they have argued with us that there are a certain number of vehicles that they may still need to have for those reasons, until the economy batters and for disaster recovery of emergency. wali plan this out, one of the difficulties we have had in mandating this 20% across the board, we need to understand all the uses of these vehicles. just as we had a conversation on item 8, the two vehicles that the police is looking at, with your support, adding to their fleet for undercover use. there are a number of those vehicles that are being used for undercover and engaging with the right officers on how that is best used by different districts and apartments. we still believe we focus on the right vehicles. we think it will reduce our maintenance costs if we do so. those are some of the reasons we are going department by department to understand the exact use of these vehicles, to see if there is a need, and proposing replacing these with better emission vehicles, but as you know, we have an agreement with citicorp share. we have sharing abilities that allows our department to do this at and

all we have is a messed up retirement plan that is not going to benefit us in any way, shape or form. i hope that you have heard us and i really hope that you are listen ingand pay ingattention and want ingto change this for the better for all of us. i love what i do, but when it's time for me to go, i want to go with some dignity and know ingthat my district respected me enough to get us out of a travesty. i want my money and enough money to survive on. i want enough money that if i want to take a trip, i want to be able to do that. i might be like they are on tv, eating dog food and i'm not having that. so i'm hoping that you do change this so if we have a choice. yes, we can get social security, but let me put my money where i want my money to go so it will benefit me. so that's all i have to say. i hope you guys act on that. thank you. >> good evening, i'm anthony sing willing will ton and worked at -- anthony singleton. when i first came in, i was a transition specialist. before that -- for nine years and classroom for five years. i returned to being a transition specialist and n

have service? >> scavenger actually provides us a list, and we do go to those chickens. supervisor chu: with regard to the fact that you have now got additional resources through this grant to focus on this commercial area in parts where people are on their way in dumping commercial waste or perhaps things from construction jobs along the way to a dump site, does this mean the dpw will have resources available to address some of the other areas? in my community, we have a lot of residential, so the type we are seeing is not necessarily folks hauling off and unloading concrete per se, but folks calling off their couches and things they no longer want. i'm sure if this is happening across the city. how are you addressing the residential component of the illegal issue? >> the grant is definitely in the application phase. city-wide, we are in the process of putting out a mailer to all the residents of san francisco. and how to discard of their material. if you have garbage service, you are entitled to a certain level of pickup, so people should utilize the service. it is not

people are not used to having cars anymore. they sometimes use a car and go to a car sharing club or something. it is socially acceptable to cycle. 30, 40 years ago, you would maybe be seen as a loser if he came on a bicycle, -- if you came on a bicycle, but now it is for everybody. everyone is cycling. it is not, the former generation in the 60's, denmark, they could afford to buy a car and they really enjoyed it. they wanted to show it, and all trips they made or made by cars, the the new generation has a completely different view. >> i already gave my answer during my presentation. it is everything, especially if it is business or businessmen, it is money driven. show it is comparative in cost or it is less cost for business. because if you show that, there is a discussion. >> let me ask before i go to the next question, what in your experience the you believe was the most influential and excepting the different stages of the car and its role in the city? i am sure over 40 years, your attitudes toward the automobile have chan

many of us have cut down on our use of bottled water, and many of us have our priuses, but it will not make a difference. the thing that we can do, that every one of us in this room can do, is we can participate in changing how we consume land, which is the single thing that can most impact our children's future. so why treasure island? we as a community cannot afford to leave 400 acres of fallow land adjacent to the downtown under used. that does not just apply to treasure island. it applies to places like my partners' project at the hunters point shipyard where we have large pieces of land underutilized. we need to find a way to have our development concentrated there so that it replaces development that would otherwise take place at the border of our region. there is a reason that those sites are actually undeveloped. or undeveloped, at the present time. they have a lot of hair on them as real estate developments. when you think of developments, we have to account for sea level rise. we have to come up with a system of public transportation. all of which will cost some $1.5 billion

use. that comfort level will have us sit back and not think of the better use of the vehicles or share them in more appropriate ways. i think this ordinance would be very helpful. it would allow us to engage department at the fleet of all in a more precise way and get to the reasons on why this could be a more difficult or easier goal to accomplish. supervisor chu: a quick question for the city administrator. there is a comment that this program, at least the effort to reduce the fleet had been in progress for some time. i know there was work to reduce the fleet through your office. when we talk about the passenger vehicles in use at the moment, you mentioned this is a cumulative amount and it includes the enterprise department. do you know what percentage is the general fund compared to the puc? >> not by department. if i could give you the breakdown of the numbers. 824 r general government. 933 of them are safety departments. 936 our enterprise markets. -- enterprise departments. supervisor chu: what we are talking about the 20% reduction, is this 20% off of 2693? is this from of a differ

we have used the experience of what we did with ac and applied it here. we did not wait for need to figure it out. we have contractors that are assisting us. we have put quite a bit of effort into this. in our eyes, it has been a success. >> but at the end of the day, the policy stops with the mta. i appreciate you. thank you so much for working through these issues. >> thank you for the opportunity to present this transition. >> good afternoon. just to clarify, we would like to apologize because there were two presentations. the overarching program, clipper, covers all of the issues, the of reach as well as the implementation. mt a certainly makes the policy decisions and are to be held accountable. primarily the reason for two presentations are to address the specific issues from the m.t.a. site from which the mtc was not directly involved. they did support us in oversight. the automatic fare collection program, the project utilize two contractors. ours was the one that did all the infrastructure to get all of the old gates disconnected to get our system

several of us have the same types of ideas for district 10. we have the same principles that we are looking for. we have the same values. i know that there are several candidates that i have sat down with. we have had this discussion. it would not be fair or right to say anything about that today. there are still 41 days left. to knows what will happen? thank you. -- who knows what will happen? >> thank you. >> ms. smith. >> the two people i would choose would not be supported by the old guard or want to change their ways and do better. i do not know who is backing howhom. that would be the way i would determine it. i would find out where the money is coming from and to supporting the candidates. that is how i would make my decision. -- who is supporting the candidates. that is how i would make my own decision. i feel that all the candidates are great. we need a supervisor who has the courage to stand up and protect us. for too long, we have gone undetected. we need protection. that is why we have the hostilities in the district. no one is work

for the past few months because we have experienced such great growth, it has allowed us to iron out kinks that you have heard about and has made the transition smoother than it perhaps would have been. >> were those san francisco or bay area wide sales? >> bay area. san francisco right now is averaging about half of the transactions. 120,000 transactions are through mta vehicles. >> so you are confident over the next week that we are not going to run into a huge traffic jams? >> yes. at the bottom, that is the impasse that is scheduled for transmission in april. it is tracking the very closely as far as transition over to clipper from the paper product. about one-third of the 70,000 customers have already moved over to clipper. in absolute numbers, more people have moved over. moving on to the next slide, there are three slides here. these are transition that are scheduled for later in 2011. a smaller number of customers have transition our work, with the exception of rtc. mta staff had done a fantastic job working with those patrons to move over. about one-third of them have already

they also have to grapple with difficult decisions about how to use entitlements. as we have said often, there is lots of good reasons that we have not even heard yet for filling the day, but it is a challenge, and you met it with grace and charm, and we really appreciated working with you, and our work together started some time back when you were working with byron and taking an idea that was born a bcdc strategic planning retreat where the idea came up of treating a bay conservancy, and that was made legislation, and now, it is a program that benefits the san francisco bay through the coastal conservancy's program. we also appreciate your work on california coast, on the projects that monique mentioned regarding offshore oil development, and as a giants fan, i appreciate if you seeing the way clear to allow us to sit in the cheap seats with the great views of their of san francisco bay, and we wish you the best of luck in the future. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, commissioners. i just echo everything everyone else has said. there has never been an

but i have also had the opportunity firsthand to use the program. i hired an individual that i needed a claims person. i was shorthanded, and i did not have the wherewithal to hire somebody, and i hired this incredible woman who has come in, and i will continue to employ her, but just to give you a story, this literally happened just this week. on monday at 3:00 a.m., she had a child. at 11:00, she called my office and said she would be in tomorrow. we told her that that was not necessary. [laughter] but it shows the dedication, and i am also pleased to say we are providing full benefits, so she has her sick leave and medical, but she has done so much for my company. one of the things that is not talked about on this program, obviously, is the benefit to the employer. it is a benefit to the individual, but the other benefit is to employees that work for us. i have a statement from the claims manager in my office, and her comment was hiring someone who is participating in the jobs now program has enabled him to once again provide customers with the se

it was the law. >> do you have any questions or comments for us or actually i would be interested in hearing if you see a way to add the clarification about when it is tied to a permit. thank you. president murphy: next speaker, please. >> [speaking spanish] >> in the case of jose morales, the control of the number and legalization of the control of the numbers are in effect -- in effect, they should be a specification to the permit. in this case there was new construction that was canceled. in this case, because the new construction wasn't followed through the entire permit should have been canceled, should have been expired. the renumbering should not have happened. it wasn't justified and the owners ended up using the renumbering as a justification for arguing for an eviction. and there was a mistake made. it requires all the units be taken off the market. 574 never existed. it never came to fruition. because there wasn't any new construction. and that is what is being asked, that the number goes back to what it was before so that jose morales can go back to his house. thank you f

we have melissa modeling for us.r just going out on errands, it's important to look good too. >> i more clothes than anyone i know and i'm always casually challenged for that bus stop. because you don't want to wear sweats. a cardigan, a t-shirt. fun here, new for the season, great shoes. but you know what? she doesn't look sloppy, it's basic, but it's not flat. >> and since your waist with a belt. >> the best with a belt like that is very feminine. >> she looks good the whole day. >> all right, next look is women at work and we have tiffany modeling for us and men's wear is a very popular look. >> we took a cardigan, once again a classic and we added an animal print. even her simple trim has details. we have cinched it up at the waist. but the pants are wide and the patent leather will always wear a heel. she doesn't look masculine and she's appropriate. >> you look great. thank you so much, tiffany. >> finally we have railroad crossings on the run way to the real way. and we have dale modeling for us. >> so far the

so there is no incentive for us to have poppies. it's only bad for us. >> larry: thank you for giving us this time, mr. president. we'll do it again soon, i hope. >> definitely. good to talk to you.

also you have consistent uses that have the permit for tables and chairs. the more people you have on the streets, the more the public is present. when you look at the big picture, whatever the history of the hearing, i think that we have they changed context and one that merits the opportunities and it is a very conscientious merchant that will do the right thing. >> i him in opposition. we are on the left side. by putting tables there, that will interfere. without the benches, i would see food, beer, all kinds of things. i'm afraid that i have lost a lot of customers because of the smoking, and allowed music. people are smoking marijuana and other things. i am opposed to that. we are not many here because we have five workers representing them and my customers and my salon has small children and families their. they have put strippers' there and they are selling beer. there is no permit applying. they cannot mix business with smoking and food. thank you very much. i am opposed to that on behalf of the customers and families that would like to see the stre

instead of us having to wonder what data sets are out there and available, we actually have a central place where we can look and see what is available to us instead of having to do reporting to figure that out. there are so many amazing new tools and technologies available to journalists a round crowd sourcing and data visualization and napping. i believe that having an open, easily accessible platform just allows us to fulfill our mission of public service in a faster, easier, who will weigh -- cooler way. supervisor mar: if you would like to speak, please wait over on this side. >> find the chief technology officer at a bay area law firm. a lot of our clients on nonprofits and a lot of news organizations all over the area, so we are excited to get our hands on the stated -- nonprofits and a lot of youth organizations all over the area, so we are excited to get our hands on this data. if this process is set up, people can use this information and do interesting things with the information with our non- profit partners. we are really excited about it. most of our partners are outside

and i really want to thank the employees at the bank because they have really come behind us and they have given us school supplies, and christmas presents and food and at holiday time. but i want to tell you this one story one of the employees came through and they did a tour last year. it was just when everyone was talk about the h1n1 virus. in the shelter our families have individual bedroom they don't have to share with others but we have everything else is community. and so the employee came through and realized we were talking about the h1n1 virus and how everyone was quarantined to the bedrooms and when the family was in there and the kids with their moms they have nothing to do. and the employee look at the rooms and said okay, my goodness someday we would like to put a tv in here. the employee got behind that and gave us a tv for each bedroom. >> wow. >> amazing. >> you must be proud. >> we are very proud. and very happy to support it and we have collection box in the branches that we will forward money to for the shelter. >> all right. so drop stuff off to you. thanks for co

we have so much to do. i think both of usg what we are doing. >> karen, what do you make of the answer? >> the answer is fine. i think she could have been a little more up front. of course, this is ridiculous, i am not going to be the vice president in the 2012 election. this is a typical inside-the-beltway story. the newspapers are picking it up. they are going to take anonymous sources and run with it. this one has someone's publicist written all over it. the only interesting thing is that i do think there are a fraction of democrats that wish hillary was going to be on the ticket and are concerned about obama's chances in 2012. >> one election at a time, karen. now, let's go to the situation with meg whitman. karen, i'll ask you first. how do you get rid of this story? >> well, you know, gloria allred is the ultimate bottom feeder. i saw her in 2003 try to do something very similar to arnold schwarzenegger. it didn't work. so i look at the source. i consider the source is really gloria allred and however it is she is manip

we think having the america's cup here can only benefit us. there is more to sailing then prestige and money for us -- than prestige and money for us. it is about lifting the human spirit and healing the soul. i have seen many people come through our group. it has done wonders for people as young as eight or 16 with autism, people who are quadriplegic, who can learn to sail by themselves with a server system. people like me, who are blind, who have never thought of sailing. with the wind up on my face and the sun on my head, it is a fantastic experience and a good opportunity for us to bring that to the poor front. thank you. chairperson maxwell: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jeff greene. i direct the team program. there are several aspects of this. one of them is that when we take our people sailing and they go to treasure island, we cannot get on the docks because the docks facilities have not been set up. this is an opportunity for the facilities of san francisco to be raised and the accessibility to be improved. for m

so there is no incentive for us to have poppies. y: thank you for giving us this time, mr. president. we'll do it again soon, i hope.

it was the law. >> do you have any questions or comments for us or actually i would be interested in hearing if you see a way to add the clarification about when it is tied to a permit. thank you. president murphy: next speaker, please. >> [speaking spanish]

use it again. they do oil changes and sell it anyway, so now they know when a ticket to a. hal>> to you have something you want to get rid of? >> why throw it away when you can reuse it? >> it can be filtered out and used for other products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go.

all of us have to take the investment, be wise how we use our funds and grow the economy. w what we need to do is grow the economy, have innovation and create opportunity by creating new jobs. we should be saying yes to the investment that is coming in to california. we should be saying yes to the investment that helping us retool our economy and create opportunity and new jobs. these are well paying jobs. these are jobs that come across the entire spectrum, from all walks of life. >> we have about a minute each for closing arguments at this point. john, let's start with you. >> i think the closing argument in reference to the comment that was just made, green jobs are approximately 1% of the jobs in california, what are we going to do to put the 2.3 million people back to work that are currently out of jobs. a yes vote on prop 23 will be a common sense approach to safeguard the existing environmental programs. i think save billions of dollars and more than a million jobs in the state of california going forward. >> i think we should look where the money is coming from to s

the jury asked how many guns reviews in the robbery occurred none of the guns used have been recovered, charles mcganey, jerome williams all face robbery and murder charges. we will have the latest at noon, at 5:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. >> officials say the driver, joseph clabaugh, died of a heart attack in the bus accident last week. passengers did say at the time they noticed clabaugh sweating before he passed out. 12 passengers were injured. amtrak is investigating a deadly accident in the middle river. one person was killed yesterday on eastern avenue. 125 passengers were on board the train at the time. >> another maryland soldier has lost his life. sgt lance vogeler died from injuries he suffered last week. he served in the army for nearly nine years. a maryland navy seal killed last month will spend forever beside his best friend. the two were roommates but separated to fight wars in a different country. travis' family had his remains moved to arlington cemetery. a police officer has been laid to rest. officers were joined around the state to honor james fowler yesterday. he was ki

products. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is going to be a good thing for us to take used motor oil from customers. we have a 75-gallon tank that we used and we have someone take it from here to recycle. >> so far, we have 35 people. we have collected 78 gallons, if not more. these are other locations that you can go. it is absolutely free. you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> thanks, guys for showing up. wanted to give you an update on our jobs efforts now. as you know, the jobs now program, which was funded through what is referred to as e.c.f., through the federal stimulus program, is due to expire on september 30. just a week or so from today. that will impact potentially, worst-case scenario, it will impact regardless, 4,127 families in san francisco. i want to repeat that. 4,127 families will be impacted by the termination of the federal stimulus. not everyone will lose their job, however. but all of them will be impacted because their employers, be it non-profits, private sector businesses, large and small, and the city itself, will no longer have that job subsidy. and that

have in there, kids? we will show you. bleach. okay. bleach is great i used it this afternoon to get my shirt white it's great. do we need this much bleach at home? no. safeway need it? probably not. look what they have across from the bleach. it says don't mix ammonia and bleach makes a gas. these are bad things to mix with bleach. who's got these under their sink in i do. everybody does. you want to separate the ones that don't go to together. how do you find out? read the labels. these are department of transportation placards, they are colored. they are all red. they have the sort of flame thing up there. the little number here and number here. we've got books in our rig that tell us what these are. based on a number. we will see a 1219, look in the book and say a truck carrying 1219 and it's leaking every where what do we have. george, we have 92 octane gasoline, that's not good. we call people and get help. we as volunteers are not going to be hazardous material people. you need to know this is red, it's flammable. if there is a problem, let us know and

use it. we hope to have, you know, the services have been using versions of this policy for some time. hoping to have a common understanding in a single policy by the end of the year. and the full blown cost of fuel and the energy to keep the perimeter are the two elements of it. >> so fuel efficiency and stuff like that is something you considered earlier on in the process, we'll upgrade something and improve its capabilities, including its deficiency. fuel convoys have been under attack, and also the pakistan's government protested some of their troops have slowed or closed some of the border crossings obviously. what are some other ways you can get fuel troops in afghanistan? because obviously it's still a war zone and it's still a hungry force out there. >> right, this is true. there are a number of ways. that's a big focus for my office is how can we cut fuel consumption as part of the rapid fueling effort? what can we do right now? there are a number of things. the marines are fielding in the experimental ford operationing business. you can discuss that with the marines as well. t

to make up indecisions, it may go 25 feet but some of us won't be here in 150 years. we have to know what's available to us in the next 25 years so you have to get in your mind the range of possibilities. finally the worst thing we can do and i'm a general manager of a water district, is to believe we are not going to have to build this investment because we could flip the switch and the trends we see will continue from ten to 20 years. you understand that? we're not going back to our customers and say we're going to do greenhouse emissions and do things to stop it. first of all, we don't control the whole world, we can only do what we can do and that's a lot since five percent of the world produced most of the greenhouse e mibss but there's an economic move in japan and china and their moving forward but we can look back and say, tom i heard this morning say if it goes up a foot we have to and we're going to have to start educating the customers and people we serve. it's another problem that's here to stay and we are going to have to make the investment. message number one.

let us know if you have any questions on the accessibility things we do. we are glad to be part of that discussion. thanks. >> i am bob neighbor. i am here with several hats. i am a member of island yacht club in alameda. that is a diversity perspective. i am also a board of directors member for the san francisco yacht racing association. we oversee all racing in the area. i am excited about the boat choice as the commodore. lastly, i am a golden gate yacht club member. i grew up in ohio. neither of my parents went to college. my dad built our boat in our basement. during the summer and spring time, we would move it to make it ready for the summertime. we went sailing on the lakes in ohio. i watched the america's cup growing up. i visited rhode island as part of that. i moved to silicon valley to work in high-tech as an engineer. part of the attraction of the area was the sailing. this is the premier sailing venue in the world. people in harbor basic differently, but it is generally acknowledged that it is one of the top if not the top venues in the world.