have you checked with any other departments, whether city, state, or federal department that you addressedwith? any other department out of the human rights commission here in san francisco? >> well, as i said i didn't address it with the human rights commission because i felt i was on a committee i thought it wouldn't be right, a conflict of interest i thought maybe, but i did contact hud, housing urban development. >> what's the status at hud? >> they have not contacted me back. they said they would investigate and that's the last i heard of it. >> how long was that some. >> that was back in january right after this happened and after it all happened it was just like the whole thing went by the way side so now i'm not eligible for an permanent in mary helen rogers. >> >> >> wow, i suggest you get back to hud and sometimes you have to stay on top of them. >> will do. >> any other questions from the thank -- sub committee? thank you very much. a resource right in the room. how many copies do you have? two. we can share them. thank you very much. next. >> good morning. i am bill hirsch and

whether it's not understanding the shelter system, if they're new to the city. whether it's mental illness and substance abuse, addiction preventing them to think rationally. all that stuff is mixed in. as part of our homeless count this year we surveyed over 1,000 folks on the street and it was a robust survey so we hope to glean more about things like how long have people been on the street, where they came from, why are they not using shelter, have they used shelter in the past, to answer some of these questions. >> supervisor wiener: you know, i think it's -- and this is the frustration throughout the city because we have this -- you know, for decades now, really significant challenge around homelessness. and we spend -- it's $102 million for the programs u described. when you add dph and everything else in there it's significant higher. so we're spending a lot of money, and, you know, i'm a believer in having a policy in it budget discussions based on data. and where it's possible to have that data, so we can make good policy decisions about how we're alloca

it's city taking responsibilities for this or whether insurance companies shouldn't be on the residents that. is our primary concern. >> this it's going to be months before the city know ftz homes can be saved and if more homes under jeopardy. >> caltrans estimating it will cost $1 million to shore up bad bolts on the new span of the bay bridge. testing revealed some of the bolts would fail during an earthquake. some are encased in concrete. caltrans says the eastern span is still going to open labor day as scheduled. >> a cab driver ended up getting arested after patrol suspected him of being drunk behind the wheel. the cab crossed all lanes of southbound u.s. 101 and hit the center divider. this happened about 1:30 in the morning. nobody was hurt in that accident. >> an el cerrito man wanted in qex a gold theft turned himself n the 49-year-old david johnson being held on $1 million bail, named this weekend as a suspect in the case. a second suspect is still wanted two. accused of stealing $1 million in items from a court house display case. this ichb cluds jewelry, artifacts

whether that detonation has taken place. but in the meantime you have an entire city on lock down. in new york during 9/11, you know what that was like. you have an entire region on edge. >> absolutely. thank you for the tick by tick there. on the phone, the executive director of the detroit crime commission. former special agent in charge of the fbi's division. i understand that you were in charge or very involved in the investigation of the underwear bomber. correct? >> can you tell us what you think is happening in the investigation now? how they are proceeding and what they're trying to do here? >> number one, i got the manhunt. they believe they have him cornered in a situation. the second thing is they are going back and interviewing friends, family, aacquaintances. i'm sure they're looking at online activity. facebook, twitter, chat rooms. what they looked at. what they downloaded, to give them a clearer picture. what caused these guys to act like this. what other connection do they have here. >> what does your opinion tell you about this? do you think they acted alone. give

once we know that, whether the city, the department of public health has been awarded the entire grant amount or we might be sharing it with other entities that also filed a grant, as an aside here i will let you know what the amount of the grant that will be awarded in the amount that our office and oawd will have to start developing and outreach an education program around the affordable care act for small businesses and working uninsured. and then, lastly i want to key calendar items, may 8th, sfa ramp it up, annual event; and sbn, small business network has their annual dinner on may 9. and it two commission meetings for may, because of small business weekend memorial day we are having to change the date. the first meeting in may is going to be may 4th, monday, may 6th, 5:30, and may 20th, the third monday of the month. i want to bring it to your attention. with that i conclude my report. >> chair adams: good. thank you director. next item please. >> commissioners, item 9, permitting report. >> the permitting committee met last week. we had a wonderful overview presentationby permi

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 the america arab community because all of us whether we are chinese americas hal teen know arabs is a starts for us to make our life a little more pleasant and own our business and is make sure that our kids get the best education possible and this is a story about immigrants in our great city. and so why not you have the first chinese mayor inviting immigrant community to really identify the talent in our community and allow me to give them appointments in the various moo commission and the city and i want to announce my newest point to the aging commission because per not getting younger i want you to know doctor sham meret tan knee has been selected to be on our commission on aging and yes, he is going

we will tell you whether citi is a good buy. "countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. liz: good afternoon everyone, i am liz claman. unless you have been living under a rock all day, you've likely heard or seen we're experiencing a historic moment and not in a good way if you are long gold. they dropped the likes of which we have not seen in some 33 years and this is no ordinary selloff. down 10 posts and big points, $150. this is the aftermarket session. the biggest one-day drop since february of 1983. that is when ronald reagan was president, and david bowie "let's dance" was number one at the chart. lower-than-expected gross domestic product numbers, coming out of china while most of you were sleeping. but the two are not necessarily related. what is related, the stomach turning drop we have seen in other metals, u.s. commodity prices. keep in mind, silver down 12 percentage points, lower than gold is. getting hammered right now. cover down 1.75%. natural gas and oil also moving lower for the price of oil $88.39 pretty stunning given last week we were about $91 per

this -- whether you're in the dirt poor ghetto or whether you're in beverly hills, whether you're homeless in the cityyou're in high school or college. when you hear that old school hip-hop music, you can relate because it's not just about one class of people. it's about all of us. >> we're now as far away from the '80s as happy days was from the '50s. >> but you haven't touched your food, dear. >> reporter: the '080s loved th 50s. do you remember "back to the future"? the '80s embodied by michael j. fox. also pretty ambivalent about the '60s. case in point? "fame ties." >> it's about a reaganite kid negatively reacting to his parents' '60s ethos. >> why are we doing this, sdmad cooking is women's work. >> alex p. keaton all grown up, paul ryan. >> it's time now for a retro edition of tonight's "closing arguments" taking into account all the elements of pop culture. which decade do you think had more bearing on our culture today, the '80s or the '90s? tell us what you think? thanks for watching abc news. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow for the latest on a shooting at a virginia community co

so whether it was kept in a file drawer, it seems to be a city wide policy, not a department by department policy. i could restate it for you, and really come back to it. whether the records request should be complied with including reference to back up tapes. >> i don't believe that there is a city wide policy. in my experience, departments search their own records. and don't ask the department of technology to also search back up tapes. which i understand and not the expert and you want to talk to someone at dt is a time consuming process. and quite time consuming if you consider how many public records requests come to the city every day. the documents become the records of, or of the technology department. >> that is a complicated for the agency if the deleted records are no longer their own records to search. although it may kick into that other provision that says you have to tell people that there may be something somewhere else that technology folks have on their back up tapes. i am trying to think of what the agency's responsibility is and what standard practice is and what the pu

fiscally responsible direction we've teen, deliberate choice we've made to attract people into our city. whether it's a reform of our housing or infrastructure on the significant challenges we've faced we put the people's priorities head of city hall. and on this course my fellow san franciscans i believe with all my heart we must continue were while these truths have never been self-evident we have to speak of our freedom. the same is our commit to continue the path of progress that we're on today. yet the worse of economic times are behind us we cannot relent to our commit with fiscal prudence with our taxpayers' money. we must not be distracted and retreat from making smart investments in our people in our neighborhood and in our infrastructure. i know that some maybe told me in better times to forsake the people's priorities toward their own selfish progress that's the wrong progress. it doesn't lead to better schools or satisfactory streets let's us instead work until the vitality to reach all people. san francisco must be the place of opportunity and hope for all. there are so many bright

you can take any job training or job placement program in the city, whether it's nonprofit run or city run and you will never find a 50% placement rate. it's a very, very high placement rate number for folks with multiple barriers to employment. so it shows this is an effective strategy. we have a very large public sector to jobs now. so this is a public service trainees in rec and park, dpw, hssa and other city departments. the placements tend to be six months, some can last up to a year. we have been working with dhr to allow those placements to count for mqs for city employment and met minimum qualifications. our staff is working with these clients. they're getting help with their rÉsume, with soft skills, interview skills, things like that, they're connected with us. so we encourage folks to apply for, and get on lists for city employment, and at hssa. we've been able to hire a lot and getting former public assistance recipients working as case worgers in our system. city employment is not the answer to long-term employment. even though we're a very large employer what we do want i

city attorney, mr. malmud, in terms of whether these amendments are approved as to form by the city attorney. >> john malmud from the city attorney's office. the amendment that supervisor kim passed around earlier has not yet been approved by the city attorney's office as to form. >> and how about the amendments by supervisors chiu and yee have been? >> yes. the clerk has the signed version before her. >> okay. and in terms of -- president chiu, may i ask a question of supervisor kim? actually, to mr. malmud. >> i can actually address because we actually just chatted just now. what i'm going to do is i'm going to make a motion to what we would like to see go in as the amendment. and then mr. malmud has agreed to work on it to ensure that we have it ready for the public by the time the agenda is noticed on thursday at noon. so, we're going to spend the next day and a half working on that language. so, that is the motion that i will be making. >> and i think, just for the sake of the public, the idea that's been proposed is that there would be an amendment to address the issue of the sale or contract for the

increase the service level of taxis so that's why a lot of taxis can come mere and improve the city >> whether with 6 hundred more techniques we ultimately have the level of service we would like to see the 15 minute dispatch will reveal itself in terms of reference we looked at zones and with new technology we can where a taxi is and license it to be in certain places. none of the neighborhoods outside the corridor are being serviced. we expect to lay the foundation for using modern technology so i knowed have options. and then my second question is back to the directors question is the increase of the madalinas. and this is on the budget impact of shifting the pricing of the madalinas. i was looking through my comprehensive budget and what will be the impact to the raw budget? >> up until this point we haven't, you know, decided how many of the madalinas would be when we set a price we didn't know maybe every 10 we use the impact would be this. the math is if we were to secure authorization to get 1 hundred would be times 3 hundred thousand or so. that's the budget impact our if you recall w

you might want to verify whether the city attorney is correct in that brown act and sunshine act might be violated if you all talk about it but you can determine that after i talk or you can opine now. but i don't want to take my time. >> it has been introduced. it's going to be reintroduced tomorrow. >>> it's going to be reintroduced. i don't know what you're talking about. the members of the public are talking as if they haven't had a chance to hear it. [speaker not understood]. one other issue. when we had to judge or interpret administratively cases, the question of fair argument was extremely important and i think a lot of that has to do with judgment and interpretation. in fact, the question of whether or not there will be a heavier burden put on [speaker not understood] legalistic issues makes it incomprehensible what it is you're supposed to present. so, i would ask that certainly that would be addressed and i would thank you for your time. >> thank you, supervisor. mr. welch. >>> supervisor wiener, supervisor kim, supervisor chiu. simple fairness would require acknowledgment o

i've been on the waiting list for about the same time i'm totally against adding any new to the city whether it's five medalions or fifty it doesn't matter i think it's a step toward the wrong decision and i just look back to the last when cabs were added and new companies started flourishing in this city. even at the airport can't even get in. used to be an occasional thing and they have to circle back and don't know if they are going to make it so i don't think it's really a good time to be adding the cabs at this moment. i was now i will buy in like steps like this makes me think if they really care about drivers or any way the thing i implore you guys to focus more on collaborating with all of the companies either driver customer cab companies taxi division and put our hands together to be less vulnerable because it's already going on and absolutely not the time to add more cabs. i'm sorry i took too long any way thank you for listening applause. >> good afternoon. one minute really? >> no. >> thank you. brad -- 28 years i have put my name up signed the papers to surrender from these har

city has invested about $25,000 but unfortunately, because of the process the program has taken longer and cost morning it was anticipated. i think we're going to need to think about opportunities whether it's - >> so the city fields foundation is not thinking about replacing turf there will be some deferred maintenance we'll have to do. >> and it will depends on the resources we have. this program this phase of the program an actual completed. we have of plenty of conviction - communications about it. >> okay. great. and then i'm next week we'll be back with our hearing around the gardnering program i'll be looking at to that and a colleagues any questions you have in that you do you want to hear the highlights? >> i think we're good. i think we hit auto the high points. supervisor any questions? >> thank you just had a couple i know this is a budget hearing and having the opportunity to hear this. we we were always trying to figure out ways to generate more revenue for the parks. we know there has been a loss over the years and as a city we're going to have to figure out more creativity ways. it's about that a challenge after becoming supervisor just the challenges we had too fast in