what is before us today is a short-term, let's just keep the government open two weeks, so we use that time to do the right thing. to use that time to have a reality check, a reality check on how we got these deficits in the first place and how tax cuts at the highest end that do not create jobs but increase the deficit are not the appropriate path to deficit reduction. how cutting education and therefore the innovation that goes wit and the strength of our children and our economy is afingted is not the way to do it. many people here have met much experience on the way to do it and they sit on both sides of the aisle. let's get through this today, recognizing the challenge that we have, understanding that this bill before us is not a good one, but it's not final. and recognizing that when we come together, we meet the three criteria, does it create jobs, does it strengthen the middle class, does it reduce the deficit? because all of those who say that it's immoral for us to grow the deficit and pass those bills on to our children and grandchildren are right. i just don't want them to ignore the

they want us to work together to keep government open. they want us to do so in a way that continues the economic recovery, and that does not undermine education and the future for our children. we all have to work together. it is about finding common ground. we want to find the common ground on the high ground of the better future of arkla children. we have a history of working in a bipartisan way. when president bush was president, we work together to put a stimulus package which was largely to his liking even though there was a democratic house and senate. largely to the president's likely. he wanted tax cuts. we largely ended up with tax cuts and no in for structure. we were able to do a good job for the american people working together, cooperating with president bush. a year later talks when the financial crisis descended upon us, we saw the administration come to this congress in september and tell us, the dismal state of this financial and economic situation in our country, that the chairman bernanke told us that night, that if we did not act immedi

i had a conversation about this, about technology and what it is doing to us. i don't want to color the question anymore. there are those concerned about technology. twitter, a part of that. what is it doing to our brains, our social interaction, our family time, face-to-face time. what is twitter doing to us, for us, with us, against us? you tell me . >> well, i think this is a bigger question. i think society is figuring out the best way to use these tools to enhance our lives and make us smarter and more efficient to better be able to do these things. i'm overwhelmed by things like email. we designed twitter to have a different set of expectations. when people tweet replies to you it is not expected you reply back to you to them. it is only a gift if you do but not expected. if you remove the stress of answering all the questions in your indocks or the tasks, the -- inboment box. whenever you want to find something going on in the world, events that are most interesting to you, you do that several times per day but you don't get completely sucked into twitter

to that, but i do not know for sure. i think it is proper to maybe do an investigation using this grant money, to see how much actual pornography flows through the city's best computer system during the workday. my main interest is not only on pornography, but also to highlight the federal law enforcement efforts on the very sensitive subject of child pornography. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. ok, the item is in and of the committee. do we have a motion? motion to send the item forward with recommendations. without objection. item to police. >> ordinance amending chapter 10 of the san francisco administrative code by amending sections 10.177-2 and 10.177-3 authorizing the assessor to recommend rewards for information related to the detection of underpayment of tax owed to the city and county of san francisco. >> our assessor phil ting is with us today. why don't i invite david chiu to speak. he is a sponsor of the legislation. >> thank you. this legislation we have in front of us is the reauthorization of the

when i say, they used to do it, how long have they been harvesting jojoba? as long as it's been alive, i believe. >> thousands of years. >> i believe so. we know the native americans, they used it to make bread, they used the oil for their hair. they made coffee with the meal after they pressed it, and they also would take jojoba seed, which contains simmondsin, which is an appetite suppressant so when they went from blythe to coachella, they would eat these seeds, because on the 100-mile trek, instead take food that would-- the animals would wanna get, or whatever, you know. >> can you eat one of these? >> this has got the skin on it, right? >> uh-huh. >> and so we got a machine that will break and blow that off-- >> now, can i eat this? >> --and it's ready to go, >> what does that taste like? >> tastes like maybe a hazelnut, little bit bitter, very hard. >> but, the native americans ate these. >> absolutely. >> i've never heard of eating jojoba before. >> man, you've gotta get-- get up to speed on this one. >> wow, i'm getting up to speed, i'm trying. i ju

we just thought we would do whatever you tell us to do. we'll put some money notices of violation on the house. i would gladly tomorrow repair the house. but just let us do it. she will not let us do it. the dormers we might have to remove -- we know it was built 25 years ago because she attracted and states it was 25 years ago. i did not even live in america 25 years ago. if i knew then what i knew now, i would not have touched the house with a barge pole. i naively saw the house next door, an identical house with a third floor addition. why was i to assume that i with -- that the same criteria would not apply to my house? when i assume as a homeowner -- every other house on our block has in addition. the historic house next door to us. why would i assume my home would be any different? the only reason is different is because ms. wuerfel chooses it is different. i will do anything you tell me to do. i want a roof over my children's heads. i no longer want an extension. i would move out of that house tomorrow, but nobody would buy that hous

all that is left to us to do is to hope that we are dealing with someone who is honorable, and we have no reason to think he is anything but honorable, and will do just what he said here. as for jurisdiction request, i would be inclined, with the others who have already commented, to not grant jurisdiction. >> i don't have anything to add. commissioner hwang: the timing of the notice and the change of ownership makes for a sympathetic set of circumstances. for that reason, i would be inclined to grant the request for jurisdiction. but, i will probably be shot down here. commissioner fung: i would make a last comment that there was a time period of about a month in which the appellant could have and did not. i think that is what is going to sway me. >> is their emotion, commissioners? commissioner fung: i move to not grant jurisdiction. >> on that motion to deny the jurisdiction request -- commissioner garcia: aye. commissioner peterson: aye. commissioner hwang: no. 4 >> -2 -- >> 4-2. >> 4-1. >> correct. my apologies. item five, appeal number 11-011, dean preston, appellant, verses the

jobs now allowed us to do that on a fairly large scale. we were able to get 4000 people placed in a program. we have much skinnier versions of that. without federal money or other resources, i do not see how we can generate the dollar investment. supervisor avalos: it is not likely that many employers are going to hire people coming out of the system on their own accord unless there is already some engagement with government or non-profit on behalf of government that has created a program or sector that encourages this level of employment. >> especially if they are identified as such. one of the big things in the debate around the legislation is how much you want to label the job seeker. it is a mixed bag. you want to hthe person to have the opportunity but do not want to stigmatize them to the employer. that is where i grapple with the best way to go about it. an employer to hire some one based more on their skill set them who they are -- than who they are or what their background is. that continues to be a debate in the industry. incentiv

to do. i would encourage you to continue to do what you have to do to work collaboratively with us and the other sister agencies and the community. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor campos: if i may ask the director of the department of children, youth and their families -- thank you for being here. i also want to reiterate my thanks to the mayor for his interest in this and for moving so quickly to make sure that all of the city resources were made available to expedite the implementation of this. thank you and welcome to the committee. >> good afternoon, members of the committee. i fully support this resolution. i am here to avail myself to work with mr. r metro -- armitraud, the youth commission, and ms. martison to develop a discounted past delivery system for next year that is going to be streamlined, sensitive to the needs of our youth and families , and something that is administratively sound and sustainable. winter -- we participated in this process closer to the end of this process, after many months of conversation between the school district, mta, and members

of all the great things there are to do, but we have to push back on this kind of hysteria on crime, and it takes leadership to do it -- it takes individuals, all of us, to do it as well, to put pressure on leaders, but it takes real leadership to do that. that is how i would put it together all in one place. >> in the vein of what is hopeful, and there is a reentry coordinating council in san francisco and also one in alameda county. what has been helpful to me is i think that overwhelmingly, we have this being tough on crime problem as opposed to being smart on crime, but i think that even in places where you would not expect it, people are starting to make the connection. for example, a lieutenant from the sheriff's department in alameda county is one of the most consistent and supported participants

it is difficult for us to do an assessment. we would like to design routes to support parties and we are going to reduce costs. we will be serving 33 elementary schools. we are trying to have an >> process so we know which students are using the bus service. all will attend affiant those which are lined in 2013. we want to minimize the impact on the students for the coming fall, 2011 we wanted to minimize the impact on the families in terms of transportation. we did not want to go and change any school times or morning start times, we wanted to avoid that. this is what we are exploring, which schools will lose service by 2013 that they currently have. we have many that only have a handful of students that are writing. we want to make sure that students in the low test score areas, they are served and have access to a good number of schools. we want to make sure that there are students who are accessing our bus service to get to after- school programs. and there are some areas that have a few riders. we had to look at services to

will be reporting back to the federal government and also will be indicators of people's adoption and their use and interest. it is a flexible program. people will be able to do any range of training, depending on their particular capability and interests are. in supportive housing, they will be focusing on supportive employment, ways that people can use computers to be able to get back into the workforce. at adult day health care, we will be working more with the kind of accessible technology will help people to connect with resources and also learn to do things that will help be helpful to them in other ways, and to break the isolation barrier. with the national council of aging, we will be doing a pilot program to develop a site that continues the help aid programs we are doing in the city. that will include such things as a peer to peer discussion group that will be monitored by master traders and chronic disease, health management, and other resources we will be developing in five languages, at least. streaming video of different health promotion programs. we will be putting that on the website and will make it available nationally. we are working closel

to play the blame game and see the fault in others. the cbo's aren't doing they are supposed to. no it's the police's fault. it's city haul's fault. but in the end. that gets us nowhere. we can never truly work together unless we stop assigning blame. the second thing we must do. we must be open to the possibility there's a better way to do things. too often as i sat through discussions ask encountered reluctance to change. i would ask you if we have things figured out. are children safe in schools? would we be here in our streets were safe? as i already said, i am not here to point fingers at anybody. if you are not part of the solution. then you are part of the problem. the other thing we have to be willing to do is check our egoes at the door and listen to each other. there are a lot of folks who love to hear themselves talk. but people who need to listen to what others say. working together means listening to each other and not taking credit. we have to have faith in each other. i know it is difficult. i know there's a lot of history and disappointment much we have to start to believe in one another again. i have seen too many times when we project to oth

first, this park is named after his son, who was tragically taken from us to do to violence. he was a star athlete at balboa high school. he was in the process of being hired by recreation and parks. out of that tragedy, this very setting reminds us that we need to look after each other. i would like to thank supervisor avalos, the author of this legislation, supervisor campos, a strong supporter of this legislation. the director of city build, the many department heads that were impacted by this legislation, the head of sfmta, the head of the human rights commission, the head of the office of labor standards, the head of the recreation department, and more. i would like to thank local 261, josh, vince, pam, and all the city build students who are with us today. mayor lee. mayor lee came into office and reaffirmed his commitment to looking after the great people who live in our city. one of his top priorities is to stimulate the local economy with jobs and he has empowered me with implementing the new local higher policy. i promised that i would not focus on the process, but o

used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility

understanding of local and watershed products and continue to do model reliable sets garbage in and garbage out projects and it's incumbent on us to do that. the academic is doing a lot of work but we need a local handle on our information. the current models are not as reliable for precipitation as they are for global. if we saw precipitation events it would change the consumption patterns considerably and the need for future supply capacity. until we understand whether or not that's a real possibility it's hard for us to make capitol investment decisions. finally, we need models that address increasing complex models and we have multiple systems and portland we have a hydro facility on both our damages and we're planning and are in the process for providing fish flows. other systems dealing with navigation and the whole, gamut of things that go on we need models to address that level of complexity. that's it for me i look forward to our on going conversation. [applause] >> good morning., jarrod said in his introduction that this panel was going to talk about how we're planing for the worst and how we're planning for disasters

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to help me out. that is right in their box. for us, the capacity for us to do the smaller side is not there as much as it is for them. on getting a loan through my side of the bank, i do not require an account to do that. we would like to have it, but i do not require it. >> last question for the opportunity fund and a critic representative. are you a cdfi? is san francisco and s.p.a. in support of cdfi's being established in san francisco? >> yes, we are. we were founded in 1999 with a small business loan. that is how we started our tenderloin office. >> opportunity fund is a certified cdfi, so we are providing a benefit to low and moderate-income communities. he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a program for r -- will be the case by the summer. let me get one last point and on the question about relationships to lenders. the question was, do have to have an account with a bank in order to get a loan? may

more electricity, use gravity and other things to do what we have to do. unfortunately now that we have this climate change problem and rising tides and so on, it kind of turns us around where one sort of solution that you just think of is more pumps, but how is that becoming more sustainable? i don't really know what the answer is yet and i think that's why we, you know, convene summits like this. i think all of us are going to be facing very similar kinds of situations and it's the kind of thing we all need to think through together and figure out how to resolve. so to recap, the specific problem from a utility management point of view that we face in the near future is the notion of salt water back flowing into our current sewage system. this will basically cause our treatment systems to fail catastrophically. we will have for large periods of time sewers that are completely full, which will not allow drainage to happen in a consistent way. having said that, i think there is a way we can resolve the problem in the immediate future. i

>> i think so. >> i would urge you to give us permission for us to do something rather than tell us how to do it. >> what about obamacare, when you're talking of saving cost, $50 billion of savings if we would move on tort reform, lowering costs, $50 billion could have gone to take the expensive costs of promoting. what tort reform be a good way to halt on the cost? governor herbert? >> absolutely. >> and a patrick? >> in the bill i referred to earlier which is the next phase of health care reform we have concluded the tort reform, yes. >> my first year as a finer we passed the most comprehensive reform. it doesn't just cut the cost, it proves the quality care because we have doctors leaving to get away from the lawsuit abuse and so it is more than the cost. >> my next question on the federal law, we give the federal qualified health clinics, we give them protection. if we are providing health care medicaid dollars, federal dollars, if we provide federal -- i mean, federal tort claims act for practitioners who are receiving federal dollars with the help drive down the cost? >> i don't k

to use this forum to engage in a more robust discussion about journalism. i think it is something both the public and our members are eager for us to do. i am grateful that our guest speaker has agreed to grace our podium once again today. please give a warm welcome to vivian schiller. [applause] i want to begin by reading an e- mail from and npr reporter. we basically pushed away end. we walked across the border and were incredibly lucky to find people to drive us and guide us. yes, we had an unfortunate incident at an army base for people were nervous about being photographed. we were surrounded and the photographer had his camera smashed. but that has proven to be the exception. everywhere else we have gone, we have been greeted with cheers and shouts. this is a country that has not been exposed to western media. everyone just said they were so relieved to see us, at they were desperate to have their story told. the first meeting of the new local government was being held. everyone was stunned to see us. they gave us a standing ovation and started shouting and crying. i know it is corny, she writes, but i've never been prouder to be

i used to do tours in philadelphia, and our route was similar in scope to our route in golden gate park. in philadelphia, we also had mixed use trails and it included about half a mile bicycle trails, and also, the area of around both house road, which is a congested pedestrian area, and i'm not sure exactly how many tours i gave, but i would estimate of around 500, and we never had any incidents with collisions with pedestrians or anything like that. having come out here and started working with these guys, i can say that the people who go out here are much better prepared to use the segway. they have a higher degree of competency after the training they go through, which is very formal and standardized. also, i want to point out that i believe the no bike signs are actually surrounding an area that has bite jumps and stuffed -- bike jumps and stuff that i think were built surreptitiously. also, my time in working in the park, it has been about 40 days, and i have had several employees and staff -- they have all really enjoyed it and express their thanks that we are sort of giving peop

they primarily have to do with dust containment, with the types of vehicles that are used, the primary source of construction emissions, contrary to popular perception are the vehicles that are used. supervisor avalos: are commutes into the area also what of what you want to insure >> they're an area of the collation. supervisor avalos: is there any amount of using local hires to be part of projects? >> it could be something that was required. it's not assumed here. supervisor avalos: a mitigating measure that was prosed and the e.i.r. -- >> not assumed here, no. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: yes. a couple of things. from what i'm hearing it's fair to say that there are variables in the future in this project, is that right? >> yes. supervisor wiener: is there any significant or large project that you can think of where at the time of the e.i.r. there were absolutely no variables? >> no. supervisor wiener: and the ceqa require that there be no variables in the future? >> ceqa requires the best phase effort that you can make in terms of making as

to us. there is always a way out. you do not have to be stopped, and you can get the services here today, but you can also get them every day. a life can be changed. you are part of that great opportunity. you are going to be part of that direct opportunity to talk with someone, to give them resourced, f, hopefully, they will receive that with the amount of care and the amount of compassion that you have. so i want to just say to the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for volunteering to give. thank you for being part of this historic event, and i know that one of these days, our lieutenant governor is going to come back and see us, and he will be very proud of all of you. thank you very much for volunteering today. [applause] >> today, it is really exciting because together, we have created a solution. we are coming together to make one-stop event where people can come together for holistic services, and that is because of your work. again, thank you, and have a wonderful day. [applause]

>> it will not be presented unless you release us to do so. i am here to ask you to do that. commissioner torres: is authorization is provided, when do you plan to do that -- if authorization is provided? >> within the month. we are looking to develop the recommendations more fully and bring them back to you. we need to make sure that the recommendations we developed through this plan are addressed in ceqa is necessary. this is a framework. we will come back to you with specific projects and programs for your endorsement, so you will have further opportunity to get into the broad areas i have described today. for members of the public to have yet to take a look at the plant or who want to access it in its final version, let me just put a slide up of where it is located on our website, and with that, i am happy to take questions. president vietor: commissioners? commissioner moran? vice president moran: we have had this before us before, and i think this is the first time we have been asked for action. >> this is correct. vice president moran: there is the frustration of deali

to see the reserves. president mazzucco: if we can have him meet with us and come to the commission, what is a good time for us to do -- >> any date in april. so they are not surprised. i have the 13th if people are amenable. president mazzucco: april 13 it is. commissioner hammer: i have one last item. at the direction of the rest of the commission, to update our rules on hearing officers. i have a draft ready to go. commissioner kingsley has a much bigger project she is starting on. those are ready to go. those are good tweaks. we met with boa a few months ago. i think march 30 is essentially a consent item. perhaps we can look at those. >> under the charter, you will need to do 10 days notice. i just wanted to make sure. >> today is -- so it's 14 days out? if it's okay for march 30 to have those in place. >> i'm fine with that bill. if it is ready, e-mail it to us. commissioner hammer: would it be possible to e-mail that to the commissioners tomorrow? >> since the occ has not seen the draft, but the boa has, i would like to weigh in that we would like to see the draft as well. they have not been involved in the d

i take it from the front door to the recycling bin, but that aside, i do not use it. i do not use it because it has no value for me, and i would not expect to customers to try to find me in the yellow pages, which is why a and option of an auction in sounds sensible to me. i try to be as sensible as a small businessman as i can. i do not spam my potential clients, which feels like what is happening in these books are dropped off indiscriminately already the city. and the waist dress me crazy. i mean, just the other day, in the midst of a recent typhoon, i so no less than 50 or 20, despite of the bags, waterlog books. i have an mp3 player. if i want a cd, i opt in to a store where i can get it. i do not buy 8-track tapes anymore. if people want to the yellow pages, absolutely, they should have it. for those of us to do not want it and do not find it is in the the in value to running our businesses are finding businesses, then i do not think we should have it. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you. >> i am just glad i did not have to come up here and sing. my na

we used to do three a year. >> maybe i can work with the art reached committee to see what we can do. >> i would be happy to help with you and reach out. getting that information, having got one point of contact person, we have a person that is out there working it. >> commissioner riley, join us at our next out reach meeting. we have two on the committee. by the way, as we are discussing this, i have heard over and over how valuable shop-your- neighborhood is. every event we do, it pays dividends throughout the year. >> lastly, we are reminding them that they can participate in flavors. thanks to commissioner dooley's recommendation. the merchant organizations were inviting them again to organize and the restaurants in their area. and we will highlight them per neighborhood. so i encourage you with any merchant groups. they receive this information. and to let them - --- remidn nd them it's there. i hope you have read the bulletin. it has just increased the wage subsidy. which is great. if you need information on that, let chrysomelid we will provide it for you. you did receive the p