over to the 10 plus yearses we have compiled a list of surfaces that are splitted to us or the city used in various projects that do comply. that -- >> including epoxy coated paint. >> those are specifics in the downtown areas. you have the old sidewalks where you are walking on the ceiling of the basement below laurence mentioned earlier. a lot of times wear and tear, weather. alot of property owners will experience leaking, rainwater leaking to the basement causing health problems maintenance problems et cetera. once every 2 years what they do is take one of the polyurethane coatings with a paint brush or roller and over the sidewalk and tell be like a waterproofing sealant it lasts for a year or 2 depending on the weather. we recommend that they redo it properly under the current codes where they redue the structural slab and have a 3-1/2 inch concrete topping slab on top. if the sidewalk breaks ever in the future you don't have to go to the replace the stushthureal slab. >> we are talking about slip resistance when they put the coating on top they have to use the right slip resistant

or the plan for what that money is going to be used for. where is our taxpayer money being used? these are services that should already be in the city budget. we should not have to use bond money or extra taxes to pay for them. we are being asked to pay, we are being asked to pay tra taxes while tweeter receives a tax break. hidden in the tax break deal for twitter was also their own muni bus that went directly just to their location as well as a police substation in their area. those services are paid for with taxpayer money. tax payers are required to foot the bill for this, although twitter has enough money where it could also contribute something to the community for helping us provide those services in that area. in district five, i believe that there are three main areas that need a lot of attention but i would like to work on. we need affordable housing, not just low-income housing but

of regulatory and legal issues and we have the city were attorney asking questions for us and but there might be something else for us to roll something out or the ways we actually use the government dollars and programs that offer loans to small businesses or community organizations to do work in the city and i think it's worth exploring what the context is we're in now to something that could be in place later, so i wanted to throw that out there that jason could be helpful for that effort. >> commissioners, any thoughts on that before we turn to public comment? >> i think it's a great idea to do that and i think it's something that lafco could definitely be very helpful o the one suggestion i would have which is in addition to this is that even as that work begins i would like to schedule as an agenda item a work land for lafco or at least a work plan for the coming year so we as a commission can have a discussion about what -- besides overseeing the implementation of caa working on this municipal bank, what other things we want to tackle, and i think by the time that we have that agenda item and have that discussion each of you will have

acceptable working conditions for the teamsters that work there or for the public that it serves, they're not commissions that i think any of us would find acceptable for any city employees or other employees. the timeline to find new space for an operation this size, this large, we have a 12 month notice period and our mou with the port, it's taken us 14 months to get here on this particular lease, and finally, as i think you heard last time, the total inventory of spaces available in san francisco and surroundings of this type are very, very limited and the type that are available are virtually 0, the real estate market is not getting softer as time goes on, prices are going up, so we don't see that we have an alternative, the fact that we're able to potentially with the board of supervisor's approval be able to execute this lease and make this move happen with only three months of overlap between the old lease and the new leases i think phenomenal, it's very good, and while, you know, we can all kind of wish in hindsight that we had struck right at the right time and we're able to have purchased this property that didn't happen, that there's not that opportu

are you on the record saying there is no other site that the sfmta can use in daly city or the peninsula but this one? this is the only site that we can do this type of lease with. >> i would say at this point probably yes. >> at this point but not over the next two years. can you say that over the next two years? >> no one can guarantee what properties will come available down the road. as a broker for 30 years i can tell you if a property did become available in the next couple years, it would not be priced less. there would be -- there would probably be a ten to one ratio of people who want to buy it. if it is a land site there's a higher and better use than industrial. if it really an industrial site -- >> i'm assuming that this is zoned industrial, why it is not use ford higher value. you know the pdr in san francisco, i'm sure they would love for us to rezone it * for mixed use. this is where planning comes in, in terms of not every property owner can build to their highest value because we have a planning code. >> true. i understand. zoning is usually the lowest level on the map.

use the term, one of the safest big cities. we are officers on the street. when i'm face to face with you helping you with your crime problem or whatever you called us for and calls are coming over and we'll say pending, person calling for help. it's very difficult. the reality is that we cannot service the people as they deserve right now. and without more officers, i don't know how to do it. i understand that there's 100 officers in the wings. what i would also say is we did an internal survey. i don't mean we, the poa. i mean, we, the police department. in that survey, it indicated that about half of the department took it. almost 50% said that -- actually, 68% said that they would leave the department by lateraling or retiring in the next five years and half of the membership took it. the other part said 40% already had applications in. they just may not be in the background process. we could be on the verge of losing 300 officers. i don't know how we police the city of a million with 700. your reaction to that? >> i don't think the police department is big enough today on authorize the strength or actual strength and losi

tell us what existing city initiatives -- you know, this -- the schering economy working group will interface with or connect with, and how does it fit in with existing strategic goals and plans of the city? >> i think our director of environment in our city has issued a goal for 2020, being mission -- emission free, carbon neutral. that is something that when you think about the economic impact of these new business models, it can contribute quite greatly to that. i am going to answer the question a little bit differently -- i have been inspired by this space considerably. there's a lot more opportunity. cars, so many assets we have in our society. as a city, we own buildings, cubicles, museums, golf courses, so much that we have -- >> yes, but it is our property, right? >> yes. that is a very good point. stewards of these resources, and they are often underutilized resources, so how do we improve access to those? there is a lot to learn from this that could be applied to the public comments. >> thank you. let's open it up. do we have a microphone for people to come to? ok, we will just it old schoo

uses. bicyclists are not charged for the privilege of using or parking on public roadways. mr. davis, mr. everett and miss selby should the city assess fees on bicycle owners to pay for transportation improvements? >> i don't think so and i will tell you why because the city is moving in a direction that i think they should be which is encouraging more people to get out of their cars and to get onto bikes and to use our streets and walk the streets. you know, i think we need to be visionary about getting and meeting our goals. we have a goal of 20% of all trips in san francisco being taken on a bike by 2020. the bike coalition, which is one of my endorsements, as well district 5 group have been advocating for this connecting the city plan, the bike coalition for cross town bikeways to make our streets safer for bike riders. i think we need to move more in that direction and assessing fees on bike riders for ridion bikes is san francisco is not going to work towards the goal we have in the city now. >> thank you, mr. everett? >> i don't -- certainly i want to protect the right of people to own and park vehicles here in the city

out the exposure of the city there would be in terms of cash 2.4 million dollars that would need to be put into the cash collateral or escrow immediately that may or may not be used. also another $1 million the city would have to come up with in terms of paying the premium on the $5 million insurance policy that the organizing committee will obtain. these are in the budget, are general fund moneys and reimbursable by america's cup organizing committee. if the cash collateral were to be drawn down in case the city couldn't meet its obligations or if there were additional funds, the additional 2.4 million during the event, those moneys are supposed to be reimbursable by the america's cup organizing committee. but as we said in our earlier report in march the availability of those funds is not certain. there was a discussion of fundraising. it is short of the $32 million that was originally considered. the city's been paid in full through june. we don't know about the august payments, so we do consider this to be a policy matter for the board because of the uptick in the funds. >> thank you. supervisor avalos? >> thank you, just followups for the budget analyst or m

us. the 20 best cities for trick-or- treating. the best city for trick-or- treating is san francisco.baltimore cayman 20th on the list -- baltimore came in 20 if list. listh on the at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 20 is not bad. the yankees have yet to win a game since beating the orioles. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. a few problems in the past few minutes. we start on 95 northbound at 1 00, word of an accident. delays building on the west side outer loop and southbound 83 at middletown road. 56 on southbound 95 coming down from the white marsh area. 13 minutes is your out of the drive time on the west side. five minutes on southbound 95 from the 895 split to the fort mchenry. this is 95 at 895. you can see the right lane closure because of an accident. another accident northbound 95 at 100. this is northbound traffic. no sign of any significant delays. we will keep you po

rise in purchasing power and consumption and the poverty of those who search through it daily for something to use or sell. after immigrants arrive in the citythey have to struggle for jobs and housing. on the outskirts of istanbul, sultanbeyli was a small village in 1980. now it's a city of over 200,000. many are immigrants living in self-constructed housing. it's a good place to see the relationship between economics and religion and tha decade ago,rtunes s the fundamentalist welfare party gained many supporters, including these two brothers. ( speaking turkish ) translator: the welfare party supports the citizens. ( other brother speaking ) translator: in the beginning, we could build here without paying taxes. narrator: like millions of people in istanbul, they have very low incomes, surviving as day laborers or through marginal trade. although religion was important, the welfare party also tried to address economic issues, working at the grassroots level to help people with their everyday problems. others, like many inner-city shopkeepers and tradespeople, regret the lack of traditional values in modern turkish society. for them, the fu

a good but the money instead of in wells fargo or whatever, a private commercial bank, into a bank that is owned by us, and that the interest goes into city treasury, and we extend credit to ourselves. there's really innovative things that are happening, and that our public banking laws being lodged in a number of -- i think it is, like, 13 states right now. very innovative things happening. in the back. >> there are a lot of assets you are sharing that are really great at the grassroots level and bottom-up, but there are also things that are done the need to be shared such as public transit that cannot be done bottom-up and have to be done top down. i wonder is there a way a sharing economy can create those projects, or do we have to rely on residual benefits of bottom- up activity like reducing car use? >> the question is -- there are a lot of grassroots bottom-up activity, sharing resources, but there are also opportunities to take macro approaches like public transportation, for instance, and how we can get some of those opportunities going. >> i will take this. i think that is a really good question. i think there is a role both bott

nonexistent most are sprawled across the steep hills surrounding caracas but for people living up in those longs or barrios there used to be no way to get down to the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills you see about an hour in the house used to be no public transportation until present to a good job is built these cable cars a literal lifeline for venezuela's poor life in the slums may have improved but the country still has a long way to go voters have grown frustrated with declining wages and scarce job prospects and reversing these trends in the next six years won't be easy. venezuela while those who work in journalism usually try to stay out of the news but in this case the news concerns journalism itself today about three hundred unionized new york times employees walked off their job a ten minute walk out was in protest to contract negotiations with the paper's executives management wants to cut retirement contributions and signed print and digital workers to separate contracts but the newspaper guild of new york at the times were jacks to reduce compensation they said it will cause competitors to hire away the paper

communication in and outside the city has been hampered it took us several days to make contact with people inside the besieged city and they told us that these army forces were manning or the entrances and exits to and from this despite the fact that thousands of people have fled to neighboring sites and refugee camps we have managed to make contact with and he's asked us to hide his identity because he is afraid for his family who are still inside. he tells us that the army is pushing back you also says quite alarmingly that he hasn't heard from his family for several days and he's incredibly fearful as to the fate of militias after. the fighting. from the from from the city. the militias. they were taken to the. old man in his. doesn't have an ego. just a council member people. really big on the first. i think about. the from the militias. to be. six hundred from the militias on the wilds of the newly the along the street of the middle of the city i'm barely touched me ever since the violence started some three weeks ago residents of bani walid has been appealing to the international community for assistance moscow took up the school by drafting a statement that it p

nonexistent most sprawled across the steep hills surrounding caracas lots of people living up in those longs or barrios there used to be no way to get down to the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills you think about an hour and how they used to be no public transportation until president bush has built these cable cars a little lifeline for venezuela's for life in the slums may have improved but the country still has a long way to go voters have grown frustrated with the declining wages and scarce job prospects and reversing these trends in the next six years won't be easy. venezuela. posting all the latest news and photos for us on twitter so you can follow the latest updates on what she is calling the venezuelan election after party. well as war looms between turkey and syria now after five days of mutual shelling. from the syrian side and now there's a new problem on the horizon for the code of separatists reportedly setting up their own army just across the border in syria. middle east correspondent paula. that said he doesn't seem as if the border tension is easing at all what we've witnessed now is five days of inc

nonexistent most are sprawled across the steep hills surrounding caracas for people living up in those longs or barrios that used to be no way to get down to the city to find work or go to school simply walking down those hills you think about an hour and how they used to be no public transportation. no but john has built these cable cars a little lifeline for venezuela's for life in the slums made them proved but the country still has a long way to go voters have grown frustrated with declining wages and scarce job prospects and reversing these trends in the next six years won't be easy to see catherine of. venezuela. respond list of is posting all the latest news and photos for us on twitter so follow her feed there for the latest updates on venezuela's presidential election. conflicting reports from the front lines in syria claim both the rebels and the governments have made advances in flashpoint battles across the country more than one hundred people have reportedly been killed in the past twenty four hours this comes as turkey and syria are closer to war as anger returned fire after being hit by another shell from across the rebel controlled

and noon today, so keep that in mind, especially if you're waking up with us along the peninsula or in the cityo. 65 degrees there today, 70 isn't san jose, and you just can't beat 72 degrees out in livermore. we have a better chance for showers across the greater bay area tomorrow. we will take you through that forecast coming up in just a few moments. first we want to check your drive. back to work monday, mike. >> this is 101 northbound looking latter. i'll show you where it is on the map just north of 680. we'll focus on the approach where we do have one accident reported blocking your slow lane, north 101 at capital expressway and you see a little slowing there. we do see general slowing as more folks hit the roads. i'll let you know if that is due to that lane being blocked. a quick look farther north and we'll look at 880 through fremont. northbound away from tesla and toward the truck scales, an easy flow up into oakland. aploeproaching the bay bridge, slowing down the east show freeway or off of the maze. look at that crystal clear view. >>> 5:26. you knew it was going to happen. "satu