of opposition to it and it is going to be tough, but ours again and we have it look out for the whole city and the case is made well for the involvement of the small business community and the work of mt a and i would like to make a suggestion that your commission, came up with 12 different suggestions and we have several as well. and i think that it would be very unwhiledy to try to deal with tonight and i would suggest that we consider asking our staffs to work together on some of the most sale ent recommendations and to come back and we could meet again in six months or three months or whatever and talk about the specific things that will show essentially how the mta reaches out to and involves the small business community early on in the process. and i would hope that something like that would you know that recommendations could come to codify some of those things and at what point do we check with the businesses? you know? and the community. any way i would like to offer that suggestion it is not detailed of course, but it would be a way of moving forward. >> i agree with that. and ma

direction connect to the history of the city being a city of immigrants 35 percent of all the small businesses in san francisco was owned by an immigrant. our whole history this city's been built on good immigrants who found ideas and employed others. and today that story has not changed. i think that the businesses in succeed if we have good sound business policies but we make sure there's comprehensive immigration reform. because we've he learned over the years is that there are millions of people in the state of california and undocumented folks in san francisco that are not part of our official economy that are hiding. because of fear that will not participate in health prevention because of fear. because of that we have to have an immigration policy it is forward-looking and make sure there's a path to censorship[p. we're in a worldwide talent war. are we going to lose to other great cities or are we going to make sure we're getting the talent. i know the conversations are a bit sensitive but we're not taking anything away from our companies. i have investments in europe where we train residents to be part of the technology we have but at th

join you and your colleagues especially our mayor who has a relationship with this part of the whole cityof course, but this was his baby and he's done a remarkable job. when we cut relishes at another that i have i tip my hat to president obama for helping to make business grow in this part of town. it's great to see you again jeremy. he brought some of the enthusiasm to washington for yelpless recently. and erica congratulations on our work here. lisa and matt congratulations on our awards how wonderful. but it's a principle for me to be here as your representative in congress to the new headquarters but a building of great tradition and that's in our city. this whole faith is built on technology and really save in community because community is what yelp is all about. yelps success is living proof that american business doesn't want just service a small community but this whole community. from the beginning this torrid company acknowledged that this can be a good model of bits. and certainly there's no befrt place to test this model but in san francisco. consider where we are today 140

also very rich with latino leaders in our department and to name some of them on behalf of the whole city people like lou our librarian and our director of public health and rich the superintendent of our school district. yes (clapping) and i i know i'm going to miss a few but i want to single out those i've worked with closely and we have so many things going on that i'm proud of. we have a lot to celebrate. this year has been a year of success and there's so much it's going on. you may already know who important chiropractics of our california latino community it's one of the most faster growing populations if the state of california. its also a very young population. and i'm looking around the countryside you're all younger than manufacture me. tonight is a special occasion to celebrate our youth in san francisco because you represent the 1 hundred percent of our city. so i'm glad to be here tonight. guess what we've been able to celebrate our unemployment rate is 5.6 percent. a lot of people are working. and you know why we're the third lowest that but san mateo we hire all those peop

and we've been pass -- we'd been passing by two days before the attack happened in 2008 when the whole city was, basically, held hostage by ten gunmen. of and unlike 9/11 where lots of great books were promulgated like looming tower, mumbai didn't really have a book that really summed up the terror, and cathy and i were determined to do justice to what happened in 2008 and put together what we hoped was a tribute to the heroes of of mumbai and an explanation for why that kind -- what that kind of terror really means. >> we came back a long time after and talked to the hotel, and we went to pakistan and spoke to the families of the attackers and also to agencies there and spoke to the organization that planned the attack. so, and the idea of kind of coming up with the story is you wait for the dust to settle and then get more information. we really wanted to get the book -- or. [inaudible] the reason for it, what they were trying to achieve and also to get the human stories of those who had been caught up in it. >> so what were some of the key findings? >> key findings were that like many re

posted the next exciting event here putting our whole cities municipal code into get hub (clapping) >you know what that means? that's credible. when i talk about bureau categorize nobody knows whether it effects our streets our parks or vehicle code the way we build offices this year so many laws public safety and others that it compacts so to post this on the get hub and to allow get hub to be our way in which people what navigate to break it down to make t it usedable by other coders it's kind of like sailing we have had to learn with taking was and to have that on the screen in front of us and how we, in fact, our waters is exactly how get hub z is doing it. where your code is able to be found at mayor's office of civic innovation dot get hub dot l o slash open law. i'm excited to see what gets build and shared. and, of course, we're working with the open law project it's guided us to this kickoff. i'm excited to see something that's been to bureaucratic. by the way, i'm a lawyer my background i used to cause a lot of trouble in the city by you used to explain to a lot of bilingual

part of the world and we've been passing by two days before the attacks happened in 2008 when the whole city was basically held hostage. unlike 9/11, where lots of great books were promulgated, books by steve: other writers. i didn't really see the book that summed up the terror. kathy and i were determined to do justice to what happened in 2008 and put together what we hope was a tribute to the heroes of mumbai and an explanation for what that kind of terror really means. >> so did you return while i was going on? or did you come back several weeks later? how did you cover this? >> were the last people to the story. so we came back a long time after. we went and spoke to the families and also to security agencies and the organization that planned the attacks. so any idea, not the story get more information. the reason for her, what they were trying to achieve and get the human stories. >> what were some of the key findings? >> the key finance were like many in the u.k. there are lots of missed opportunities to intervene before the attacks happened. there were several occasions -- [inaudible

and we've been passing by two days before the attacks happened in 2008 when the whole city was basically held hostage by ten gunmen. and unlike 9/11 where lots of great books were promulgated by looming tower and books by other great writers, mumbai didn't really see a book that summed up the terror. and kathy and i were determined to do justice to what happened in 2008 and put together what we hope was a tribute to the heroes of mumbai and an explanation for why that kind -- what that kind of terror really means. >> so did you return while the siege was going on, or did you come back several weeks later? how did you cover this? >> we, basically, we always wait until the story has died down. we're the last people to the story. so we came back a long time after and visited people and talked to the hotel. and we went to pakistan and spoke to the families of the attackers and also to -- [inaudible] also to the organization that planned the attack. so, and the idea of coming up with the story is you wait for the dust to settle, and then you get more information. we really wanted to get to th

. >> the whole city was great as , the way theys treated me and my family and the players.of the season due to a back injury according to espn. felt soreness in his back prior to yesterday's game and it apparently worsened. speaking of yesterday's game, the injury did not seem to hamper his abilities. and td's26 yards, another to demarco murray and he threw an interception. they continued to spiral downward but only one game left. mike shanahan survived black monday and finishing off the remainder of his contract. take a listen. >> i love these guys created that been working extremely hard to put this thing together. we have had a couple of bumps which we all now. with the salary cap. i am looking forward to building this football team but like i said, it is a situation where i will sit down with them and go from there. he will no longer being [inaudible] lhe one time superbown champ wide to give fans something to remember. >> the reception i got today and peopleout the week, bought me lunch. was glad toi announce that this would be my last season. >> we should be a little

told josh i had seen in a magazine where necessary had solar in some other country they did the whole city in solar and it was a poor city. here we're a thriving city so i'm the one that speaks on behalf of solar and want you all to make sure you continue to give to those who are doing the work this should be done. one of the things that happened with this group they hired the young people and trapped them to do solar and at bayview's hunter point. you don't have to be an trademark to put solar open roofs >> any other public comment seeing none, all. >> the policy for the city and county in our packet today is a explanatory document it's the draft resolution and speakers renewable energy it's an informational item. >> we'll lose our commissioner but not before he steps. >> he already said it in terms of the benefits the solar can have in the community. it's innovate all about saving money but making jobs. one of the things we are trying to do i think with this reds is encouraging the city to mandate solar on new construction is to try to reduce the cost of solar for everybody that makes th

development center who's passion is about reaching across neighborhoods and across races and the whole city. he does it with music and love our director of the chinatown reverend. wow. we've got a lot more reverend's. they were involved in the community outreach and we did pretty good but reverend where are you hiding rooend a.m. most brown. it's in the spirit of calculation we rebuttal this with the additional community. you all raise our hand if you've met mary. you you know why she - you know, this is like a feast i didn't community project. we need to celebrate on this day. reverend brown townsend please come forward offering you're fine over there. i heard from reverend mccrepe he did a heck of a great job. we have supervisor and the mayor. the mayor is in a rush but reverend cal jones is something for green to give us the invocation >> i have a wonderful high school called balboa high school. >> we were in the same class but i couldn't play football lord have mercy i placed football and i'm praying pr it's a blessing to see you all here. we're trying to make things happen. as i look a

we've all been together on this and we work very well together to keep the whole city moving. i want to thank the director of transportation. lots of things are happening in this city. a lot of things are planning for the future. but this is so exciting because this is something that people can actually see. they will see it and ride it and enjoy it from the moment the service begins. thank john hailey for this experience. i'm glad to be part of the mta. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mr. chairman. i had the pleasure of working with him. we are very grateful to have his partnership in helping us keep these buses. i love the mayor's challenge at least i heard of the challenge that years down the road we should look at these buses to look as good as they do today. we have support from all of san francisco to keep these great investments to continue to look good. the other one is our transit director john daleey who has spent a lot of time to get these buses to hit the streets as soon as possible in a way that they will be providing great service for us for th

here she was greeted we santa claus, local dignitaries, the whole city has pulled together the it is a surprise. she did not know it was coming but it is the least they could do for a strong little girl. >> the community think she is a hero but when ten-year-old monika were opened the door she had now idea they would be a super hero for the day. surprise! with that, she was whisked away with a police escort took her to the elementary school and she was greeted with students with a sign, a lot to take in for a ten-year-old. >> i could not believe it. they even did a flash mob dance to celebrate their hero. she was diagnosed with plume keepia in april and now is in remission and believes support like this makes her stronger. >> it is hard when the child is going through something like this, they know there are going to be changes in their body and to have the support of the kids and of the teachers, that is really helping. >> this is the idea of the nonprofit group that wanted it do something for a child suffering from cancer. it turns out she is the only child cancer patient in vallej

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building awareness of programs and opportunities we're 32 people but we really do try to cover the whole city and include everyone in our work and that takes time and takes systems and processes and it takes an orientation an external orientation that requires us to be much more clearer in communications and awareness of what we're doing with the city sales tax dollars and how to manage that with accountability. >> how we're deliverying the transportation improvements that they so want and that they so need. on agency and staff development you know our staff are our treasure we could not do what we do without a great staff includes all five divisions of the agency it's a pretty flat organization and my goal would be for us to rise up to the calls that we're being asked to meet in an efficient and sustainable aware for our staff and that might mean some strategic filling in of some layers particularly in the senior and management rank but i think that we can make that work and we can do that step by step and bring a plan forward perhaps in the next budget cycle and explain our ideas in that re

amount of effort targeted at great policy making that's equitable and in the best interest of the whole city and i want to say in looking at some of the maps not only the impacted neighborhoods that supervisor campos and others like the mission, be rna l and neighborhoods at least 2 hospitals with close access to kaiser as well but there's tremendous concern this process creates an equitable process or will help us but i want to ask about the incentive based system and how a consist approvals or consist see with our values would have given more incentive to different projects and where an inconsist project might have been more challenging for the project sponsors and maybe you could use the original proposal saint luke's what would -- how would this process have looked at the original proposal to close saint lukes? and how would it have looked at the large 500 bed -- proposal. >> commissioner with the planning department at previous board hearings that same question was answered. but as a whole and said that project would be considered with this master plan so i don't want to necessarily pul

and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take

attention to the district, to be engaged in projects in the district, but we also represent the whole city. any supervisor that just focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i'd make sure i am working both on the citywide issues and on district issues. >> for those of us on the board, i know many of us have young ben was in the city. i know a ton of my friends have left the city. one thing that the strike me as we have a ton of data, but it is a different places. this year, we will call for those constituents to come together to understand the issue better and, going forward, enacting policies to extend that period . of all the places i have been, this is my favorite. i am a born and raised san franciscan. more important, i represent district 2. i grew up in the marina district close to the palace of fine arts. my parents still live in the same set of plants that i live in. i went to grammar school here. i went to st. ignatius here. i am a proud wild cat. i went to college at loyola- marymount university in los angeles. i had a