i don't think it hurts to have this item come back to us once we have a little bit more certainty about the voting, and with the requirements may look like if there are any changes. i would support moving forward with the two years, and this option to go forward and holding off on the decision with the additional three years. >> and is there any additional comment? >> do we have the motion to accept the recommendation, at least the first recommendation to exercise these options? >> there are several technical amendments that we have made, and they are all listed on page 7 of the report. >> just to articulate what these are, regarding the proposed amendment, to amend the proposed resolutions title, for an amount not to exceed -- and to extend the contract through 2016, to oppose this -- to replace this language for an amount not to exceed -- to extend the term of the contract and it indicates to amend the resolution on page one, at a cost of 2.26, with the exact value of 2.264. and can we take this without objection? the amendments? and then, just to the city attorney with regards to the

if you have any questions, feel free to come up to us. we would love to have some discussions about the numbers. chairman nolan: thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i am 17 years old and was appointed to the youth commission by supervisor mirkarimi. i support this resolution for free muni because i remember this time freshman year, i had to walk all the way from my home to high-school because i could not get on the bus because i did not have money. there are a lot of you who have experienced that. a lot of those who have not even gone to school because they do not feel it is worth it. i feel that we should support for remini for youth -- free muni for youth. also, something for those who turned 18 and still have to commute. hank here -- thank you. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] >> good afternoon. i am a member of power. i want to thank everyone for being here today. i am here to be in support of the campaign to make him uniquely for all youth -- make muni free for all youth. i am asking you to point to a member of your departme

to us. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. i have a couple more cards. want to use the one to your right. you can use the microphone to your right, because that was not on. >> hello. first, i want to thank all you supervisors for helping us. it is just wrong for the federal government to table people's votes and just throw it away, disregarded. we voted for prop 215. we won. we should not be having this problem with the federal government and nobody else. i want to thank you all for your support. keep our madison. thank you very much. [applause] >> hello. my name is theresa. i am a healer in an illegal -- legal secretary peter i am a member of the access of love. i used to buy my medical marijuana illegally. it was a lot more money. i was pretty scared. when i finally got my doctor's prescription, i had a big sigh of relief. i am looking for the federal is. they're looking for us. we're looking for them. i want to know why we're having to be so afraid in this city peter i am scared. it is stressful. business owners that the can of this dispensaries are un

how many of you have had to exit a fire escape in an emergency? it's rarely used and we have very few incidences. therefore, based on our history, epidemiologically. we don't have reason to believe they're not functioning. there's no reason. these are working just federal fine. >> it always works at least to get you out of the second floor. the last floor is easy. thank you for coming. our brown bag lunches continue and we invite you to join us. thanks a lot. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital

that there are some great secrets to unleash when we have alternatives to how we use our roads and how we can open them up to even more diverse use, safe uses of our roads. and certainly our bicycle enthusiasts have a great contribution to that as i saw on grand beach and chinatown. when you close from tower to bush street and allow the people to get out there, you can see some fantastic results and we're going to patiently wait for the statistics to show us how much that impact was. but i want to simply welcome you here today and to put something in context they know will be exciting for us. you know that bicycle travel has increased over 60% since 2006. and that if we are to make sure that our goal of bicycle trips of being 20% of every trip that is in our city to be 20% by 2020, we're going to have to work a lot harder. we're going to have to educate more people. we're going to have to bring a lot more people under the tent, and we're going to have to understand how leadership and education and enforcement work together with a cultural change that we have to produce in our city. we

in my thinking, for us to have a four-year contract for a system costing $9 million is probably not the best place for the city. it makes sense for us to exercise these options so that, additionally we can extend out for three years, to go through the selection process, and the contract talks. the one thing about this system, it is the only system in the country that can run this system. there is nothing out there to replace the current system. the current vendor has a system includes the rank-choice voting, for this process. the system that we have is what we can use for san francisco the system that we bought only four years ago. i asked for the board to approve this option, contract the us for an additional three years. i don't know of any other funding source and no one has come forward to say that the money is available for new system. >> can i ask a few questions? but the conversation that we will have, many of us are wondering if we should do this, and if this fits into what we are trying to do. we actually purchased the system and own the equipment that we got with the investmen

[laughter] it is beyonce tricky way of having us may be having to rely on one another again -- it is got's tricky way of having us maybe having to rely on one another again. [applause] >> there are all these breakdowns to me sometimes. even with the naacp, it took them a minute to open up the hollywood bureau, because how important is the industry, is the media, and in the influence on politics. one of the major hurdles i keep thinking and seeing, and we had a conversation about this recently, where is our business community in supporting our arts? and i oppose that to you, mr. belafonte, especially, because i know you look at the global world and the global marketplace, and you know the value of our story. what is the disconnect, and why have we not been able to bring that together? >> i have to make this observation. there's not enough time to speak to it in its fullest sense, but let me make the observation anyway. never in the history of the united states of america has the curriculum of our schools ever been plentiful or reflective of our history. [laughter] it is not something t

great to have you with us there is plenty ahead this hour including the fall. do or die time to last for euro two thousand and twelve places will be decided tonight with the crucial second leg kicking off in portugal croatia montenegro on the republic our. ports sides to the court room the n.b.a. season looks in further jeopardy after players again reject the n.b.a.'s latest financial offer threatening a lawsuit this shows a. couple of legends the stars who made soviet apply salty bird and private skate on to the rink once again in school. or not soon but we start with football where the final night of euro twenty twelve qualification kicks off later tonight the second leg of playoff action seeing four games including turkey's quest to overcome a three goal deficit away to croatia. the us with it all to do their narrow chance of clinching a place at next year's finals in poland and ukraine further in minutes by the fact that for first teamers are suspended for the clash this former russian is hopeful that back ups come at least make it much of things this time o

have been in place. i want to thank all of the residents who have been here. they continue to be patient. they see the changes coming along. they are with us on all those changes, and this transformation is real. it is one that i have personally committed to. i am going to be down here and tell everybody wants to be down here locates here. congratulations, everyone. thank you very much. [applause] >> as the mayor said, it certainly takes a village to do the work we are doing, but it also requires leadership, and we are lucky to have the leadership of supervisor kim to help us. [applause] supervisor kim: thank you appeared almost exactly six months ago, the mayor, president chiu, and i stood across the street to announce the spirit we talk about a vision we had, which, as many of you know, mid market has suffered the highest commercial vacancy rate of any court or in san francisco for over 50 years. we talked about the hope we had for pearl's deluxe burger moving in across the street, the hope for twitter. six months later, we have a company that has already moved in across the street. this women of color-owned business has opened on the co

in my thinking, for us to have a four-year contract for a system costing $9 million is probably not the best place for the city. it makes sense for us to exercise these options so that, additionally we can extend out for three years,

time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty simple. you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes, there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized that we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time you are able to get your marr

in order for us to have a path forward, in order for us to have some solution, both sides have to be ing to negotiate. we got into this position because of overspending. overspending by both parties. everyone is guilty. for us to have some real solution, it first needs to start with cutting government spending. >> there is the rub. it is not likely to happen, especially in an election year. d.c. some type of quick response were quick answer to this? >> not at all. it is unfortunate that this will be kicked down the road another year. that is a the president did last year by starting the dax committee, to have a talking point and say he was addressing it in some sort of manner, but once they came out with their report, nothing was done with it. we have been kicking the can down the road for way too long. >>ysabel: it sounds like it is time for the public to go back to their congressmen to do something to move this forward. it sounds to me that the public has to make some effort. >> it is. the public does have to get involved in and get engaged. at the end of the day, they will only be

on in africa. >> (speaking spanish). >> and from some of the sounds they used to play that we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. >> (speaking spanish). >> for instance -- >> (speaking spanish). >> this means "attention be alert. something is going to happen". >> (speaking spanish). >> wake up. wake up. >> wake up, wake up. (speaking spanish). >> and this are some of the drumming patterns that have been rescued by the cultural association. >> (speaking spanish). >> the african and review itse s size. >> (speaking spanish). >> to the actual size that he has. >> (speaking spanish). >> the reason why this drum was reduced in its size it was the intention of hiding it from the dominant class so they will not be oppressed by playing it. >> (speaking spanish) (drums). >> (speaking spanish). >> for these wonderful instrument called cajon it's put into different styles. also the cajon today is incorporated intd international music. >> (speaking spanish). >> (drums). (music). (applause). (music). (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah. this is a style called lando. and it comes from undue. >>

britain controls is to establish a defense that says, even were there to be a problem, we have done what you assets to do. you told us to do britain controls and training. we have done that. why with the sec wants to bring enforcement action against us? it would not set an example to the market. 26 and 27 -- 26 is a slide that shows the key features within the original statement. 27 reflects certain observations, one of which is apparent that it is always easier after the fact when things go awry to say, was everything accurate about the disclosure? because of that, if there's any question about whether or not to disclose the tendency of the team is to disclose. the sec, in the orange county report, those of us who have to interpret it, in reading it closely, they allege that the board members new material facts and did not bring it to the attention of the financial team. how do we interpret that? what advice can give you if we are not aware of whether that is the case? is it necessary that the board members, in each case, review the complete, official statement. the answer is no. the sec as short as you can reasonab

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to us. i think it would be good information for us to have.have a motion to send the item forward without recommendation at this time. >> we will do that without objection. supervisor chu: thank you very much, colleagues. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. >> the item before us today is a public hearing on the proposed plan the navy and regulatory agencies are here to discuss the plan and answer questions. however given the public comment period has not closed there will be limitations on what questions from the board that they can respond to. i would like to call up laura from the navy to give us an overview of the proposed plan. then the department of public health on monitoring the ship yard and proposed plan. next will be craig cooper. he will offer brief remarks and final we have ryan from dtsc who will offer brief remarks. alec and ross. i don't know who will be going. they are also here today. ross will be giving remarks on the role of rwqcb. then we will have

i have talked to the three democrats from the house of representatives. they have consistently reported back to us that there are substantive discussions. they believe all 12 of the members of the committee are trying to reach a successful conclusion. all of the members i have talked to -- i have talked to all 12. this was reached at the beginning of the committee's deliberations. all of them indicated they were wanting to get to a big deal. $4 trillion was focused upon to get us to be that to gdp ratio that is confidence-building over the long term. i may not have much more information about the substance of what they are doing than you do. the recommendation was made in public. there are public recommendations on the table. >> the other parts of this deficit reduction deal was a guarantee that both houses of congress would want a balanced budget amendment by the end of the year. the last time the balanced budget amendment came up, you said you would actively campaigned against it as the democratic whip. is there any form of the balanced budget amendment that you would support or that would allow

it is important for us to have capacity right now. families need to stay in contact with children and grandchildren. we are unable to get a good signal. service is going to be terrible. we need to add more antennas. the city health department has reviewed them. please approve this project. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. everybody has a cell phone. the younger generation -- everyone has one. everyone carries one for the internet. i would say it is really important. the radiation is very, very low. [unintelligible] thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> my name is nathan williams. i am a local resident. i support the antennas. i use my cell phone a lot in business and school. not only are they safe by federal standards, but that are vital for medical personnel to use to communicate in emergencies. the police station across the street will tell you the good connections are important for public safety. i experienced crop calls a lot. it causes problems when i am talking to prospective clients. anytime we call someone from

keep quiet they do not want us to have quite pretty some religion that is part of our our system i mean we need to say to these people you know you are not the one to decide we decide about free speech we all say what we like. the u.s. have freed up one of the cuban five a group of intelligence officers branded terrorists but he still can't leave florida to meet his family renee gonzales served his thirteen year sentence in a federal prison in fall but u.s. authorities are forcing him to stay in america to serve a three year long probation period he was arrested together with four other officers and jailed on charges of spying and terrorism cuba insisted they were in the u.s. hunting a group of anti castro exiles who were planning terrorist attacks in the communist state party caught up with the man's wife who said the case was biased from the start that. it turned out to use authorities be the media to paint the case in black the media labeled them spies and terrorists charged incenses them from the very beginning those w

to us. i think it would be good information for us to have. we have a motion to send the item forward without recommendation at this time. >> we will do that without objection. supervisor chu: thank you very much, colleagues. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. supervisor avalos: good morning. welcome to the city operations and never had services committee. my name is supervisor john avalos, the chair the committee. joined by supervisor eric mar. the other member of the committee will be absent today, supervisor sean elsbernd. can we get a motion to excuse his absence? so done, without objection. we're also joined right now by supervisor david campos. the clerk of the committee is ms. gail johnson. can you share announcements? >> all persons are requested to off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please put them up by the rail in front of you to your left. if you submit copies of materials for members of the committee, please submit an ex

to use. it is pretty intuitive. learning curves have to be accounted for, and each time we use it, we learn more and more. that goes to the more we use it, the better we get at it, and the more valuable it becomes, the more we can refine it appeared we have seen a trend where people are getting better at using it and we are identifying better how to use it. utilization to coordinate events i think continues to be a good use of everybody's time. sometimes it seems a little slow. sometimes it seems like, "why are we here?" i would like to remind people that things do happen. while the reno air show is an anomaly, things do happen at these events. a grandstand collapse in indianapolis was something nobody ever thought of happening. whenever you have large crowds, things can happen. having a lot of people in the room to solve a problem right then is how to solve it. we look at how to do special event planning from a public safety perspective and making some changes to that. we are starting to look at a more holistic approach earlier out, ge

we used to have the rule of law. now we have the role of lawyers. and amazingly expensive cumbersome system that makes it harder and harder to start a business in this country. i am running a little experiment out how easy it is to start a business in the united states. it is harder than it is in england and it is easier to do in hong kong. all the things that we used to be the best actor, all the institutional advantages that we take for granted, i have a sense we have let them slip away, but we can get them back. we need to focus on what is that is going wrong and we are not so good at that. the debate seems to be about the wrong thing. an arbitrary debt ceiling consumed six weeks of political energy. and we hardly ever discuss the problem of international educational standards, the fact that we are slipping down the rankings as mathematical attainment -- and we are keeping to bid -- we are debating the wrong thing. tavis: hard to do justice to your butt, i love the text -- your book, i love the text. he is also the coolest professor to talk about

we have a news bureau there in addition to the approximately 80 people that put on the daily show al youm. it varies. some don't allow us to have anybody. in syria, we don't have anybody. they don't credit us to have correspondence there, so we have to be creative and innovative in finding ways to report from those locations. yemen is difficult too. we have a couple people there, but they clamp on the satellite link and how the packages a transmitted out, and so it's a difficult environment. in egypt, also in addition to the event we just showed in the 25 january revolution, we have a similar situation where we had two cor spots on the air from the studio, security forces burst in, pulled the plug, took them off the air, and threatened their lives. people were literally jumping off the building on to the next building's balcony in order to escape the thugs in this case, so it's been a dangerous environment. libya has been obviously a dangerous environment to operate. we had a correspondent, a radio correspondent that accompanied the rebels as they marched forward. it's an exciting time for us. it's one of the reasons we

americans are still trying to gain control of the situation and retain the positions which they used to have and which will give them a foothold for the future it's wrong to think it was america who overthrew the barack using president. mr perle knock off what looks most terrifying to me is the fact that and all those countries and egypt and libya and in tunisia we now have muslim extremists in power we associate you know this isn't true or you're wrong about there first of all it's a conglomerate of forces and i think that we can't be talking about a complete triumph or is it best not to mention his you know egypt as we begin to win some seats in the parliament perhaps even more than expected but we should keep in mind that various muslim organizations evolve with time the muslim brothers for example are not the same organization and he was the one that wanted to overthrow or kill nasser sort of time back to the muslim brotherhood is different and of course there are extremists amongst them at the same time that i think that all this power of spring outburst has had an effect on islamic org

we wanted to make sure that we were respecting our seniors and what you have done to raise us, what you have done to build our communities, what you have done it to take care of this generation's that came out behind you. we have to remember that california is not going to forget all of you. [cheers and applause] and i have to say, we like to do things differently in san francisco, but sacramento has to change. and when we come together with one voice, talking with 10 of voices, talking with thousands of voices, governor jerry brown -- can you hear us? can you hear us? we have these incredible adult day health centers in every community in our city, reflecting every part of diverse san francisco. and i want to let you know that your elected officials are standing with you. we're standing behind you. we're going to go to san francisco -- sacramento and make sure that jerry brown does the right thing. thank you for being with us today. [cheers and applause] >> all right. supervisor chu had the right idea. what was it that we were saying before that we want to tell the governor? we will no

us to add market rate to the equation. the market rate is going to allow us to have the public housing validation. this came together to create a situation that was feasible to us. we are going to have affordable housing, market-rate ownership and below market rate ownership. as i mentioned before, we continue to be guided by these principles. i will not bring you through the list. i want to make sure that my other partners tell you about the great things we are doing with the schools. i wanted to make one thing very clear. we are ensuring that there is no loss of public housing. when we started this initiative, that is what we said we would do. the second thing, i want to make sure it is very clear, we are here to minimize displacement. in previous transformations, what has happened was that section 8 vouchers were given to families. families gets settled where they are. you are lucky to get about 30% of the individuals coming back to the development where that happens. if you like to stay here during construction, you can stay here during construction. you have the opportunity to stay. we want yo

we talked about how they used to have six theaters in chinatown and now they do not have any. we contacted a hotel in the area. we talked to a community leader who said this is fantastic. they want to encourage it. we also talked to central. they basically said we do not have any problem with this. we just want to make sure we are consistent with conditions. with constant, excellent communication, we have agreed to the conditions they have set forth. i want to turn this over to tim lee, who would like to say a few things. >> good evening. good evening, board president, board commissioners, and ladies and gentleman. the dinner show that we put on is mostly tailored to dinner patrons, lunchtime matinees for seniors over 55. i am almost there. we are trying to put up entertainment that is for in the daytime and and this before 10:00 -- and it ends before 10:00. that is what we are trying to do. it will revitalize the economy of the city and create jobs. thank you. president newlin: commissioners, questions for mr. lee? >> i have a couple. it says you are expecting 10 cars with 20

to come in and get a conditional use to have that use reinstated at the planning commission. it also seeks to expand the limited corner use, which is actually in the provision in the code that was adopted free- market octavia rezoning effort. currently, limited corner commercial usages are limited to 1200 square feet, and it would increase it to 2500 square feet and would allow them within 100 of the quarter rather than just 50 feet. -- 100 feet of the corner. the proposed legislation also reduces variances and increases code compliance. it also increases as a right parking in the c-3. the idea is, if that is what we are granting them, we might as well just made that the code requirement, but we can also give a takeaway if someone were to succeed that one to to, rather than just a simple 39 procedure on the conditional use, and that threshold is a little bit higher -- rather than just a simple 309 procedure. in addition, the legislation has certain exemptions to allow automotive service stations along primary transit streets or

i believe the best role for israel is to have the kind of leader that it used to have historically like the prime minister who supported peace and was killed a leader who would find a compromise settlement with carlist out of syria it's important i mention syria as this is a matter that cannot be resolved palestine or. do you believe that the fundamental problems of today's israel why would that country's authorities. i certainly do it's also a matter of public opinion of course but the matter can change to the present arab spring for instance it's absolutely obvious to me that it broke out in tunisia and egypt without any external preparation i don't share the opinion of those who believe it's been stirred up by americans or europeans and so on it was a spontaneous outrage a rebellion if you want a revolution as some put it but what's the health care here and what future implications will it have and why i say that americans if their approach to be arab states are combining their willingness to protect their national interests to its region with a certain romanticism with one has to be

to us. i think it would be good information for us to have.have a motion to send the item forward without recommendation at this time. >> we will do that without objection. supervisor chu: thank you very much, colleagues. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be 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

to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >> you had mentioned about assistance in public contracting. for small companies, one of the issues is bonding. what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small businesses on public contracts. so there is an sba program on a maturity bonding, similar to what we do. it is a guarantee to be assured the in the event of a default, that is a guarantee. so there is a charity bond guarantee, structured differently than the sba guaranteed loan program. >> i am a big fan of marketing. let u

to us. i think it would be good information for us to have.have a motion to send the item forward without recommendation at this time. >> we will do that without objection. supervisor chu: thank you very much, colleagues. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee.