as we are making the decision about central bayside to know which ones look the most promising. president moran: so far, this is all ink on paper and it is not -- we are not making appropriations for specific projects at this point. that said, i want to make sure that the piloting is a meaningful process that produces information we can use in making decisions. and that we do not either oversize the pipe or undersized it because we are being too optimistic. i want to use the information that we get from that. that is my take on this. it would not even be a question if those projects were not starting until sometime after the completion of the early implementation projects. you have moved this much sooner. i like moving faster, but i am concerned about making productive use of the information we are trying for. >> the valencia street project, which is in design now, in construction next summer -- >> we are hoping to have it by spring. >> we are aware of that and rafael is our project manager. th

we agree that a joy. we will get more on this item. -- we agree that it should. we will get more on this item. the second question is whether the bias salads digester facilities project can be accelerated. but yes, we will present to you today a way to consolidate that schedule. we also have some work in our program some work that could be done on the existing digesters. question 3, do we need to buy a $7 billion program today? we are requesting your validation of our $6.9 billion program, but we will present -- present a phased approach that we think is workable. that will be during the implementation portion of the agenda. the question came up from commissioner moran, are we double counting the green infrastructure budget. no, we are not. and we will recap the entire section of the workshop where we're talking about gray and gray/green projects and how those compared in costa and can -- and performance. and we will compare rate made -- ratepayer monthly bill impacts. todd will include that and we have actually included what the impact would be in the year 2032.

we are looking closely. right now we are on time and on budget. if we fall off we hopefully look for ways to accelerate to avoid further damages and really, you know, give the time needed to develop these areas for the uses that we are going to use them for. the second bucket is a new listing of up to five million in liquidated damages. this is a per day amount that starts march first at one and increases over time, reflective of the increased damage to the america's cup village and having to delay getting things up and going. the $5 million exposure, as noted in the resolution is something we proposed through help of risk management to address through procurement of insurance policy that covers a wide range of things not covered by traditional builder's risk policy and liquidated damages, including the two new force ma injury * that are no longer excuses, fire and weather. as noted before insurance isn't available for strikes against the project but we feel that is unlikely. like the schedule, we will keep a very close eye on that. the third buck

as we listen to you, we feel certain that we will get to where we want to go.i am pleased to be sam's cochairperson here when we talked this over, he asked me if i would do this. i have been working in budgets so long that many people are wondering which will get solved first, the budget or will senator de medici finally leave us? i really don't know which one will be first. but until i leave you, will continue to work on this and see what we can do. so thank you, sam. literally, millions of words have been spent on this topic during the past two years. when you and i, senator nunn, were still in the senate, we heard our colleagues and millions of words on the need for fiscal wisdom appeared uni and our then-colleagues worked together to forge budgets to try to balance government spending with revenues. we had colleagues on the left and right who expect -- who, except for a handful of their extreme comes were partners in our work. even after -- who, except for a handful of their extremes, were partners in our work. between president clinton and the congress, we

if we had enough in 12-13 to -- we do. after understanding our revenues in terms of what was projected in the expenditure and seing from the department of motorvehicles, putting that together, these are funds being able to program out in given years by cash flow. not on the programming side. that is clear. >> so if you have your magnifying classes with you, commissioner, attachment 4, you can see the first year we actually have 12 million in the bank. we have been building up moneys so when departments come in we can pay them. we have a little higher than normally, but a total of $26 million. again, if you look at the programming side would tell you in 12-16, the previous authority board could award 12.5 million but the expenditures considered lower. that is about six million. that is what you see before you. i will note while you are digesting that that this is an iterative process. we looked at the safety questions, walks, statistics and projects like the gas closure in the presidio to lincoln actually has a high number

we don't want to conduct autopsies and look at we should have, we could have, why didn't we?e want to look at various points in the year how are the students doing right now? and what can we adjust in terms of the instruction right now to ensure that our students are learning at their maximum potential. if you look at schools that had tremendous growth this past year and we go back and look at their cla, the common learning assessment over the course of the year we can predict with almost 100% certainty which schools will have the growth based on the cla's. that is very powerful information for talented teachers and administrators to have in terms of determining how students are learning. we're also increasing the access to the core curriculum. we're aligning the pre-k and elementary grades so teachers understand what preschool teachers are teaching and preschool teachers understand their important work is absolutely critical to ensuring students are reading at grade level by grade three and you have seen the tremendous work in that regard. we are expanding our differentation

as we move forward we want to stay focused on where we are going. continue to focus on the early investment. a natural long-haul. continue to drive reform and technology and technology increase the efficiency and better outcomes as well and the next generation of teachers coming in and the respect initiative which gets into a million teachers retiring over the next six years. our ability to attract and retain talent shapes public education. it is a once in a generation opportunity and how we make a real profession with great talent once it comes and get recognized and compensated and career ladders that meaningful. lot of work we do together in a profession where we are not losing too many of our young talent and won't even think about coming in to education and push hard. and the higher education side we have to break through and with 40 states cutting funding more middle-class families -- i was in iowa not long ago at a forum like this. a young girl came up to me. she was a senior in high school. right then her family at dinner time trying to deci

and immigrant affairs and we had a lot there and we were stuck in the meeting all day and so we got to participate in focus groups and we came away from that with a lot of information. additionally we attended the rights meeting on september tenth and also presented our language protocol at that meeting to the people present at that meeting. and answered questions. yesterday we went to a day-long training for language access. it was quite a good training and the reason for the meeting was so that we can properly complete our police department language access report, annual reports for city hall and the office of city engagement. so we came away from that meeting. and we were able to meet the other department heads and i have to say that we are pretty much, not ahead of the curve, but right in there. so that is all that i have. >> thank you, sergeant, commissioner chang? >> welcome other questions from the other commissioners too, but i have an interest in this topic. i wanted to thank officer hall as his service, he worked really hard and did that audit where he went around station by

this is what we do and how we do what we do. it is my vision to have some kind of special team in place in the department that focuses in understands my life. we are a little bit of a ways off, but that is what i would like to do. >> how can a new club owner in gauge so they know the rules and regulations and what is expected of them? >> essentially, we tend to reach out to club owners. there are 3600 licenses within 49 square miles. the director will tell you it is the largest in the state. so, for the inspectors assigned to that unit's, we tried to engage them to open up. i agree with the gentleman at the end. security is paramount. we feel that as the police department, we want you to please yourself. as the commander mentioned, we are well trained. we do not come out there as police officers. we are into education and training. we are not looking to enforce. we tried to instill the idea that the security plan is paramount, providing the framework by which an establishment protect itself from inappropriate behavior and crimin

we are building strong union and we are united today. we thought we had an election. i'd like to talk about the fact the teamsters union has 1.4 million unions, we are in united states, canada, 150,000 members in canada. we are in puerto rico. we are the most democratic union in the united states. we are very proud of it. an effective we are elected by the members. we are not elected by business agents. we are elected by ballots being mailed out to members all over the place. we mail out $1.4 million. they come back, and i running it over here, my secretary treasurer, a great slate, we won roughly two-thirds of the vote and i bet barack obama would like to have those numbers. we are very proud of what we've done, and it shows the fact is in a tough economy, in tough times, we are getting the job done. it's no secret we're in the middle of a tremendous recession. we have 23 million people out of work but you will have to go back, i had to laugh at the convention, talking about the fact they were trying to blame barack obama for what happened as it no one remembers the

we hope we will never have to spend. while we are appropriating, the goal is not to spend but the collateral and unlikely event of termination. what does that mean? what is the city liability? if the program is successful, obviously there is no liability. if the program is financially successful -- not successful, we just can't get the customers we can't get. we go to shell and say, this isn't going to work. can we go out and sell that power someplace else? it is renewable power. with the rules in california there is such demand and the current rates are so cheap that we believe we could turn around and re-sell that power should this program not work. if for some reason that is not true we are liable up to $15 million should shell be unable to sell the power to someone else. that is the limit of that liability. that decides if we decide it is not viable and power rates in california change dramatically. if the program is financially successful and working and the board chooses to kill the program any way that is where li

we talk to them all the time so we can ask. >> i agree. what we have in san francisco is pretty rich to do that kind of outreach, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor ferl? >> i would say to follow onto supervisor kim's comments about sros, i appreciate the comments. if we go down that slope we have a lot of senior homes in district two i think fall in the same category that i think would benefit greatly. if we are going to go down the road of excluding certain ones i ask that become a priority as well. i think elderly folks are part of it the population that i'm concerned about, about kind of not being

sure we can accommodate growth we are projecting.so we take the estimates of when the fleet should be replaced, when expansion needs are anticipated to occur, then we apply a unit cost to the different types of projects. this shows three activities we have in the fleet. one is rehabilitation of the fleet, which would be kind of that midlife overhaul. typically in the transit vehicle about its halfway life there's components the manufacturers recommend you overhaul or replace. that is what's represented primarily in that rehabilitation column. two exceptions are the historic and cable cars, which are assets. we wouldn't replace them like a bus. those fall under rehabilitation, though those projects are similar to replacement of a bus. the second column shows the replacement costs where we actually take an old vehicle that's run for its entire life. replace it with a new one, then dispose of the old vehicle. that makes up the bulk of our 20-year projected cost. >> what goes into deciding how much of your resources go toward rehabilitat

we, my? -- we might have. was one of these angry americans that -- i'm just tired of this is the muslim for bombing us, kissed the muslim for making it very hard for us to live our daily lives. hormuz -- the news media is scaring us to death. we're listening to you schering us to death. why don't we just take what we have now before they get it and turn it into a glass factory over there? it is well within our capability .o do so precautio and i think it is what is going to have to be because they are not going to stop. they have been doing this for 2000 years. host: juan zarate, what are your thoughts? guest: first audobon not scare anybody. there is no question we have -- first, i hope i'm not scare anybody. there's no question that we have gone on the offensive. there is debate on whether we have gone overboard. i do not think so. there is the reality of threat, especially as we have disrupted plots. on this question of islam, i think one of the things that i am most proud of with the bush administration wa

we learn so much from them. as we bring them in, we often learn a great deal. certainly in the marine corps. pieces of each service have been done. would you like to add to that? >> the corps of engineers has been auditable for a few years now and we are using their audit approach and they're concerned to guide us. >> mr. coughman entries reign. >> thank you for giving us the opportunity to talk. we can clean out some of the other problems. the people are not properly trained to use the system that doesn't work, what would each of you identified as her principal problem right now in the personal training area, what is our biggest deficiency are far? what do you think we need to do to fix it? what would be the number one problem we don't right now have a framework and the defense financial community that allows us to require training across the board. we started the certification program and what the acquisition community did a number of years ago. we are actually beginning private programs now. we're setting levels -- in order to be certified at that level, and

we will be blocking it. we will be working closely. i see many of our friends from the district attorney's office here, to vigorously prosecute those that are in commission of crimes, especially if you are on our list. we are one list you do not want to make. we will be trying to get those people off the streets for as long as we can, whether it is in county jail, prison, and then those folks that are not on the list -- we would love to work with you, as the mayor said, to get you into some productive, positive choices. jobs, more education, again, to try to break the cycle. we will be using the same system and, hopefully, where we can get to later to predict with the next violence they occur and deploy resources there so that we are efficient and even more so -- we are not random in our application of our efforts to eliminate this violence. all you have to do is look at the room. it is unbelievable the amount of people that are now in the conversation, and we need to stay in the conversation. even in -- even if this current state of v

we track what we get, and we can look at the, you know, we can calculate it that way. as i said before, we are really hoping we can get down to five days to satisfy everybody's needs and we wouldn't trigger this fee. and we have some -- you know, there are challenges, as you know, on hiring the staff and i'll mention that later on. however, we are close to even having a list of the [speaker not understood] and then we can do the canvassing and the recruitment. so, we are hoping that we will get the staff on board, but then there is the training. and i sat down there, and knowing what i know from the last several years on how to read the screens and knowing how the system works and knowing how the various databases and having the detailed instructions in front of me, it is very complicated, and it will take some training of staff unless it's people that have come and grown up in the system. so, we'll try to make sure that we train people quickly and efficiently and effectively. >> okay. is there any more questions? no? once again, thanks. the commission appreciates your

this is who we are going to advertise with, this is who we are going to outreach to, this is how we are going to conduct a shortfall and et cetera, et cetera. the two major changes are really that they directed that they not use the availability advisory percentage anymore for the dbe program. they believe that that gives the contracting community the impression that there's an enforceable dbe goal on contracts, so we have honored that directive and taken that out of the dbe plan, but we did note for fta we will still have enforceable goals on the small business side and we would be requiring contractors to meet those goals, or demonstrate good faith efforts to meet those goals. the second change the that since we have established our dbe program we have always reported our dbe participation based on all of our contracts. that is how we have calculated our goal for every period. that is how we have always submitted our goal. our goal has always been approved. following the review they stated they want to see the goal based just on fta funded contracts. that's really because they've got

we don't want to expose an ability we have. so in a way we're looking add two very large heavy stones here. one dealing with our own identities and how we negotiate better in our every day lives as well as how we negotiate those multiple identities within structures that give us certain privileges in society. so in a way it's kind of a teeter totter back and forth. a negotiation. and that negotiation is what is important. of how we then decide on where we are going to go. with which identity. i still see racism. >> on this campus? >> yes. >> how do you react to that? do you as a student do you experience that? >> i feel like the racism on this campus isn't as blatant as it used to be. it's more constitutional. i mean, it's just become so part of our society that we don't even notice when we are being racist or discriminating. even jokes i hear on campus is between asians or african americans or caucasians. yeah it's funny but to someone else it could be very hurtful. no one wants to speak up because you don't want to be that pe

we never got the policy we wanted. -- we were never able to get a quality that we wanted. we made this decision to years ago. made the decision two years ago. it took 6 to 8 months to build dace web. probably will look back on saying that as one the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistake we have made. but we're coming out of that now. >> you said it was about two years ago that you decided data with the way to go. -- native is the way to go. >> two years ago as we decided to combat completely on html 5. that's when we started building face web. we worked at that for a few months the camp to the conclusion, this is better to go to the quality levels. -- hey, this is not going to get to the quality we want anytime soon. we needed to have something at the highest quality level. the only way we are going to get there is by doing native. so, we scrap this. native is going to be the approach we go with four ios and android going forward. >> you said that was the biggest strategic mistake you made. >> we have more usage on a mobile upside-down on our rehearsal iod

with shell and things we know we really needed and we needed to start this program. we need to start this program now. we have waited long enough. it is time to move forward and create clean power to be a program that now in its beginning is simple. we buy clean energy and sell clean energy. it will create financing mechanisms and help us develop the program we want, which is empower people that want jobs, that want the skills to be competitive in the job market. these are green jobs, new economy jobs we have talked about for a long time, now we want to deliver. i'm not here to sell you shell energy, i'm not. i'm here to get a program off the ground that is so much more than that. supervisor ash land, if you don't know him, he passed away, was a champion for this issue in marin. since that was my bell i will speed it up. marin clean energy is a program up and running and is very successful. after their first year they managed to pay off all the people that initially loaned them the money to start the program, because banks would not. now they have a program -- the pu

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we did hold two meetings, we intended on holding three. for anyone that is paying attention to planning is, the western soma plan released its er and comments were due yesterday. we were trying to pull together the group began to see if we can formally comment as a subcommittee or even pass that along to the full commission. the meetings, we had could turn out the first meeting. we talked about housing, entertainment, the buffer zones that around -- or around the housing and we talked about transportation and the need for entertainment along routes of public transit. unfortunately, we could not formalize any recommendations and it is too late for the eir. i would like to dissolve the committee for the time being. i think we will have an opportunity when the actual plan goes up to the planning commission to kind of regroup and it was good to hear, watching the hearing that the planning commission had on it and tons of folks came out from the entertainment community and the businesses along 11th street to voice their concerns. i would like t

even though we love america, we are not muck, and -- america, and we are not america because we cannot make a mistake. if israel makes mistakes, we cannot correct it. and we saw it in the past. and my main point in my book, that evil must take the decisions according to the interest of israel period, we do not have to think or to try to satisfy anyone even if it means telling to our allies to have the american president to the u.n., we do not agree with you. and i will give you two examples. we are all -- and i'm going to deal with the issue of iran. it will be the first question. before iran, let's speak iraq. in the early '80s, the prime minister decided to attack the nuclear reactor in iraq. it wasn't popular here in the u.s., but we did it. and we we were condemned by the u.s., by the state department, we were condemned by the u.n., but years later people exearkted that the -- appreciated that the, grave decision that prime minister begin took in 198 is 1 was for the benefit of the american people. because when you, the american army, invaded iraq, you were able do into the region

and we make sure that we do training. we make sure that we do outreach. we make sure that we are monitoring our contracts and we are gathering information about availability redo have databases that we have set up. one of our great partners here is paul penkergass, who is a local business in san francisco. they work on one of the major projects in the city and county of san francisco, the park drive, access to the golden gate bridge. phase one, which is under way right now toward completion, is one that has taken the attention of a number of leaders, national leaders. congresswoman, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, brought tremendous support to the project and participated in a number of ground-breakings that we had. dick menendes, the director of the federal highway administration, supported the project and provided us with a number of dollars that actually made the entire funding package work. that project is under way. other locals who help us, the executive director of the san francisco transportation authority, supervisor mirkarimi participated in

we know what we need to do. the challenge that we have is institutionalizing that learning and bringing others on board to understand how they can have an impact. i am very happy to say that that process hasn't really stopped and deputy superintendent yee and his group of smart team members have already met around that question. what is effective? what do we continue to fund? and what do we propose to the board that we discontinue funding in terms of really using our ponies wisely to fund what we know is effective. >> commissioner wynns. >> i'm sorry. i have one more question. >> okay. go ahead. >> oh i know what i wanted to sc. just as a corollary. katie francis gave me some data and there's some issues on kids taking the cma, how many kids are taking it? you touched on some of this. i would like to see an analysis what is the use of the cma, particularly in the superintendent zone and does -- i mean the ideas -- has the bottom been sort of cut off in the superintendent zone as well as as she demonstrated in so

we are like a bank except we are nonprofit. we are 501 c 14. we are insured up to 250,000. we build credit. what we do a lot is one-on-one counseling. we are also a part of the bank of san francisco, so we do pay their lending -- payday lending. we help people build up their credit before helping them to get a bigger loan amount. especially people who want to start a small business. credit unions offer micro loans. we do a lot of micro loans up to $50,000. this is -- we check credit. we need a business plan. then we look at the three-year tax return and that statement. we do a lot of home care and mom-and-pop shops. we also do start ups. we asked for approval through documents. we work a lot with people who do not know how to file taxes properly. we are mainly focused in san francisco. we are small. we focus mainly on the tenderloin, chinatown, bayview, visitation. we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate t

even if it does not come, we should request it. >> i think we should -- we can get that for you. >> we just completed clearing 864 blocks to be repaid in san francisco out of the 2600 that will be done over the next three years. it is an ongoing process. it is a combination of forces the department of public works has hired additional staff. it will continue to work all year round. they bring in contractors when they are doing multiple blocks in a row. all of that is information we can provide to you. the other question, we have invested in a permanent tracking system. we can track everybody working on the streets of san francisco. we can see when the street is going to be temporarily paved or completely repaid. -- repaved. president moran: ok. my guess is some of those catches for not done by good journeymen. and it shows. any other questions on communications? moving on to other commission business. this is our first meeting since mr. kelley was appointed by the mayor, i should make acknowledgment of that. it seems somewhat redundant given the testimonies we heard earlier. it is none

we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: all right, please welcome david barber to the program, the noted author and furious at the center for the philanthropy and civil society at the university of new york. he is also the founder of interdependent state. it celebrates its 10th anniversary in l.a., and he joins us from new york. it is good to have you on the program. >> thank you, tavis. good to be here. tavis: the democrats in charlotte and republicans in tampa, where u.s. public policy is concerned, talk to me about what you have heard over these past two weeks and why not of it sounds to me like we are going to be working together over the next few months. >> well, i am afraid last week and particularly even this week, there is a lot about what america is going to do, but the reality is, we live in a world that it is not going to be

are not dodgers fans, we only do this when we have a water system that we want to talk about. and i wanted to thank the supervisor for being here and you know, the commissioners, as well, for being here and all of the parties that ed has mentioned. five years ago, when ed harrington took up this mantle of being the general manager for the puc, it was also around the same time that then the mayor asked me to go down to new orleans and take a look at what they did not do to safe themselves from all of the years of recovery that they have had to engage in. that they are still doing as of today. one of the big lessons that i found out at that time is that they did not invest properly in the infrastructure knowing that disaster was in front of them, having experienced a flooding and the gates of their water barriers having melted down a couple of times, even before then. so when ed harrington obviously knew that history as well and he took up this leadership, five years ago. he had a very focused determination of getting this water system improvement program, not only up and runnin

host: we believe in it there. -- we will leave it there. thank you for being on the "washington journal." we want to let the viewers know what will be on the program tomorrow. we will have a rock christiansen, a cheap political reporter for the charlotte news. he will help us kick off the coverage in charlotte as low as look at the north carolina politics. we will also be talking to dr. susan roberts. she will talk to was about the political situation in north carolina. then we will have a discussion with brian butler of the lgbt democrats. they will be here to talk to us about gay and lesbian issues in the election. thank you for joining us for this edition of the "washington journal." we will see tomorrow morning a 7:00 a.m. eastern. -- we will see you tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> what coverage of the democratic convention from north carolina. it is like here and c-span. coming up, and look at how the campaigns are using social media. we will take you live to a campaign rally with mitt romney in cincinnati. o>> it is great to

i'm tired of being told we can't. i say we can. we can do better, and we must. [applause] >> president bush, one minute. >> well, i don't have time in 30 seconds, or whatever -- a minute -- to talk about our health care reform plan. the oregon plan made some good sense, but it's easy to dismiss the concerns of the disabled. as president i have to be sure that those waivers, which we're approving all over the place, are covered under the law. maybe we can work it out. but the americans with disabilities act, speaking about sound and sensible civil rights legislation, was the most foremost piece of legislation passed in modern times, and so we do have something more than a technical problem. governor clinton clicked off the things -- he's going to take on insurance companies and bureaucracies. he failed to take on somebody else -- the malpractice suit people, those that bring these lawsuits against -- these frivolous trial lawyers' lawsuits that are running the costs of medical care up 25 to 50 billion. and he refuses to put anything, controls, on these crazy laws

we of state security -- we updat -- upped security for the weekend. good second is the bartender, and third thing is we have a meeting, so we showed them the venue. we took them to the venue and walk them through the plans, and he is ok with it. i left the card for nicklaus, so you are welcome to talk with him. >> before we hear from the police department, to the commissioners have any questions for the applicant? >> i have a question for staff. you included in the binders petition for contacts, but the application was not here? >> it was only for saving the paper. i am happy to show you whatever you want. i have the whole file right here. >> how about these conditions? >> there are no specific conditions, but i will give you the first set as a starting point. >> you want to read them off for us? >> you are going to hire a security company? >> we do. >> can you describe the process of your community outrage and maybe some of the things you learn to hearing that? >> -- you learned during that? >> we have about a two-hour meeting with him, so basically

we have a lot of challenges we are facing. am doing everything i can to put us back on track. >> let's talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with the plans for the america's cup? >> i have been a huge fan of the america's cup. i am proud of this board came together unanimously after a fairly contentious debate to support bringing the america's cup to san francisco in 2013. it is estimated it will not only be an incredible sporting event, not only showcase our city and the natural amphitheater of the bay, but it is estimated to bring in over $1 billion in economic activity with 8000 to 9000 jobs. it will be a lot of fun. i am very excited. >> should we spend money to keep the 49ers? >> i just had a conversation with the head of the organization. i told him that i and many others would love to do what we can to keep our beloved 49ers here in san francisco. they are having a conversation with santa clara. we think they need to be part of a city that is in their name. there is so much history i

it would mean we have to cut much deeper than i think we would have to if we face the fact we made over commitments in social security and medicare. if you're willing to start with those programs and tell grover norquist he can put his plans where the sun doesn't shine, you can do it without having to savage the things we depend on in nebraska. >> this will be our final question. 45 seconds. no rebuttals. >> political candidates or other political campaigns as we know can be brutal these days and appeared be more toxic in the last few years. as candidates, are there things you have done that you wish you did not have to do to win office? if so, what are they? >> there are trade-offs. the biggest and most difficult tradeoff is the one you make with your family. this puts a big burden on my wife and son. i would not say i regret the decision, but am very conscious of what happens. all of this complaining about how terrible things are, nobody is going to shoot me like byrd did with hamilton. you have to do the work. we have to solve the problem. we have to accept the facts say we have to d

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we have that motion. we will do that without objection. then the budget analyst had made a few recommendations to change language to reflect up to five years and also place a budget committee reserve on the pending program details. this is for the $2 million for go solar, 2 million for energy efficiency and 2 million for additional studies. colleagues, we have that motion. just a question for the city attorney whether or not that would be substantive. >> city attorney, would not be substantive. >> okay. do we have a motion to accept those recommendations? we will do that without objection. now we have document amended with some changes or accepted recommendations. colleagues, any motion on the floor for underlying item? or comments. supervisor avalos? >> well, i actually would like to -- we could move forward with recommendation. i want to thank all the parts of our city. i want to go back to 1999, when then supervisor tom ammiano initiated the whole work on developing the clean power sf program. that long-term commitment finally paid off

we have made a commitment that we are going to try a pilot effort with probably three vehicles that we would be able to store at city view storage on treasure island for a 3-month period. we are working through the details. but she advises that she has the support and agreement from the private storage company and the support of the treasure island office and this will be the first time that we could say, if you move into a stablization room, we will store your vehicle for a three-month period and as long as you remain in case management. that vehicle will be stored without expense and see if we can provide something successful. i do want to say that for the purposes of our office, i have a very constructive relationship with the coalition on homelessness. and i am very grateful for the advocacy that they provide and the leadership, working with the member of the board on an advac to improve the emergency shelter and rapid rehousing and to be sure that the centers that are entry points where homeless are marginally housed to be better served. >> one of the first individuals that i met

we have been relentless in what we did, the bottom up process and we asked them what they wanted to have as their economic future. and try to -- we had 13,that pal over the state and trying to find an economic vision for the state county by county. how do we become more pro- business? we heard people wanted to -- safety and more pro-business and less red tape and access to capital. it wanted a good education system. it is training so businesses can get the right workers. it is best known for its ski resorts and quality of life. the real challenge we have been working on in turning this thing around is to say, how do we become the most pro-business state? california will be more pro- business. oregon will be more pro- business. how to create that competition to be the most pro-business state but to hold ourselves to higher standards. we want to be the best of being pro-business. that focus, trying to get the partisanship to -- our legislators and state voters are one-third independent, republican and democrat and our legislature is almost evenly divided. if we pass our budget last week wi

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we need to keep pushing. do we go forward? do we continue doing more? or do we go backward? >> i like to follow up. the interest rates right now. they are historically low. the key setting new -- they keep setting new lows. the federal reserve said they intend to keep them as low as possible for a long time. a big frustration on the part of many americans who cannot access those rates to refinance because they may not have the credit scores that are still under water on their homes or savings for a down payment. what would you say to those people who feel that frustration of not being able to access that? what more can be done? what would you say to them? what would you think the government should push for? >> this is an absolutely critical question. this is critical for individual families. even with an 11% reduction in the number of underwater families in the first six months of this year, we still have over 10 million families under water. they owe more on their homes and their homes are worth. '90s term -- 90% are paying their bills every month. they're doing everything

we know we have more work to do. we know we are not there yet.r years when i haven't been grateful, as an american, the barack obama is our president because he has the courage to make the tough decisions. speaking of tough decisions, last week, we heard at the republican convention, we heard the opponent pledge that they, too, had the courage to make the tough calls. that is what they said. but folks, in case you didn't notice, i say to my fellow americans, they didn't have the courage to tell you what calls they would make. they never mentioned any of that. [applause] mrs. robinson, you watched from home, i guess. you heard them talk about how they cared so much about medicare. how much they wanted to preserve its. that is what they told you. let's look at what they didn't tell you. what they didn't tell you is that the plan to have already put down on paper would immediately cut benefits of for more than 30 million seniors already on medicare. what they didn't tell you what is the plan they are proposing would cost medicare to go bankrupt by i

why do we wait? why do we restrict them? why do we slow it down? they want to make high school and go pro. why is it our business to interfere? congratulations. go. explore. do the best you can. go out and the approach. make a gazillion dollars. high-school, they're not competitive. they come to us. we have a little bit of a minor league operation here. football does not want to do the minor league operation. we do it for them. we tried to give these kids a chance because we know so few of them will go pro. but the numbers. practically none of them go pro. the chance of going pro and making a career in professional football is tiny compared to the number of student athletes. most of them make reasonable progress. we have instituted rules and regulations to try and increase the focus on academics. i am all for making a minor league in football. football is not interested in that. baseball has the minor leagues. large numbers of our students get recruited and they're gone. the go to the professional leagues. congratulations. the go to the minor leagu

when we went public we knew the stock would be volatile. amazon over 17 years now ultimately the stock will take care of itself. let me talk about what that vision is. if he can say something about how mobile is doing well that is hopeful. he does not want to get in the business of apologizing and holding people's hands when the stock goes down. he can't control that. >> let's check in with julia live inside the conference where we are awaiting zuckerberg. what are you hearing about this interview? >> we do expect this interview to start any second now. the security here is incredibly tight. there are about 3,100 people in the auditorium all buzzing about whether or not tech crunch founder will really push zekerburg on the ipo. facebook stock has gained over 7% since tech crunch announced that zuckerberg would be speaking here. we don't expect any major news but zuckerberg is sure to address the broader questions for what the company has been focused on since may. he will talk about mobile growth with the stock drop threatening to impact em

>> what we do is we test using broadband, a steady noise.h one sound, you get one answer and another you get another answer. the sound levels differ over the place. we did was the standard objective sound isolation test that allows us to settle -- set a limit. but to your point, after we set the limit of music noise in the gold dust, we checked upstairs to make sure that the math

we are the bad own. we are strong, organized. we have money and we have boots on the ground. are basically fighting this attack we are under right now, the warm workers that we've never seen before and basically that is something completely new. you're taking this on because they realize they cannot cut labor. if they cannot go public employees, they can knock out organized labor and the national right to work that they can basically turn this country around. they'll have a free run because we are the only ones that stand in the way of this movement that they have, that basically is out there to turn america far to the right. so that's the reason why we are under attack as never before appeared we have to keep rattling on. recently i attended the democratic convention and it was an amazing event. i'm a democrat, no surprise. and you know, it was amazing when you contrast that convention with the republican convention, which i watched on television. you know, you had all the speeches from the republicans talking about our forefathers, talking about their aunt or uncle, what a