we are happy to have him here with us. we have two short months before our pitchers and catchers will report for duty in scottsdale and start the process. we have shut them down for much of november because of a long season and distressful last two months. they are all cranked back up again, getting in shape, ready to to spring training. we cannot wait to start in scottsdale. we cannot wait to have a championship season here next year. thank you for being here. thank you for your support. larry? [applause] >> thank you very much, bill, thank you, once again, to the mayor of san francisco, mayor newsom, and special appreciation from the giants to the city department heads, members of city agencies, board of supervisors, who were so integral in helping us with all of the civic activities around the giants this year, and especially that day on november 3 where you were willing to turn the city inside out to accommodate a wonderful celebration. so thank you to the city and county of san francisco. we could not have asked for a

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

we have been having our convenes meetings. all of us agree. none of us have the structure. we need to have someone get involved with job opportunity. we need that in the t l. >> that's my comment. >> i don't know. people could respond to that. >> i have actually talked about kyle peterson to have a discussion. i agree. the need is out there. one of the things, with the crn structure. there has to be and agency that are going to have to step in. that was one the barriors. it wasn't mentioned before. with all of the other different crn's. there is an existing relationship that has transsended generations. i think the tl hasn't been a specific culture or ethnicity. i don't think the community ties are as long. but the conversation had sparked up and by all means, i am on board to see what can be a development. additionally, that's what i wanted to say. >> john. can you commit to that? this is a very good of example of where we can stop the infection. right? we know it's there. so let's stop it before it becomes a disease. can you commit, you have worked with people. this is so

let us have accountability. let us have transparency. have this meeting before the community at large with proper outrage, and let's see what happens. now, coming to the developers, i happy to know the developer at executive park. in fact, i have an office there . this developer wants to do good , but the planning department and you commissioners must ask yourselves is it a fact that his development was put on the back burner so that a rogue developer would be brought forward. now today -- and i have partners that work in canada and in china. today they are reaching out to us so that we can work with them to take over candlestick point, to take over treasure island, to take over hunter's point, and so on and so forth. this is a joke. and i told my partners i am not going to have anything to do with the devil. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> my name is fran martin, and i am with the visitation valley deny and planning alliance which developed the ordinance with supervisor maxwell. i am speaking today on behalf of the planning allian

the unanimous support of this court should give them great hope and expectation, that after some of us have moved on to new roles, the folks that have taken our place will be equally committed to making sure we follow through and showcase the city and this race on an international and world scene. thank you, everyone. now it is my honor to invite president david chiu to share some words with all of us. mr. president? [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i will be extremely brief because we have other items to finish in the board chamber. first of all, in sailing terms, in order for a team to win, the entire team need to be working together. i want to thank the skipper of our city, mayor newsom. all the members of his crew. i want to thank everyone on the starboard side and port side of the board of supervisors. in particular, christopher daly. you and the budget analyst raised so many issues that were important to help us figure out how we can minimize the cost to the city. as i look around this entire group, i know we are on the same vessel, that is the hms san francisco. i think this is th

have music into the evening. this is a principally parted use. they've indicated approval with conditions in the application is here to answer any questions that you have. >> you have a 41 the occupancy? >> yes, i do. >> i am curious. the cost of a deejay, will they have live bands. >> you don't have to pay them, they can pay for tips. there is $30 or $60 per person. or we can offer them food and drinks. >> i know many musicians from the place i used to go before it and they would play for free a couple of times and they would charge me $20 or $40. >> where did you used to work? >> the jazz bestrode downtown. >> what did you do? >> i became a mentor. >> very good, thank you very much. >> are there any other questions? okay, police department. >> i'm recommending approval with the conditions that we are able to have copies. >> ok, thank you. did you review the conditions? >> yes, i did. i don't want to run a club business. this is a restaurant. at -- i work in the financial district. after 8:00 or 9:00, this is a ghost town. i would like them to ha

eight of us have served for less than two years, but we have a tremendous amount of talent. we now have seven law degrees on the board. we have six masters degrees on the board. with our new incoming class, we have a civil rights attorney, a deputy city attorney, a venture capitalist, the founder of a small business. we span the diversity of our neighbors, the diversity of our demographics, the dersty of our political perspectives, and starting on tuesday, we are going to come together to play for the first time as a team. now, we need to figure out fast thousand do this because we have many challenges in front of us. within very short order we are going to have to tackle a budget deficit of almost $400 million without any of the budget tricks we've been able to use in years past. we are going to have to figure out how to collaborate to bring down our looming pension and health care benefits. we're going to have to figure out how to continue to provide basic city services while taking care of the most vulnerable in san francisco. we're going to have to do this together. as w

thank you for having us. we have kind of a longer board report because this year there are so many things going on. we have so many priorities. as your advisers, we are working on those as well. one of the things we have questions about is the superintendent zone in the city. we have been hearing some parent concerns. there is constant confusion about how this incredible amount of money is being spent, and who is making decisions about it. a lot of people have questions on whether or not it is the district. is it the schools? who is going to be spending this, and for what? it is just a constant thing that we are hearing from lots of different people, from lots of different places. it would just be really helpful to get a clear way for parents to figure out what is going on. we at one. heard something about progress reports going out about what -- we at one time heard something about progress reports going out about what is happening. anything that could clarify the process of what is going on in the schools. t

i think all of us have bought about the position. we have a new interim mayor. we need to come together and. we need to focus on moving forward. with john of avalos, we have someone who has the experience of making sure the business gets done. supervisor avalos has been the budget chair for the past few years and played a key role in making sure we have a balanced budget. i also think we need someone who will work with all sides. i believe supervisor avalos could not have done his job as budget chair without the ability to do that. it is for that reason i nominate him for board president. supervisor chiu: do you accept? supervisor avalos: i do except. supervisor chiu: if there are no further nominations, without objection, nominations are closed. at this time, we will have public comments. madam clerk, please read the instructions around public comments. >> now is the time for any member of the public to address the board for a two two minutes each on the nominations for the office support president. they may do so now. if members of the public could make their

without basic help, some would certainly die. >> i used inform have animals, and -- i used to have animals and i was able to grow food. now there are only berries to live on. >> handouts given by the world food organization last two weeks. the w.f.p. has been here since 1963 and admits it has made people too dependent. it has now drawn up a plan not without danger. it is backed by uganda, britain, and other western donars. it is to identify the most vulnerable, like these borderline mall nourished children, and then persuade everyone else to fend for themselves. the aide official that designed project has moved here from his home to see if it can work on the ground. >> the people are taking risks, we are taking risks. in the end, those risks i think are paying off for the people in uganda. >> with difficult decisions, though. there is plenty of food in the tented warehouse, but now only a very few will receive it. magdelina got her last food handout in november. now, she said, she is running out. >> they are saying that the food aid has stopped completely and they only have supplies to las

it is hindering us, but it was not meant to. if that is the case, you have to let us know. that was my last comment. thank you so much. vice president yee: let me back off of what i said earlier, when i made some comments. just listening to the discussion, i am realizing more and more the issue here is almost everyone is in agreement to supporting evaluation. all of us sitting here have a different definition of what this evaluation would look like and the levels of the valuation. it is probably true that we have one level of the valuation when it comes to the process part of it. so some of the evaluation that we are thinking of -- a think what happened is that the board sort of devolves over the year into thinking the evaluation should be more of an impact evaluation. and it is true. we start getting into that depth of evaluation. it is very time-consuming, costly. you need a certain type of expertise for certain types of evaluation. i almost have to go back to my original conclusion last week, which is that staff sit down together, talk about the valuation -- the evaluati

how many teachers have used it? how many have said it hoped their instruction or helped them? that is the kind of information we want. i believe mr. truitt collected some of that day to himself. why don't we have it? >> there is a lot of stuff here from all these different programs, and they are working incredibly hard, and we are a little bit confused. we are hearing questions about the data you are requesting. we are sitting back there saying, "we have done that. we have it right here. there is all the wellness' data. they come to me with their plan." the have to ask themselves how this proposal answers the needs described and how the alliance to strategic plans. what are the outcome measures? we have things like 80% of the students felt heard and respected by at least one other student in the group. this is well mistake to we have had. i have measures here from athletics, which also reports to me. they will say the lack of equipment for school teams -- the safer environments at athletic events measured by the number of incidents occurring in relation to the total events. i

we have fallen into some pitfalls. comcast filed this merger with us on january 28 of last year. we have an internal clock up 180 days or repaid it is a big merger and we should carefully consider it. we should do it in a more timely manner. manner.

by doing that, we can achieve the high expectations that citizens have for us. thanks to the incredible work of our staff, implementing the law management ideas that i brought in. we have brought in $245 million above our budget in the past year. that led to making sure that we did not have to layoff teachers. that allowed us to keep firefighters and police. that meant more parts which could stay open. that also meant that more buses could run. that money is what you rely on to get to work everyday, enjoy your life, and as families, that you get to live the quality of life that you have. our office is also using new technologies, professional management technologies and the customer service our highest priority. some of these improvements have led to us closing millions of dollars in tax loopholes. we have launched the program to fight predatory lending, to make sure that home owners understand they can do something about their homes in foreclosure. lastly, i am extraordinarily proud that many members of the solar task force are here tonight and were able to help

have shut down. they should open them all. none of us wants to see violence, whether in terms of protest or reacting to protest. it is of very interesting time and the people of egypt have to make their decision, and again, yes, that has been the history. we have tolerated more human rights abuses or lack of pluralism -- tolerating another voice in the political system. look at china. >> iran. >> historically, yes, you could name many. the awareness of human rights is certainly intensified. but what is exciting is, a great deal of what has happened in san francisco, whether it is twitter, facebook, it has been a part of democratizing the world. people can communicate with each other in real time and act upon that communication to speak in large numbers about their personal freedom. some of these roads lead back to san francisco. i was proud also when the president had his conversation on youtube, san francisco bay area young people were part of the questioning. we recognize communication is different than real time. it makes a difference

have you with us here on our t.v. headlines are russian born woman devoted norwegian of the year faces deportation from let's get it maybe after she publishes a critical book about the country's immigration system having lived there openly but illegally for years by contrast some on the un tara list are being given asylum in the way. newly released wiki leaks show russian opposition groups are regularly seeking u.s. help but often getting the cold shoulder secret diplomatic cables suggest u.s. embassy staff in moscow have grown tired of frequent visits looking for cash and political aides. at a meeting in washington chinese president hu jintao has told us business leaders that his country is ready to help them out of its deepest prices in years despite continuing differences with the u.s. beijing's growing global influence is encouraging some in america to look east to make money. next interview show spotlight host asks russia's chief hygiene inspector on the health dangers facing the world's largest country and the wa

it is many more than that you're a good government attempts have been circumvented by people using social media websites. these pictures have been widely circulated on the internet. after an emergency meeting this afternoon, the president spoke to an increasingly skeptical nation. he said he told the army not to fire live ammunition and that he would tackle inflation. the price of food has soared. this is evidence that few people can afford to buy fish. people are frightened to voiced dissent. he did not want to show his face. now he said he had no faith in the government because of corruption. there is a dawn to dusk curfew. the source of revenue is now under threat. >> have been more attacked in the ivory coast of the crisis over the disputed election continues. people love set fire to you in vehicles in the capital. karen allen reports during your -- reports. >> this is the latest trophy, a u.n. vehicle set alight in the commercial capital. these men despise the peacekeeping troops, who they claim are backing a rival. >> it is an opportunity for us to show we can also take action, and

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.

us the same treatment. thank you. commissioner: just for clarification, your area does not have an isg. what number would we use? >> we would take into account agencies that have higher isg's and how they benefit from the inclusion of isg's. one was increased by 10% because of their isg. there should be given to us. i just wanted to finish by saying item five, which we became aware of at this meeting to hey, we cannot support that at this point. thank you very much. -- at this meeting today. president vietor: thank you. anymore public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner torres? commissioner torres: we have the first issue, is that we have allocations that add up to over 100 million gallons per day. in the negotiated water supply agreement, that everyone here has signed, we will take a look and see whether they can be permanent or what might happen. so folks that are saying san jose and santa clara should have known individual in terms of allocation, that is not in compliance with the contract. that is not one of the choices. the choice is either that you give them the enti

a resolution before us. have a motion by commissioner mirkarimi seconded by commissioner schmeltzer. can we take that without objection? done. please call the next item. >> item 6, authorization to amend the legal services agreement with miller, 01, and trost to extend the term to february 20, 2012. >> ms. miller's contract will expire at the end of february. we decided to bring this to you now. february will be a joint meeting. we wanted to get the head of the game and get that contract approved. we have learned over the years, we have had a full year of having a full-time staff on board, what the ratio when breakdown as of how much time she spends on cca direct work, which comes out of the cca fund, and the general fund side, the cca side -- the general fund side, and how that works out. we're asking for $125,000 not to exceed the amount for this upcoming year. $20,000 of that will be coming out of the general fund side, which is out of our reserves, which is what we have been sending down. we will have a full

several years ago although some of us may have forgotten about it as the first reports of birds deaths in the us as we see on this screen appeared. turn myself to the center for disease control in the us and they told me there was no problem on their side and it would be years to be so indeed for a simple reason you me and most to remember the situation we had with eb in flu so there was too much hype about it those cases involved waterfalls mostly since they are the main source of the disease in the wilderness and they were supposed to suffer first this time either in turkey nor in the us or in europe there have been any cases a waterfall it's also recent cases have very little in common in term of the way those birds who died this is another factor that gives us reason to believe that evian flu has not yet returned. however you want me give you only one example in egypt. there have been six cases of avian flu registered this year with three. camps. as a whole since they have been fluid the damage began from human to human deaths yes i mean humans i'm responsible for humans only so si

turton us measles she would have been reached with me. because she could see that children develop reversible complications like polio for example if there are children that died before the very eyes of their mothers so it used to be a reality now that we have not had it for many years it's a usual reaction however when we face the real pollio last year due to an outbreak . of the biggest outbreak in the twenty first century the biggest on the planet perhaps the last twenty years following the discontinuation of vaccination after to stand with true from the us a saw art which resulted in seven hundred cases including five hundred cases of paralytic poliomyelitis let me tell you when i was a student which was a long time ago. you were told that is had been dealt with there was a problem to find even one example of that infectious disease i lost in the very brief question that doctors have everything upside down which most of them smoke especially in our country you say you are very strict when it comes to performing the duties but why are y

commissioner norton: i share some of the frustration that has been voiced tonight about the need for us to have a clear and were established format for how we will evaluate these programs. some of this description makes me feel like -- what measurements are we using? it just feels a little bit haphazard, i guess, based on what i am seeing. but the other thing that i think is even more troubling to me is that cac has note -- i know that they are meeting regularly and have done work. but there were not at our meeting last week and are not here tonight. that is troubling. it makes me wonder how engaged -- these are our appointed representatives from the community that we are supposed to be relying on for their explanations. if they are not there, what that is saying to me is that for some reason they feel disconnected from this process. there is not -- but never work they are doing -- whenever work they are doing, if there were proud of it and felt it was important to us, there would be here to show it to us, and they are not. that really bothers me, and i would like to know more about that. i wil

the problem with us having an invitation only as an. our messaging will honestly be a first come basis. the thing that we need to be very clear is that there will not be any mass marketing about this other than a pr push. we will utilize the bus shelters as much as we can but it will not be advertised. >> we will see if we can get an energy but nothing paid or anything that would be deemed advertising. we're hoping that we are getting people that have been invested at the 42 vindicated with us. if i knew i could attend a concert without a ticket, i could be encouraged to try to get into the azania. there is no way that you would know who shows up. it might be 500, it might be 5000. >> i know it will be communicated at a certain number which we hope will encourage people to come early or realize that they might not be able to get in. >> the doors are open right now at 3:00. >> doors close when you get to a thousand? >> yes. >> it is advantageous to us but we don't we have a way of truly understanding how many people will come. >> i was g

many of us have been through this before. i think what is most helpful, because there's so much material, the most important thing is to get the commissioners' hands before the meeting. the presentation is frankly using a recitation of what is in this article's of literature. i would urge my colleagues and the president to give us time for the chief to put together what he thinks is the best material, best presentations to get it to us a week in advance so the commissioner could study that material in quiet and reflect that. but also give time for any other commissioner who wanted to bring what they might think is credible varying information. it is an important decision. it is still relatively fast, and that would give time to have these materials in commissioners' hands. we could talk about it, and you could perhaps a vote that night. again, that is my suggestion. >> we had previously discussed there might be a significant discipline matter brought forth that night that could take a couple of hours. we were talking of a jan

to have a project that i think is really rock-solid and will answer a lot of issues that many of us have concerning handbills, concerning advertising, concerning the cost to small businesses, concerning littering issues that neighbors have. by way of a small introduction, both my parents and my in-laws were small business owners. i very much understand every little bit counts and every little bit makes a difference. i also clearly understand that having the health the merchant corridor -- healthy margin corridor is key to any neighborhood. our small businesses in san francisco mean everything to us. they define san francisco. the neighbors have been very concerned about the litter of handbills, menus, different types of advertising, and the ineffectiveness of current processes of saying "i do not want these." handbills continue to be left on doors, on porches, and on sidewalks, in spite of the wishes of the property owner, renter, etc. there are also security concerns with leaving handbills. if you are not home, you do not want it to be so obvious you might be troubling. your place might