, to help insure if your will was to keep it in the single digits, keep it lower, you could ask us to look at these options. these options are levers that we control, some that we do not. just to put that in perspective, in order to go from maintain -- and% increase down to a 9% increase, you could temporarily shave off the cash-funded program by $4 million. if you look by 2017, just going from a cash-funded program from $43 million a year down to $39 million. the other way that you could go is you could ask us with operating budgets as well to say, hold the budget flat. we have held the operating budget last because of our extreme success, water conservation efforts and lower usage. that would be another alternative. all the models, we have always assumed, grow at that inflation rate. so we are not going to do than one year and take a holiday on the increase. the other things we do not control would be the marketplace. while we have been successful in our borrowing as of late, that is a record in our generation's time. the market, when we issue debt, maybe it decides that we are good agai

there were a lot of -- many of the commissioners wanted us to look at our priority areas or programs in a way that is more comprehensive. a lot of times when we look at budget line items, it is just one item. for example, parent engagement, there are many sources of funding which support that effort. yet when we have the discussion, we generally focus on one particular source of funding rather than looking at it more conferencively. -- conferencively. >> we may the decision that every budget committee meeting we would take on a topic for exre hencive discussion efments >> if we have time, if it is not a packed agenda, and it looks like it is not packed, then we will also discuss the resources of our federal programs. then in october we decided to take on or discuss the special education program and the budget that supports that, and also the community schools. we chose in october to go over the special education budget. wented to recommend to president kim -- we wanted to recommend to president kim or vice president mendoza that we have a discussion on specialed cation redesign. we a

the most critical is that the forces us to look at our own history. the flip side of that is an appreciation and joy for us being able to overcome the history of that we do not want to see. there are a few more speakers. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i am the tribal chairperson of the nation. there was a sunrise ceremony. the power of prayer was unbelievable. the connect with all the light that us around us. i live in indian canyon. it is the only recognized indian land in the ohlone territory. we have opened it up to all indigenous people that are in need of land for ceremony. at one time, it was of no difficult to have a ceremony. now, it is. i ask that you support the native people in the city of san francisco in any manner that you can. the power of ceremony, the place where ceremonies can take place, you will be amazed how it makes it so much easier when the light understands what you are trying to do. i am very happy to be here. i cannot encourage you enough to acknowledge the local indigenous people in this city and the entire ohlon

so we see that there is a lot of cause for concerns and the trends um, cause us to look at these chemicals and say what is going on here. we know from the science that chemicals are ending up where they are not supposed to be and that is inside of our bodies. scientists can measure the chemicals getting into us, bio measuring. this is from the first chapter, indecent exposure, the intimate details. charlotte was surprised by the test results. mother of 2 among the first people to be tested for a wide range of industrial chemicals. test revealed that her body contained mercury lead cosmetics. i felt violated charlotte reported. she was upset about the pesticide. i never used them in my house, never on my lawn. i bought organic whenever i could. her body contained several variations of organic chlorines designed to attack nervous systems of insects. i never bought it. isn't that trespassing. i tell this in my story of mary broon. mary never felt called to be an environmentalist she was nursing her 6 month daughter olivia and a story had been done by texas tech where they looked at breast mil

you probably will have to take sheet rock off for us to look at the wiring and plumbing and make sure you have the necessary installation. title 24 requirements and we want to see you - or how you constructd the walls. we'll work with you. usually you don't have to pull all the street or sheet rock off. >> somebody has gone down that road and apparently lied to you in terms of what kind of work was done as apposed to what they did. is there an enforcement of a rip out or - how do you approach that? >> it's a pretty brood question. we work with the home eveners of san francisco. you know, it could very well be if you can't legalize it we'll ask you to remove the unit if you have an extra kitchen in a single family dwelling and you can't legalize it, we can ask you to remove it and that can go up to the city attorney. does that answer your question? >> if we don't want to go that far for it, but at the same time we want to make sure whatever he or she put in there is safe and the concerns of the complaining party, coordinate with the absolute requirements of the law to someone an accomm

i think that it makes sense for us to look at the number of issues not only with the public defender ut among the other law offices, perhaps. but i just do not see the reason to focus on it, so i would respectfully disagree with the author of this. i understand the spirit in which it is done. thank you. president chiu: supervisor daly? supervisor daly: let me respond to both with the same answer, which is that for eight years, almost every other instance, i have sided with a budget analyst and his recommendations. when it came to the public defender, i come out of deference to the elected official, sided with the public defender over the budget analyst, 98 times up of 100. in terms of retribution, i think where this comes from is that is when you are politically aligned with someone, and supervisor elsberd, the administration, you oftentimes are deferential to them. there are party-line votes, and you see it in the chambers of the time. who is where, but, typically, on the important stuff, you have a difference, and i am saying that i think i was wrong. and i am not totally sure that

i think the question for us to look at here, if you want to add another two weeks to cover public comment, what is dimp with this e.i.r. versus other e.i.r.'s we have done in the city? i didn't hear any public testimony that has led me to believe that we need to -- any additional information. whether board member ebber ling -- e -- elberling is right or not with the church, i don't remember any time that we have to address the-sably issues in any other e.i.r.'s. i don't disagree maybe we should look at faith-based facilities being there, but that's -- the treasure island plan itself, they can negotiate some sort of rental there, that's a separate document. regarding the e.i.r. with the transportation and the environment and some of the alternatives, again i'm going back to the role of the e.i.r., have we looked at the alternatives? if we looked -- i think we have adequately looked at the alternatives. we know we have -- there's mitigation issues. but going back again, the public should understand, this is a document to look. how do we look at the alternatives? >> a couple of things. >> i

for the first time, replay will be used to look at home runs and other plays close to the fence.he little league world series kicks off august 20th. >>> now, for highlights from the major leagues from espn and don bell. >> good morning. a busy night on the diamond. we start with alex rodriguez, looking for history in the bronx. blue jays and yankees. a-rod looking for career jack number 600. bottom of three. he's fanning in the summer heat. he goes down. top of the fifth inning, now. blue jays lead 3-2. and jose batista, outside of the batter's box. back to the wall it goes. two runs will score. and the blue jays lead it 5-2. bottom nine. yanks trail 8-6. two out. there's rodriguez, grounding weakly to short. rodriguez, 0 for 5. the blue jays win 8-6. >>> indians and red sox from fenway park. bottom one, two out. no score. kevin youkilis, soft liner. but youkilis, jammed so badly by the pitch. he sprained his right thumb. he left the game. bottom seven. red sox down by four. daniel maher singles to right. shin soo chu, into sar los santana. victor martinez, david ortiz, looking o

she would like us to look at that again. that is what we feel good faith the amount is accrued, and that is a conservative amount, given the time that has occurred. >> questions? >> appellants, you have three minutes. no? ok. commissioners, discussion? >> i think it is clear to me the department acted, as far as our policy and handling these things, it has been since 2002. i would personally like to recommend -- support staff's recommendation that we uphold this to get the fees and defer it for 15 days to accommodate -- whenever the record is from staff. maybe we could get some input from the other parties so that this is resolvable without filing. >> i appreciate that. the actual condition of the building has been fixed. is there a way where we can mention that we would like these to be recovered but overturn abatement? >> can you hear me? the board could move to say, if the appellant had ex-number of days, then the appellate board would not support this. if it was a failure to pay the fees -- >> or in this case, we would h

to see more. the treatment plant on the island would look to use a natural system. we will look at the different alternatives available and comparisons in the long term. >> what we have discussed here before is the collection system being primarily replaced by the developer, who will be responsible for the new treatment plant. >> will that be a dual system? >> the discussion has been that we would be looking [unintelligible] >> i can see, shaking his head. >> currently is a separated system. we have no intention to go into a combined system. it is very costly. with the mayor's office involved as a developer, that is not the intent. >> the climate change activities for treasure island is designed around the reuse of storm water and things on the island so it is a different view of the world. >> we are hoping to have a recycled water source from that plan on the island. the other benefits of the treatment plant upgrades, there will be a seismic upgrade to the system. we will also reduce adverse impacts that our treatment plants cause to neighbors. for instance, odors t

. >> the vice president wants us to look back to the previous administration.t the voters heard this week is that on president obama's watch, sales of new homes plunged in july and sales of existing homes dropped more than 27% and that is a record. >> it is. i think john behner is now hoping there will be economic recovery in this country and that we will get unemployment down to 4% he hopes to get the manufacturing sector going. he wants to see economic recovery more than anything in the world. do you believe that? this is good news for republicans. they want to keep it just like it is through the election. >> the gdp was much lower than expected, 1.6%. >> this has been an awful week. you are getting a return of fear. what we had for a year-and-a- half is bad economic conditions which hurt incumbents. we had a panic in 2008 with the collapse of lehman brothers and that was new and that affected the governing party. you are getting now historically unprecedented housing numbers which trouble lowest in 50 years. we have a decrease of gdp. the market is retreatin

on behalf of all of our board, very proud to be part of this, and we look forward to the events coming shortly to make this plan a reality for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next, we have renee rivera from the san francisco by a coalition. >> thank you. this is a great day for bicycling here in san francisco. we are beginning, as the mayor was just saying, a new era for bicycling and for san francisco. as the mayor said, we are not going to be number two anymore. we are well on our way to being the most bike-friendly city in the country and -- a real green city. nothing is holding us back. the mayor still most of my numbers that i was going to share with you. he is just a little too sharp these days. but i wanted to share a survey we did recently. we learned that one in two people in san francisco said they would like more if there were more bike lanes. as the mayor mentioned, we have seen a big increase in people biking, even with the very few improvements we have had over the last few years. we also know that seven out of 10 people rode a bike last year, seven out of 10 san franciscans. all of that adds up to a huge