in our city. that benefits all of us. the mayor is interested in generating $13 million for an affordable housing trust fund. that is critical. in district 6, we are still not able to meet regional development goals. in our tax sector, we need to see continuing commitment from our private sector to keeping our city the world-class city we all talk about. supervisor of the los reminded me that this is an issue we had been talking about since 2004. for many years, when we were part of the people's organization, i think a key part of what we have been talking about is how you raise revenue for a city to provide more equity, lowering the "burden "on our companies. i think it is important that we increase private-sector investment. the rest, i submit. supervisor farrell: colleagues, today i am introducing legislation along with supervisor wiener, which will provide relief to homeowners in san francisco. there are thousands of young families in san francisco. tic owners have been hit hard by the recent recession. i would argue t

this is a tax used in three dozen cities. it is structured in a progressive way, unlike a flat payroll tax. it scales up with gross receipts. i think it is a fair way to ask the business community to help us with city services. we are proposing six different services. i want to see business tax reform. i want to thank the business community. so many individuals and companies have taken part. we are closer than ever to business tax reform. i appreciate the proposal mayor lee and i are putting forth, which would create $13 million in revenue. but i think both of the proposals on the table are based on the same gross receipts proposal, related to the business fee. i appreciate the fact that we still have ongoing structural budget deficits. if you look at our last financial forecast, i plan to work with both sides to push a measure to consensus on -- and am open to changes on how we get there. i think we are better at working together in these conversations to get results. i look forward to working with you and the mayor. the rest

that is why i need all of you to work with us in our city. ate our diversity, but work hard together for all of us. i am so glad to see all of the community grand marshals you have in your program today from all walks of life. we have activist attorneys common community activists, artists, former political people all ov

that is why i need all of you to work with us in our city. ate our diversity, but work hard together for all of us. i am so glad to see all of the community grand marshals you have in your program today from all walks of life. we have activist attorneys common community activists, artists, former political people all over the map in terms of the discipline that is reflected in community awards. people have done great things, and i want to especially single out someone who has given me a lot of support and a lot of vision for what the city needs, and that is your lifetime achievement community leader you are honoring today with a lifetime achievement award, and that is nearly brown, jr.. thank you for being here. [applause] if i may, in light of all the different organizational and community leaders you are honoring as grand marshals, and a big thanks to the board chair and all the other staff who has worked hard to put on a successful gay pride month of activities. i also want to call up and willie brown for this certificate of honor for your

in this city. this budget should be reflective of the us caring about our city in every possible way. so i welcome you in doing this, the first of six budget hearing that we will hold throughout the city. you are welcome not only to be part of this one, but you can be a part of the other five as well. we want to give every district diversity to participate. thank you very much and i want to signal my appreciation for the departments with us today. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i just want to recognize, this had never happened before mayor lee, and i want to recognize how important it is for a leader in our city to do this. so thank you. [applause] if you are wondering who these folks sitting with us are, these are city department heads who serve with us. we wanted to have the opportunity to hear from you in terms of your needs and priorities. we are going to do as little talking as possible. the want to respectfully hear from you as the put the budget together. i have the pleasure of introducing you to them today. we have trent from the human resources agency. ed sweeney. bob pa

use any time, it is simple to put your name in. not to block anyone, but this is the us in the city and how to get in touch with you so, it is pretty simple. lots of those men new forms. this page is public information. the stuff all along the bottom asks you about your former officers and more business information? that is not public and frisian is that -- so, if you are a venue and you want to check on a promoter that comes to you, this is what you will see. clicking on it will all of you to see, again, that public information. so, that other step will not be accessible to people in the account holder. a real promoter, i put that in. in the legislation the touch of promoters not on the list and consequences to that, but hopefully, again, this is not to get in your way at all, it is just to finally give us a list and that idea of who is operating in san francisco. you have a question? >> [inaudible] smaller venues [inaudible] >> white. so, the question, something i will talk about next, the new permit that be created, almost done this year compared is going to require folks to use this. i think that the answer is no. almost surely

it will allow us to do good work in terms of collecting revenues for the city. the other major initiative we are working on right now, we have released our banking services request for proposal. it will allow us to update and improve the types of services we provide, including banking services, cardholders, processor services, gateway services like on-line payments, and so on, including even armored car services. i am very excited to remind you that it is through the good work we have done with supervisor avalos and others on the board that we were able to include social irresponsible banking collection, which are mandatory for all the respondents. thank you very much, supervisor. i also wanted to note that we are attentive to language access -- access issues in our office. we have a line serving the public. we have budgeted $15,000 specifically to provide language access. we also have a history of working with summer youth. we have between three and four of placements each year. we have requested an additional three summer interns in our office. i would be happy

in this handout and on the overhead -- i am sorry. i do not have a slide for this. we read able to catalog all of the city services that could possibly be used in a commercial corridor. that was illustrative to the city family to better understand. the puc has dollars for waste- water treatment. that can be used for street beautification as long as you know who will take care of the improvements when they're implemented. when you have intra-department of conversations about programs, use your resources are being used more strategically. this baseline assessment is a tool we will be giving to stakeholders and partners in corridors so they know what is available. from there, we will be doing corridor assessment. i have prepared an outline of what these look like in terms of elements. you need to do an economic and business analysis. you need to do demographic analysis. you need to understand planning and land-use analysis. look at this neighborhood institutions. libraries, banks, schools, parks. what are the things which can be utilizing to make a stronger and healthier neighborhood? after you do the assessment, if you start thinking about cus

only 30 past 4 in the morning there. 69 degrees in kansas city. for usw york city current temperature at 59 degrees it's not going to be warming up that much more. we will get into a high of 62 degrees. cool side across the northeast. we have an area of low pressure sitting here in moisture and cooler temperatures into the northeast. showers and thunderstorms expected today. the heavier stuff will be concentrated across maine and eastern new hampshire not expecting a washout for today, though. we will have heavier thunderstorms in northern georgia and atlanta. we could see delays at the airport because of the heavier thunderstorms. 94 for the high in new orleans. kansas city sunshine 85. as we head west ward the next several days we are tracking a pretty strong storm system that are bringing areas of rain. snowfall out across the sierras. >>> thank you so much maria. >> today marks the 3rd day of diamond jubilee celebrations for the queen. on the agenda a star studded rock concert. amy is joining us live from the royal palace gardens in london with all o

us. it shows that the asians are succeeding in education and everything. we have data that shows how the blacks are going down. and this city has denied us to move forward. i'm requesting that the supervisors get together, make legislation for the board to say that we need to set aside a million dollars. half of it will be on the bunt -- president chiu: thank you very much, mr. washington. >> and the other half will show that the study that you had -- president chiu: thank you very much, mr. washington. thank you. >> in closing, i ask the sixth district, the 10 district -- president chiu: thank you very much, mr. washington. mr. washington, we have to give everyone equal time so thank you very much for your testimony. >> put that million dollars in that budget. president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. next speaker? thank you. >> hello, i'm larry edmond. i want you to see this first. this newspaper, and then the article about the good samaritan being jumped on at the liquor store in the district six area, being pounced by a store owner. i tell people hate crimes is real. i know this is gay pride week. [speaking in

as a reminder, this is an agency that was operating outside of the city's financial system using a different payroll system in different collective bargaining units, using different contract in roles. bringing it into the city family in rules and procedures is probably going to be an effort that takes the full year ahead, and we will pursue a lot of time from our staff as well as the city administrator staff and bring that ahead. we are looking for to implementing an open checkbook initiative this year, which will provide the public with improved access to public and searchable information regarding the city's spending and budget information. we have some of this available on our website that lets a member of the public look up a given department contract and see how much we're spending on a certain vendor or on a given service. we are hoping to broaden that into a broader sense of searchable information that will give the public more insight into how their tax dollars are spent. we are looking forward to pushing ahead with that this coming year and developing some of the key components of that project. we ha

we are creating a climate that gives entrepreneurs and investors confidence in our city, allowing them to work with usnovate, grow and create jobs, whether they are in neighborhoods, small businesses or tech start-up or a thriving global headquarters. in neighborhoods, we are more than doubling grants available to small businesses, and we are including $4 million for neighborhood commercial districts through our new invest in neighborhood strategy. that includes job squad and the recapitalize the small business revolving loan fund. we are bringing staal to the neighborhoods -- city hall to the neighborhoods where it belongs, to support small businesses. my proposed budget includes $4 million in smart capital investments and $441 million in smart capital investments in our city's 10-year capital plan to improve and invest in the city's infrastructure. [applause] over the next two years we'll invest in and improve or water system and continue investing in our waterfront. we will also continue to invest in our parks. and i've joined the members of the board of supervisors to introduce $195 million bond m

there are things it can be used for, but it has to be used on behalf of the city attorney's efforts. what i am telling you is in use -- i am willing to use that money for what our general fund responsibilities to help me investigate and prosecute and pursue consumer protection cases. ultimately, if i am paying for that out of money that is restricted that i can utilize, you are going to be able to free up other general fund money, to do other things that are a priority to you. and i'm willing to pursue that. >> thank you. to the comptroller's office, with regard to the $8 million -- whatever the balance is, maybe $8 million for consumer protection work -- do you have a sense of where that money could be spent? are there other general fund expenses we could offset with that finding? >> supervisors. i'm not aware of the balance. i would be happy to work with the city attorney's office, but this is somewhat news to me. supervisor chu: ok, if i could ask for you to work with the city attorney to analyze what that money could be used for, or if there is an additional balance, and if there are other general fund expe

what we all know who was really behind us arriving in. cities used against the syrian as well as the sanctions introduced against the syrian government media fields the true nature of waging a series that today the people of syria targeted by terrorists armed sponsored by regional powers like. saudi arabia turkey. as well as by western nations such as. the how those who often talk about fighting terrorism joined their forces today to support terrorists with syria being the boss what are you going to thank you very much for being with us today mr. minister of information. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. with the end of the war and going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared from the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. of the victims to use it as a threat all as an actual e

in the city gets their stuff done. our demands are important in our district as well. >> we do not make that kind of distinction. this is one of the most heavily used transit hubs in the city. it is a top priority for us. the things we have been able to do around their, we did the crosswalk on the ocean at 280. pbart did get back east side connector done. -- that east side connector done. we have a pretty big work plan for that area. we are making our way through some of the items, like this one. we have had institutional barriers that we have not been able to overcome. it is not representation of a lack of interest for the district. supervisor avalos: there has been a lack of care for the district. i had to bring the mayor there last year to get things moving. we have garbage that was never picked up. i called in a number of times and it never got done. it was not until this push came from the mayor's office to really gets things moving. we need that kind of push all the time and we need to make sure that we are moving past that neglect. i pushed hard to get those curb ramps as well. i remember pushing my son in a stroller, and it was awful. peopl

in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside, so there are issues with whether proofing and sealing the equipment from the elements. >> the controls and motors are up here on the top floor. >> very simple -- similar to the elevators we looked at. this is similar to that technology. >> i saw a crowd of people downstairs waiting to take a ride on the elevated to get this fabulous view. that is a terrific

us families in san francisco. we're driving across town to crocker, which is a great facility. to make it easier for those of us committed to the city, and who believed in the public- school system year, help us with some of the after-school activities and bring as a field in golden gate park. it is a centrally located place for families to get to. if you could make it work for us, that would be terrific. >> next speaker. >> i am jason mitchell. two of my daughters came to speak. san francisco has the lowest per capita amount of children of any city in the country. i am so heartened by the activists and the activism of all of us. i am also frustrated and irritated. this is a simple thing you could do to value us as parents and children. you have no idea how hard -- to any of you have children? >> we are allowing kids right now. >> do something for us as families and children. thank you very much. >> next under 18 speaker. [laughter] >> add does she want to speak? -- does she want to speak? >> the reason that we want beach chalet soccer field is so kids can have fun and have saved fields to play on. >> thank you very much. >> i have

us. if they make money and create conditions for them to invest in our city, we expect them to work in partnership with us. that is why you see a lot of department's finding innovative ways to work with private companies to make money. whether they protect companies like sales force or twitter, they will make a lot of private investment moneys. we're trying to turn their attention to our needs in government, as well as the private sector, and investing in neighborhoods. if you can grow in the bayview, third street, they can grow with us. it is always about not just them growing, all of us growing together and to share. that is why we are having this great discussion about shared economy, because we need for sharing. that is the secret, i think, in making better government. where the money is gained, we share it and allow other people to build on the foundation. i just want to share that with you. i will say that we're not going to give up. we're not giving up. that is not going to go away. we just need, at this time, because of that elimination about redevelopment, you know how i feel about that a

the proposed cuts are unrealistic for us in the city administrators of those given there are no anticipated vacancies and this attrition rate has been 0%. what we propose is instead of this attrition, we propose delaying the hiring of the 0932 position until january to garner savings there. on page 69, the second issue is the earthquake safety program. the budget analyst is recommending decreasing the position from a manager 4 to a manager 2 position, and we respectfully disagree in that this position requires a highly technical person with the knowledge and ability, who is likely an architect or engineer or certified this -- building inspector. this person would require extensive knowledge of local and national building codes, which are in constant change, and experience and emergency planning. the ability to work with the community with outreach to improve these vulnerable buildings and also to work with any of the different departments. as you know, we don't know when the next earthquake will occur, so we want to staff this position immediately. the former city administrator amy brown ha

advance foreign politics, but i don't think that any of us thought that this year, we would see the first elected asian-american sworn in at cityf that, i want to take a moment and think of you. none of us would be here hall stage but for your stories, the challenges that the community has faced in surpassed. and diversity of the committee, we are moving forward. >> i just want to thank everybody for having all of us here. how to be honest, i did not prepare a speech, but it truly is an honor to serve the city. it is not often that we have a city that is so beautiful and wonderful and also a place for immigrants to be able to serve. i am honored to serve alongside the mayor and my colleagues on the board of supervisors. i think that after all of the years i have come to this event, you have outdone yourself. the big hand, thank you so much. it is also an honor to be here, and i think if you celebrate the accomplishments of the community, it is incredibly important to remember the history, which is what asian- american month is about. but the fact that so many of us h

us in 2009. goopublic works is here. this reminds us of the 3000 people but passed away in 1906 from the devastating earthquake, but the rebirth of our city is with us. i have been in all of these other positions where we are always prepared. and we are already engaged in recovery efforts. we were there with a whole staff. we have six we assure you that when the next big event happens, that water system will be there for us to deliver water with that 24 hours. a huge change from depending on this fountain. we are handing it off to generations of youth in the city to understand -- make sure they're prepared. go to our website, it tells you all the things there. iti is about having those items prepared.w we will survive. that is how we get ready and celebrate and honor the people who left us and make sure our city is ready. thank you for being here. congratulations to our survivors. >> very nice job. behind me is a good friend and a great firechief. you go back 106 years. braxton morning. -- good morning. one of the survivors could not be with us. those are amazing changes. it does give us the opportunity to remember what happened. we comme

a recent spike in gun related deaths in san francisco has the city's mayor looking into a controversy police tactic called stop and frisk. it is being usedn cities such as new york. should >> and no one disputes that the new york program does racially profile. it could be that those are high crime areas of the fact that the mayor have gone out of his way , >>jaqueline: @ temperatures dropping to and in the south bay and in the north bay, 64 in oakland, as we look ahead to the next several days, the fog returns. drizzled close to the clothesline as possible into tomorrow morning. saturday the fog stays with us conceding to cool temperatures. saturday, less fog and warmer conditions. fog tracker 4 tomorrow morning, widespread fog by the 7:00 hour. drizzle close to the coastline. the 9:00 hour will see virtually no clearing. i do think the fog will remain near oakland in the san francisco coastland this is clear by my face. temperatures in the '70s to mild. some our inland valleys will be in the '70s and low 80s. here is a look at your extended forecast. foggy conditions of the next couple of days. winds out of the north will start to pick

in the united states with combined sewer systems. the other approach was to separate wastewater from stormwater, using two pipe networks. this separate system simply carries the stormwater away from the city. but even separate systems pollute the watershed. in developed areas, concrete and other impervious services prevent water from naturally soaking into the land. as the rainwater moves over the roads and concrete expanse, it captures trash and invisible chemicals, sending them straight to the nearest waterway -- untreated. when engineers first designed america's water infrastructure -- the drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems -- they were some of the most advanced in the world. but the infrastructure is growing old. and population growth and development, particularly in urban areas, have made it difficult for original system designs to meet modern health standards and reliably satisfy demand. man: our water and wastewater systems really are engineering marvels. because it's buried, it's invisible to us, and we tend to take it for granted. that's a mistake. like any engineered system, it requires maintenance and periodic rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. it's so ou

and taking place on francis street. >>> we know who's going to be in charge of protecting us in baltimore city. a nationwide search is now onto replace commissioner fred bealefeld who retired in august and day to day operations have been turned over to the deputy commissioner. the mayor released the full panel picking the next chief and on it a president of johns hopkins and the university of maryland law school dean, the chairman of the search mim committee is ken thompson. >>> tomorrow the commander in chief will travel to baltimore president obama is scheduled to hold a campaign event while in town. reception will take place tomorrow at the hyatt downtown. general admission tickets cost $250 and 1,000 dollars if you want to become an event sponsor. >>> if you live in odenton or crofton you will be asked to conserve water until 7 this morning. crews have been working to fix the water main break since yesterday afternoon. the problem is the underground water main connecting to a well in the treatment plant taking them on rideel road. >>> a texas teen decided to take on quite a mission. >> he

in front of us is in fact. when making several times trains such as city trains. and this is something our engineers are working on. they want and starting from the thirty nine train final assembly and testing will take place here at the factory if they do nothing other what is this and gradually the production process of these trains with will be increasingly localized here crowing from twenty to eighty percent of what that you know if we need to. but these new trains will only be as useful as they are c. so for that reason the leaders of the joint project decided to install the very latest safety system in the swallows coming off the line the similar devices have been in place on all trains for quite some time but until now they basically existed as individual components which couldn't corney their functions but three russian companies teamed up to fully integrate their products tom for the very latest and most effective system. the result is block whole system dedicated to gathering integrating and analyzing a constant stream of data non-board unit takes in all

all know that san francisco is the only city in the state of california that charges a business payroll tax as our main way of asking our business community to help us pay for city services. as the only city in the state that does that, obviously, that has created a certain amount of disincentives to the creation of jobs. at this time, only 10% of all businesses pay the business payroll tax and there has been for many years a discussion of the unfairness of those businesses that have had to shoulder the burden and a lot of small businesses that have been in more labour intensive industries. in 2010, i have asked the commission to consider when possible variation of the payroll tax which we considered and debated for a number of months. mayor lee and i asked our city controller and chief economist to spend a number of months researching in detail what for possible alternatives to the business payroll tax which has led us to the conversation that we're about to have today. i think you know the gross receipts tax is used in over three dozen cities in california. i want to thank our controller and our chief economist and their staff for putting together

in san francisco. it's a chance for us to honor the tremendous work that happens in the city and also to honor the individuals who are responsible for some of that success. congratulations to all of our honorees. we're very grateful for your work. let's give a hand for them. [applause] the good government awards also support spur's good government work. it is a central part of our mission. our agenda is admittedly ambitious. we analyze every local measure on the san francisco ballot, which until recently was a pretty formidable task. we participate in most of the major issues of city government from pension and payroll tax reform to some of the most important discussions on how we fund a lot of our public services, whether that finding different revenue streams for our parks, are trying to find new ways to fund public transportation in the city. we're very happy to be working with mayor lee and the board to address a lot of these issues. this will clearly be a busy year for us. another component of our work is connecting the city's robuspro o assistance with our many business partners. this is a core part of

as an update to re-examining the plan in a master plan as a guiding document just as we use the downtown plan to help us interpret the direction in which the city reinvents itself in its built form, the master plan for golden gate park has been devised to help us interpret and understand how to take this particular park into the future. i i do believe that the intensification of the beach chalet as proposed in this particular project, although modified to the way that it was presented today and i appreciate that, is still too intense, partially because the use of lighting from dusk until 10:00 at night, and i do believe that astroturf, for all the reasons that were described, for health and environmental reasons, is an inappropriate response to that natural setting. there are many studies. i am not sure that i can properly tied them to astroturf and the particular form that you have tied them to this facility, but the rubber particles that are found in the environment are more and more found in the food chain of wildlife. and that is of great concern, because that creates a breakdown and environmental impact, the effects of which have not been

running at four campuses, it's received millions of dollars in funding from a similar program used in big cities called zip car. jeff miller is ceo of wheelz, a graduate of northwestern, stanford and harvard and is a former chicken farmer in uzbekistan. true story. laura colodni of the dow jones and moira of tech nation. obviously, we want to talk about car rentals, but the chicken farming, former chicken farmer in uzbekistan. >> i was working for a microfinance organization that did chicken farming. so spent -- >> you're a money man of the uzbek chicken farmers. >> as soon as we're done talking about car sharing, we can talk about breeders, flock birds and all the excitement of poultry farming in central asia. >> let's talk about cars. you have four locations on college campuses. let's start with why college campuses? >> college campuses is a community that already exists. so when you're thinking about the access economy, one of the most essential elements of it is trust. so one of the advantages of going into a college and university environment is there's already a sense of affinity and trust

thank you guys for choosing to come out here and join us in our home city. we are proud that you are here. we are proud to be part of this city and a partner with you and we look for to achieving those goals you laid out. we talked about making energy personal for our customers. you have to make it personal for it to have an impact on your life, and there's probably no better example of that then the relationship you have an old power and the work you help do for our customers. i heard this morning the commission from thecpuc -- the cpuc was making a speech, and she was happy to get her report and had one smiley face and was committed to getting to two. that is one great example of making it personal. there is the work we do with social. we have the opportunity to engage people. we have a passion. we give them the information so they can help accomplish their goals. there is another aspect of this, which is really important, which i wanted to thank you all for. i have talked to a lot of our other customers, some of whom are less fortunate in terms of their i