we asked them to show us this city and their lives here. joel decides to interview dorian.but also america. i cannot decide. there are so many great tours. the opportunity to travel the world is one of the perks. do you like snow? yes, i do. there is no snow in malaysia. to me, it is something really special, joel says. he is a little bit sad that there has been no snow this christmas season. do you have your favorite place in vienna? sure.s not he definitely likes the christmas market. dorian is much more certain. my favorite place is home, he says. you can see the city hall there. up there is the -- there is the parliaments. --parliament. the building housing the vienna boys choir is no less medicine since it -- magnificent. they lived around 100 other choir members aged between nine and 14. this is our room, says dorian. they are just ordinary boys. the boys choir is keen to shaded shed its image of an elite group. there is a whole educational content behind singing in the choir. the part of the community is more important than being a gifted singer. the choir offers the

city's local hire policy. after careful consideration of this issue staff is proposing to apply the city's local hire policy on all construction work. this is the approach they would have used if the local hire policy had been in place at that time, but the city only adopted the policy in december 2010 and the agency didn't do any contracts for intrastructure work after that. this is the first one where they'll be applying this policy to one of its projects. the alternative, which we also considered would be to have the transportation authority require the selected contractor to enter into a construction work force agreement similar to what we typically require of our private developers when we do a disposition and development agreement. the differences between the two policies are described in your staff memorandum and i'll go through them again if i could get this on the overhead too. this table was in your staff memo and as you can see, it shows the differences between our construction work force agreements and the city's local hire policy. as you can see, while ocii's construction work force goal for other agreements is 50 percent of all project work hours, it is a goal

really provided us with a great foundation of information that is not just for health care planning, for health care services and for health improvement planning city-wide. we've used this tool to be the basis of our city-wide health improvement efforts and i can't thank you enough for giving us the impetus to do this comprehensive planning. >> thank you very much. and i don't know if roma guy would like to say a couple words. and, again, thank you for all the time and energy that you've put into this. >> yes, thank you very much, because i want to honor your leadership. it takes legislative leadership to make legislation happen. and as well as community, and you were a great partner. and you also partnered your colleagues. so -- and the planning commission and the planning department. this is a breakthrough in legislation because you have planning and health. and land use is related to health priorities. and, so, this is a true breakthrough. this is not just the regular stuff. so, i really appreciate your leadership, supervisor campos, and the risk taking that you took with it. and i just want to suggest that this was developed in anticipation of the, what we call obam

shopping along it and eating and enjoying themselves but now they have this free internet access use to it. also because it's such a diverse city use. it's over a quarter of a million people walk this corridor on an everyday basis. it has a huge diversity of population. it has small businesses, large businesses, as well as financial as well as restaurants all along the way, established and new. we wanted to signal this was part of that revitalization. i know supervisor wiener is very happy with this because he along with supervisor chiu has been asking to do more with communities of ethnic diverse backgrounds. this is a demonstration of what we can do in a major corridor. we have a vision that other corridors in other of our diverse communities can also benefit similarly as this will be. and again, it's the right way of doing it. it is the kind of public private partnership that we've been seeking with companies like ruckus wireless to help with us, dt will be maintaining it from here on to make sure it is accessible to everybody. like i said earlier, it's one that we will keep market street as something that department of tech

leaving sixteen people dead and dozens wounded stay with us here on r t as we get more information on what's happening in this city of volgograd we are in fact going to talk with alina she witnessed this latest blast in the city of volgograd thank you very much for talking with us during this very difficult time can you describe what you saw this morning. at the moment of the explosion i was asleep. because of an enormous blast to heard . glass shattering in the first to two stories of the building i saw. i looked out of the window it was still dark and they saw. the. ribs but blessed and people who were running away from it screaming some of them were wounded a lot of people were panicking running around this street. within a minute a police car and ambulances and fire engine drew up old the routine streets who were were closed nobody could do it. people got evacuated nobody could approach police keep moving looking for a bomb planted nearby this is all that they saw and it was a horrendous sight i was you scared. tell us please about this scene how how busy was the street when this blast happened or a lot of peo

city employees. they get to park free all day long all the time they want to. this used to be the city employees used to have parking over there in the parking lot. this just happened in the last 15 years when -- city hall is supposed to belong to me and i can't even park at city hall. i'm parking 2 or 3 blocks away. thank you very much. >> jim walkum. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i work, i have worked for the city for 37 1/2 years, i am now retired. i've almost forgotten about how disgruntled citizens can be about stuff but since i've retired now i am one of those disgruntled citizens. i think having looked at the -- i'm also the vice president of the franklin delano roosevelt democratic club. our president will kind of elucidate our position on this and mr. riskin and miss johnson are pretty familiar with my complaints so i will make a couple suggestions. one is to educate people about instead of spending $50,000 to send those rude people out to tell us we only have two minutes to talk, take some of that $50,000 and educate people who are parkin

this service. we picked the highest location of city and sites that reach the broadest parts of san francisco. and we used parts that use the most effective method. this is inside and outside city government on a creative solution to expand wifi across the city on our parks system. the cost of equipment and maintenance is provided by google as a generous grant to fund this with no strings attached. this is to benefit all of san francisco. google is a member of the advocate organization which is a leading voice for san francisco and is giving the gift to the city on behalf of one of it's members. the department of technology will accept and install the gift to make it available for the city. i'm proud of organizations to bring this wireless organization to residents of our city. this resolution will now make it's way through city process banged in -- back in front of the board of supervisors next year. the committee will authorize the installation by the department of technology which will start next spring and should start by next summer. colleagues, i appreciate your support. speaker: thank you superviso

apply to our city government and our day-to-day jobs as supervisors or people within different departments. >> and i would say i would want us to head in a direction when putting together this overall policy and one that would make us more efficient and one that will mating it easier to cross lines in various city departments and i'm really excited about this to tonight, really looking forward to the impacts of what happens with this, so i appreciate you taking the leadership and bringing it forward to us, thank you. >> thanks >> >> maybe somebody out there who's listening will develop an app for all of the things that supervisor breed would like to have happen. so, can we have a motion to accept the amendments? okay, any objections? amendments are passed. could we now have a motion to pass this item to the full board for recommendation, positive recommendation? okay, no objection. the motion is passed. thank you, supervisor farrell. [applause]. let's see. i believe, madam clerk, we would like to call an item out of order, if it's okay with my colleague, can you please call item number 8. >> item number 8 is a resolution appointing harlan l. kelly jr. for a four year term t

employee housing and work force housing is incredible for this city and using to work with school district employees and school district on different projects is a good point whether custodian or maintenance workers or safety workers and other measures have looked at. this is a great opportunity to address how land is used in the best interest of not only neighborhoods like the mission, but also for employee housing as well. thank you so much to olson lee and for you for bringing this great proposal forward. >> thank you, very much, mr. roads, we do go to your budget analyst. did we? i'm forgetting already. it's been a long afternoon. >> yes, mr. chairman, on page 9 of our report. the appraisal determined the 2013-2014 parcel e considered the vacant land would be $37.5 million if the parking lease was terminated such that an approximate 5 story mixed use lease. however as reported and given an agreement on the parcel, the development of potential of the property is minimized at it's present value to $4.6 million. as a result the $2.9 million difference between the market value without the

building is no exception it has solar and open rabble windows and it represents the history in this city. we use an integrated design approach in our project and we manage our building holistically. and indeed we help the workforce because their housed. and where else is the conversion of technology and art more prevalent than here per jobs was an volley ball for workplace and i believed that successful companies thrived oneself competition rather than waiting for someone to come up with products their world leadership was for the last 15 years. g s a is leading the transformation for the frig. we were the first agency to help simplify the procurement of the board rage of services and saving million dollars discolors for the taxpayer. we're rolling out a program to help with the collaborative workspace and g s a as a great sustainable ability and it's one of the few agrees to sustain green. here in region 9 we're in the lead in the g s a performance plan defining our 20/20 goals are through the supply chance and workforce transformation. we're working on the nicest to have our contractors to del

this on their own and that's reflective of some of the values that we have. that is important. making accessibility to everybody in the city is important to us as we roll out more and more of what i think is the connectivity for our future. now, having said this, i also want you to know that last year we signaled that our city would join on a national movement and when the fcc gave a mega bit challenge to the rest of the city. i happen to be the head of the task force innovation and technology for mayor's and we signaled our support for that challenge and also signaled our support for broadband and more internet connectivity for all over the country. we want to do this for every neighborhood as fast as we can because this will help education wise, small business wise and the more free and affordable it is, it will definitely help a lot of our communities with different economic levels to be connected so that they can be part of the 21st century. and then as we get the education, unions involved this will definitely help our job skills particularly for our kids in the future. i want to thank the department of intentional for their leadership

this was a tournament for inner-city youth. archery at golden gate park. our play grounds. here it is in use today. this is bernal heights park. you can still see the gutters they put in there. this is buena vista parks. this is quezar park. this is mount davidson. look out for the rock. this is on telegraph park. this is stern grove. this is a little known park above candle stick. here's my friend jake, standing by a wall. this was rosy play ground. they turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. i believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. and here's the murals inside the mother's building. the marina sea walls and great aquatic park. the palace of fine arts. we wouldn't have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. the berkeley rose garden. did it have to be this beautiful. finally, i'm going to wrap up. san francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. we have a fabulous collection of stuff here. there were four components. there was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics

used this season. san francisco officials kicked off a recycling event outside city hall this morning. dozens of christmas trees were put through a tree chipper. all the wood chippings will be reused. >> those wood chips can be used on all kinds of landscaping. they can also be used to turn into energy. >> firefighters are urging people to get their trees out as soon as they can. a lot of those trees are very dry. they can be a fire hazard. many bay area communities have curbside pickup. that's going to be starting next week. >>> today's also the first day of kwanzaa, the week long event celebrates black culture and tradition. they are called to focus on unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and health. >>> utility workers are busy repairing icing conditions in michigan. 140,000 people from michigan to maine are still in the dark right now following last weekend's massive storm. they need a break out there. >> they do. they are still chilly there. temperatures in the teens in many of those locations. i hear that those w

future medical uses seeking to open or expand in san francisco must show that they are meeting the health needs of the city before they receive any kind of land use approval. at the time this legislation was passed, the city was facing, if you may recall, pretty significant deficits, and we, in fact, did not have any money designated to fund this effort. and i am grateful to the department of public health and to the planning department for undertaking the very enormous effort in putting together a master plan without any additional funding. i want to especially thank and recognize director hes barbara garcia and john ram ~ for embracing this legislation and for directing their very talented staff to run a robust process to create the draft of this document. the group started the endeavor by forming a 41% task force, you know, san francisco way of doing it. 41% task force headed by dr. tomas arragon and rome a guy one of my incredible constituents who dedicated her time and energy ~ to make this happen. and this task force worked closely with both departments. it held 10 meetings between july 2011 and may 2012. more than a hundred san francisco residents provided input on

this city used to be known as stalingrad, and the shattered buildings a reminder of the defeat of the german army that changed the whole course of the world war ii conflict. today the people here have a much more elusive enemy. there is a feeling they have been let down by those who should have protected them. dennis is a local businessman. >> people are afraid -- people are afraid to use public transport. i'm frightened, and i'm afraid for my family and friends. >> reporter: they are stepping up security across southern russia, more than 30,000 troops will be deployed in the buildup to the winter olympics. >>> health experts are testing the air quality in north dakota after residents were forced to evacuate following a firey train cash. the accident happening about 25 miles west of fargo, north dakota. that collision, as you can see, setting off a series of explosions that burned a total of 21 rail cars. >> it was the third explosion that rattled the house and the windows and doors were all shaking. and we came out the garage door, and the flames were so high it was like it was right

culture, the architecture, the food, these are the same reasons people want to visit us, this makes us a world-class city and that's one of the curses. that's also a blessing because all those folks are getting into hotels and restaurants and they are spending money to stay here. they make references and those people spend money. i've worked with 3 different tour busses, we never have audible commentary, we would go around the a entire square and we went down hayes street. my 3 tour companies that i've worked for in the next year alone will bring 163 tours, 450,000 passengers who are all spending money in this city. they don't have time to get on local busses and get out here. i want to show them the most they can, they want to see the most they can. the residents have valid concerns but many of the companies such as ours are not stopping, not having open air commentary and not inhibiting the streets any more than normal traffic will. i don't want to change my city tour but i will because i think something has to be done and i think the healthy compromise is going to be option no. 2. >> next speaker, ple

it's going to take some time for us to big ourselves out of this predicament city wide. so what i would ask is there be some gain in terms of dealing with the time frame that is involved to deal with the magnitude. i'm hopeful between the lighting demonstration project projects -- blooith issues, every neighborhood will see some improvement. >>> that's kevyn orr the emergency manager in detroit. the man responsible for this city filing for bankruptcy. he was also discussing the dire financial straights that that city is in. let's go back to bisi onile-ere who has been following the story from detroit. i guess my question is what is the next step? >> i can tell you that the hearing wrapped up shortly ago, and that's it for the day. i am told that the bankruptcy proceedings will move forward. the emergency manager has until march to submit a restructuring plan to the judge. but they are on a fast track. so i'm told he is planning to have that into the judge as early as this month. >> yes, he did say definitely by the end of the year. all right. bisi onile-ere reporting fro

on this issue of ending veteran homelessness, not only in phoenix, but in salt lake, a leading city on this issue and some of the other cities you mentioned, the president challenged all of usn this issue and cities have responded across the country. we know it's going to be tougher to get federal resources, but because we have a system that works and we can prove it works, now we can tap the business community, now we can tap the foundations and say we've got a model that works. let's do right by all of our citizens. let's end chronic homelessness in the united states of america. let's start with veterans and then move on to the broader population. >> phoenix mayor greg stanton, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> i wasn't out in the world looking for a good news story to tell, but given what you have done in phoenix today, i feel like it's my christmas miracle. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >>> in the words of one 5-year-old child of one "rachel maddow show" producer, christmas is only two sleeps away, which is true. and just one more sleep after that, we have a special gift for you. no opening until the big day comes, but we do have a little

. >> and actually, this precipitated by the forest city, in the event that forest city, well, let me back it up with regard to this lease, initially forest city gave us phasing projections for the entire area, and so initially we are looking for a ten-year lease on this site. and then, they looked at it more closely and then, said, five and a five now, it is 58 months and five, one year options and due to their proposed development, they want to have the flexibility to say, we don't need all of it, we may need a portion of it, so that we want to, reduce it, and have you move off of the site. and so that it will not impair the development, but yet, still allow the port to have a revenue stream until all of the lease area is acquired by forest city. >> yeah, i understand that, with as the forest city is going to be ongoing there for ten years. and but, the other part of that paragraph is that it is essentially saying that when they move or have to move, they will get a space somewhere on the port. somewhere on the port property or in other words, they are guaranteed a space. >> they are not guaranteed. >> they are saying that we will look for the avail

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not only bicycling advocates but the vast majority of the people in the city as well and we are looking at this report that compares us to other cities and if we like to think of ourselves as a bicycle city and seattle and portlandia and even minneapolis put us to shame and i hope we put our money where our mouth is by the end of this hearing and follow up as well. we spend less per citizen versus these cities and this is all in spietd of the fact that biking as a mode share is greater here than those cities and many cities throughout the country. this year we suffered and felt the consequences of inaction as a city with bicycling and many deaths and emily's death and others that we know about dangerous and not just soma but in the city and young professionals that have perished and to eldr elders as well and i think there is a more imperative and many advocated this and make the city safer for bicycling and other modes of transportation as well. also bicycling needs to be safe for families to feel comfortable to bike in the city as well so that's a goal. the responsibility to fund the bicycling infrastructure really

this immense empty factory. cities in this factory was built to use and consume electricity from the anger. yet we knew very well that when they were building this factory the raw material they were going to use was scrap iron and rusty iron gathered in europe which is unacceptable given what we know the country's potential in terms of minerals is. in effect the situation is ridiculous underground particularly in katanga the minerals of dug up to be exported eight thousand kilometers away and smelted. then used to make steel in the northern countries to make vehicles and machines and with these vehicles all machines end up on the scrap heap they are compacted and shipped in a boat to my time in the congo. which causes the river to rise if you were to. go on the food this scrap metal is then melted in to create refined steel. it's completely ridiculous. so never worked it was money down the drain just a waste but not for the multinationals which one yet multinational sold their technology it is the congolese people who are losing out today. and all the wealth is being controlled because of t

leave and god the way she wanted us to live was to love everybody we thank you for this building and this building represent what mary studio for god please bless us and the city we still have more needs many things are happening in our communities today that people need to all work together. goad let's celebrate and god you blessed this city in so many ways. we've got people coming all over the world let's continue to work properly. amino and we have a lot of african-american clergy and we're going to introduce now michael johnson with urban core. come on michael (clappin (clapping.) i have a few prepared remarks you know the rooerdz are able to a.d. live but i've got to write my stuff down so i can be clear. so i want to thank you all for coming out today to celebrate the grand opening of the mary rogers senior center. i was home last time and before i went to bed i was trying to put together the words to say. i thought about it for the last several months. and i decided to frame it with a couple of points of history in my life. the first thing when i i was a teenager and attended a career day in philadelphia and learned with r what an architect does. i real

us up to this point. i believe that the aquarium and the bay institute and city college of san francisco has the expertise, the resources necessary in order to use this amazing resource eco center at the her responses park and give the great science education to the people in east eastern san francisco. during the program i've worked tirelessly to increase our presence by working with our close relationship with the school district and other inform institutions to provide teachers and family event focusing on science and sponsoring classrooms to have live trout in their classrooms an amazing program run by the wife horrify wildlife. we'll continue to provide this to neighborhoods that have been denied access to it. (calling names). so arcadia then margaret >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm martha and i'm the faculty in the graduate department at the john fy censured institute we're in support of the conditional san francisco proposal. one of the reasons for that is the course that i teach at the john f. kennedy university is taught and my intention is to bring my students here in the spring to help the

this an exclusive interview you will see only here. senator rand paul joins us from the motor city. tell us what your plan consists of. >> this is a free market plan to rescue detroit. weapon don't rescue detroit by taking money from houston or atlanta. we rescue detroit by leaving more money in detroit. what we've devised a plan that would dramatically lower taxes in detroit, bring the corporate income tax down to five percent, the personal income tax down to five percent, make the capital gains tax zero, take the payroll tax and bring it down for the employee and the employer. without bringing any new money to detroit, just leaving money in detroit is over a billion dollars that would stimulate detroit's economy. >> basically a flat tax but flat nonetheless. >> absolutely. flat and very low. we also look at regulations and try to get rid of the owner's regulations that's making it expensive for city government and for businesses to locate in detroit. we think if you combine all of this, that it would be the model for how you would rescue cities across the country but any impoverish

. >> the fact that we've been identified by the fbi as a hub is very disturbing to all of us in this cityand even though we do have budget challenges, we have made it a priority to, you know, get out there and run these operations on a weekly basis. >> we just kind of combine resources to get by. >> sergeant jim saleda is a veteran cop with some 20 years working the streets of oakland. >> every major city has a place where the girls can be found. >> in oakland many of the girls can be found here, on a desperate two-mile stretch of international boulevard known simply as the track. >> she's getting in. mark, he's going to go eastbound. >> the track's an area known for prostitutes to ply their trade. customers know to go there to get certain types of girls. >> female, black, long braids. >> i've seen them as young as 12 years old. >> all right. let's get it going, sammy. >> sergeant roland holmgren commands a tactical unit recently charged with cleaning up the track. >> imagine if it was somebody who you cared about, who was forced into that type of lifestyle. and then imagine if that was y