dealing with not only globalism but a reaffirmation of investment pushed abr

many of us do as well. is that okay, mr. chairman? >> very briefly to echo this point, you've made excellent points of overregulation in the ses, the chief of the forest service, the chief forester said that voluntary and some cases manner to are doing the job. i would be happy to provide the committee with na information. >> without objection. >> i'd be asked that be added to the record. >> absolutely. i think the real issue here is national alliance of forest owners estimates the costs could be almost $6 billion if this was a regulatory action that came down from epa. we know it's not necessarily epa's fault, courts are overzealous, et cetera, but $6 billion spending on improving forest habitat for wildlife, improving it for people, for water quality, there's much better use of money than on this regulation. thank you. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. one final question, actually, for all of the panelists who would like to weigh in on, the purpose of regulation, and the impact of overregulation, i guess is what my question