i really appreciate your taking the time out here today and inviting us us to city hall and being part of the celebration. thank you claudine. as always your support and your assistance have been instrumental and it is very much appreciated. thank very much. and thank you all for joining us here today. this is an auspicious ceremony in this beautiful city of san francisco where for the second year in a row now we have been the official first day of issue city for the lunar new year stamp. i might also add that for out of the six stamps in the series san francisco has been chosen three times to be the official city. we must be doing something right in san francisco. i am honored to represent the postal service. today is an exciting service. we are proud to celebrate our special time with our friends and the asian community. appreciate the beauty of the stamps for them to use in the new year greetings to families and friends and we capture that beauty this year into celebrating the lunar year stamp. the stamp features the firecrackers that scare off evil spirits and renew hope for the fu

to join us. (applause) >> let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. last year we held a pilot project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. we were able -- we were very successful. we got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. so this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. all the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. and without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. mayor lee. >> thank you mohammed. [ applause ] >> i am very happy to be here. is this okay? all right. all right. [ laughter ] all right. first of all, happy new year to everyone. this is what i'm looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the small businesses are excited. a year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the economic vitality of the city and clearly w

but by and large the data sets put out by city government are data sets that i think show us in a very positive way. from my perspective, it's important for us to keep on pushing data sets that allow us to deal with the sometimes imperfections in city government. to figure it out, where it is we need to take risks, we are we can be more entrepreneurial, where we can be more transparent and frank little more accountable to all of you as the residents and as our customers here in city government. and this is why i am proud tomorrow to help move forward legislation that my staff has been working closely with jay nath and mayor leon that will real i do three things. first of all, it will create a chief data officer because we need one person who is responsible and accountable for moving forward our open data agenda. secondly, we're going to require every department in the city to have a representative who is responsible for data so you can go to our transit agency, our police department, any of our 50 plus departments and know who can help you get the data that we need. thirdly, we need to make sure that we have common standards so that as this dat

us live. good morning, thank you for being here to talk to us. bring us up to speed. tell us about how this goes down. >> today, everything in front of city hall gets underway at 10:45, we will have the mayor and coach, and the players reps, they will speak, confetti, tough have confetti to kick off the event. we will start from here. it's a ravens parade with the players, coaches, band, cheerleaders and mascot's home. >> what do you want people to remember? we are #expecting thousands of people. >> we encourage people to take light rail buses, you can pack over at m and t bank stadium. can be 79@zñalong the parade ro >> reporter: they will start and t. what happens there? i heard that's where the festivities begin. >> entertainment. that will be a great way to finish the season, and thank the ravens. >> reporter: thank you for joining us live and giving us the ntion. exciting time. -- information. exciting time. everything kicks off at 10:45. the players will hit the streets, parade will end up at m and t, lots of festivities. etch cannot wait to welcome home those ravens and celebrate the super bowl championship. she sherrie johnson. >>

to our orange city hall. i want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and it's my pleasure to join us here and many of us know that we are such a lucky city, and we are lucky because people around their world make their way to fraction, find hopey until the city they know that we celebrate our diversity and find strength in the different cultures that pretend together and now, i ask you also to bring me talent from the arab america communities to make me and help me lune run the city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's fleet week, whether it's the 49ers playing or the giants playing, even eventually when we land the superbowl it all board of trustees all of us, i know that what i'm doing as a mayor and making sure that i support smallbitions in the city is helpful to t

collaboration with other companies to see how movement in the city can help us establish patterns, trends, and other things. and they're going to share that data with us. and i believe that data is going to be value with us as we figure out challenges like the small businesses along west portal or in terra val, along 3rd street who see their vacancies and they ask the mayor, how can you invest in neighborhood strategy work a little better with us to attract people to come and be customers in our neighborhood, coffee shops, restaurants, salons and other things? how can we do that? we've always scratched our head saying, you kind of have to do it yourself. you have to create your ideas yourself. and now we're saying, well, maybe there is data out there that could help establish some best practices, can help maybe quicken the ideas of what might be more attracted to our smaller neighborhoods. well, this is the kind of data out there, analytics, if you will, the analytical model that are being created by our local san francisco companies like motion loft and others, who are using these data yet can share it with the government as motion loft has agreed to

to put some pictures up. so, you know, some thing can be a little more abstract with it, but, again, don't use your own city. don't use a city because they're going to want to meet you, stuff like that. like i said, i use something up in wisconsin. i have a nice pretty little girl on my thing, other pretty girl pictures on there. that's what they like so that's how they get on there. and you just keep adding friends. let them do t. once you get 10 or so, and then 10 of their friends, 50 of their friends, a hundred of their friends, now you'll look like you're a tagger yourself. you're good to go. you get all that intel right there. you try to stay -- phoenix graffiti. * it's not broken. >> do you write any flickr warrants? >> i don't use flickr. instagram is huge right now. >> they went away from flickr. >> they came and went pretty fast. i'm sure there's some still out there, but our kids in phoenix don't really use it. >> it was good because you can put in multiple tags. if you put in the right key words and put a space in between them you can figure out all kinds of crews, monikers, and where they're tagging to, wh

used to fill pot holes or do other number of tasks. >> caltrans is fighting back and starting to use aluminium wire instead of copper. >> city leaders are trying an alternative approach, using dogs to scare away the geese. the city is worried about the big mess caused by 250 geese. their waste can be dangerous for kids. in the first week chasing away about 40% of the geese sou don't see any geese there right now. it's going to stay on the job wan open ended contract to chase the geese until they have none left. >> if you're a dog that is a good job. >> the warriors getting ready to suit up with a new look. >>> in the abc 7 news newsroom at 6:00 putting an end to one of the worst bottle necks. the final phase of a highway project z a big chunk of money being spent to argue over prison conditions and who the governor claims is dragging out the fight. and if you want to find park yg you should just pull out your smart phone. we'll have those story pz more coming up on abc 7 news tonight at 6:00. >> thank you. >> see you then. >> golden state warriors may not win a title this year but they're going to take a crown for being most fashiona

to helplet folks. >> municipally owned fiber. >> yes correct. some is used by the city but there is excess as i understand and the other item brought to us after lafco met by supervisor kim's office is about parking meters. this is an on going discussion we had and that staff had other meetings and there are other issues and at least now i suggest holding off on that until we get direction exactly what the supervisor's office is looking for us to do on the project so those are the quick items. what i would suggest doing since cca is going to be a big item and continue to be i imagine the remainder of the year we have -- there are going to be times there is not as much work to be done and i can find interns to supplement the research and we work on the appointment of elected officers seem to be the one with most interest from the commissioners of trying to do something immediately on that, and that we start doing research into how that would work and i could create a study format and work with folks on that item. >> commissioner campos. >> thank you mr. chair and i want to thank our staff for the work they have done around this issue. i think that th

as far as we were concerned, that was a good thing because it enabled us to move into market street. the city had encouraged us to do so, too, as they were very much interested in revitalizing market, 6th and market, which is essentially part of the tenderloin. we thought there were a lot of opportunities there. we know something about making urban environments vital. given the present political move, people are open to new ideas. that is true across the country. our burners are being asked to come into centers of various cities for aetna. -- right now. whehowever, as soon as things gt better, they are escorted out. but we might begin to break that cycle. it is just wonderful to walk out on the street and see the world walking by. >> are you giving the twitter deal? >> yes, we are. we just founded a new nonprofit. black rock arts foundation, which is dedicated to spreading interactive, a collaborative art throughout the world. now we have founded but we call the burning and project. -- what we call the burning man project. it eventually leads to the event itself. this is a wonderful opportunity. the thing abou

concerns expressed today but you as supervisors have helped us to engage individuals and engaged us to do better and support initiatives so the city can do a better job at responding to homelessness. >> thank you very much. i department to respond -- thank you to the previous supervisor. i mean bevin was always responsive so we want to thank him for his continued service. i just wanted to respond to a few things that i heard today and i want to thank all of you, even of the folks that came out of a different mind than i am to express their thoughts. i heard folks talk about the vehicle and the fear what to do with the vehicle and potentially find a place for storage. i think this is something the legislation has been brought to the forefront of the city and we had folks in vehicles and we didn't do much. we weren't successful for reaching out for a variety of reasons and i think the legislation has helped to get our minds, get bevin's mind, and the mayor's mind around this issue and homelessness and not just the streets but in vehicles and how can we find resources, space to house vehicles so people don't lose this one asset that

to answer them. we do have our city attorney here to help us if there are any questions. -- who has been working with us on this legislation. other than that we will open for public comment. other members of the public who wish to speak in item number one? >> (off mic) (off mic) ofm(off mic) (off mic) --- (off mic) >> chair: i think you want to speak on item number two. >> i don't mean to be fresh. i am being straightforward. i'm true to this. i'm here at city hall for 20 something years way before you all can hear. i don't know what you were doing 20 years ago, but i am doing the same thing i was doing 20 years ago, trying to find out what is going on at city hall. every department here needs to go over their contracts. for instance ttys signed contract that you don't know nothing about. there's a lot of things going on, i'm going to be here to let you know. i have been here starting city hall for over 20 years. specifically the last five years and the new administration. things -- and dwayne jones. because of the african-american outmigration. every department of the city affects us, african-americans

city to use the facility. it is owned by the state and normally used by baltimore county for training. tuesday was the first time the city used it. the come -- police commissioner has suspended activities. he promised last night to be accountable. >> will be transparent and open in the sharia we have a safe from professional police organization. >> the commissioner reorganize the department -- put the training academy under the control of his chief of staff. sources tell us that earlier yesterday, the same city police and structure may have made the same -- the same mistake by pulling out the wrong done. police, that while inside. -- caught that one inside. >> we're learning more tonight about the victims in yesterday's fatal shooting in college park. davon green shot and killed himself after shooting and killing one of his housemates. and injuring the other. the army pullout again and ran. >> he was very well liked and he was very intelligent, very calm. furniture. not like every high school kid >> no word yet on funeral arrangements for stephen rane. police say the student who pulled

to sign for you the city was unable is willing to sign for us with the city. mechanics i walked in israel before they built a security fence. goodness awful could all of us the world but it has been me. yeah me and much i used to work because the people who treated me with respect couldn't learn the suddenly they greeted me with coffee and cake with. their one accordant kind of wouldn't do it either and then i'd start working. my midnight he trusted me. and that i still have the keys to the house as i work tend to pay in reference to. eat. because we want freedom that's all we ask of israel freedom. it was stolen for women who work in israel are great is literally strong as hell it is main. all in the class we've saved our kids from the thought of it to. this let alone we women who work in israel have done more for our kids as the men have the protection of the saloon. we go out at two am and get to work at eight thirty six hours on the road if i had a paramedic i'd go proudly through the bethlehem chapel and it wouldn't take more than ten or fifteen minutes to get there were ten to fifteen minutes from my house to the checkpoint i have to pay the price

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to your city. and less businesses mean less jobs. we know how that's affecting a lot of us. why do we want to use social media to investigate? why are you guys here? >> [inaudible]. >> it is, everybody talks on facebook, right? i learned this way back when i was doing s-r-o. it was myspace back then. myspace was huge, right? everybody got on myspace and everybody talked. well, i was at the school doing that job, i could always get intel on the kids finding out when the parties were going to be, who was in the fight, a lot of them used their phone to tape the fight and put it on myspace. now we have youtube and facebook. so, there's a wealth of information on there, a lot for us to use. this came from a facebook spokesperson. we never turn over content records in response to u.s. legal process unless that process is a search warrant reviewed by a judge. we are required to regularly push back against over board requests. anybody ever sent in a subpoena to facebook yet? anybody ever ask facebook, hey, can we get the content of this? of this person's profile? if you ask right away, they're going to tell you, [speaker not underst