eisenman, joseph walsh, and wilkinson, four media and on behalf of the full board for the late dr. jose. >> can there be any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you.

eisenman, joseph walsh, and wilkinson, four media and on behalf of the full board for the late dr. jose. >> can there be any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, welcome to the border supervisors' meeting of july 20, 2010. will you please call the roll? >> supervisor alioto-pier, present. supervisor avalos, absetn. -- absent. daly present. dufty present. elsbernd present. mar present. mirkarimi present. avalos, present. mr. president, all members are present. president chiu: can you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? [pledge of allegiance] president chiu: colleagues, you should have copies of the minutes. a motion by supervisor mirkarimi, second by supervisor maxwell. without objection? >> i have no communications, mr. president. president chiu: we have a special order in case the president wishes to appear in front of the board. i see mr. waggoner. are we expecting the mayor today? >> [inaudible] president chiu, do not believe the mayor will be here today. president chiu: that is unfortunate. >> it

eisenman, joseph walsh, and wilkinson, four media and on behalf of the full board for the late dr. jose. >> can there be any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you. >> good morning. to date is july 21, 2010. this is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item on the agenda is the oath. anyone giving testimony today, please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you are about to give it is the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. new appeal order of abatement case. the owner of record is karen. action requested this be abatement be ordered and the cost assessment fee be waived. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a senior housing inspector. let me give you the time line of the case. this is a single-family property. basically, our division responded to a complaint in august 2002, an anonymous complaint that a deck had been built without the proper planning department approvals. inspections confirmed this in 2002, and a

eisenman, joseph walsh, and wilkinson, four media and on behalf of the full board for the late dr. jose. >> can there be any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you. i feel like all of us are starng to see what the problems in this country are. i think plenty of people are opinionated. i don't think there's many forums where you can really express yourself or try to make a difference or anything. i mean...wha'...whatdo... what do i do, ya' know? the only people that i'm able to affect are the people who care about what i have to say. there is something you can do, but i'm sure it wouldn't be, uh...easy. different man: i get angry about it, but it's like... ya' know, in my own apartment. [laughs] >> all right. thanks for your patience and taking the time to be here. we wanted to give you a briefing and update on our midyear crime stats. as chief gascon promised we will keep you informed to reach our ambitious goals that the chief set out with the command staff and members present. let me create a quick context. in 2008 the middle p

for more on the worsening violence, we turn to tracy wilkinson, the mexico city bureau chief for "the los angeles times." >> tracy, the headlines are shocking. 21 dead in a gun battle, 19 in a drug rehab center, 13 killed at a party. three and a half years in the mill tarization of the war against the drug gangs is the state of the violence rising, the tide of violence rising still? >> yes, in fact, as you mentioned, more than 23,000 people killed since december of 2006. we're still tallying up june but it's going to be one of the deadliest months yet so indeed the violence continues, the number of dead continues to rise. right now part of that is related to the elections but really quite apart from that, we have just enormous numbers of people being killed in part because the government forces are going after the cartel. but also because they're fighting among themselves for control of routes, territory, power. and so increasingly, i mean there doesn't seem to be an end in sight to this kind of violence and it continues to increase. >> along with the rising numbers, has there also be

we recruited bud wilkinson. we need to do that at the state level as well. all of this can get us in the right direction on these lists and created a great quality of life for our children as well as adults. >> mary fallon. >> let me say it is a great opportunity to be here tonight, and i appreciate having the opportunity to share the vision for the state of oklahoma, and we appreciate being on the campus, and i want to thank all the people for joining us tonight. we appreciate you coming as candidates. it is unacceptable for the state to be at the bottom of so many lives when it comes to health. too high a rate of obesity and heart disease. we have too many children that experience child abuse, too much domestic violence, too much drug addiction, and we are too good of the state to have those kinds of numbers. they are a drag upon our economy and our health and certainly are healthy lifestyles and the state, so as governor, one of the top priorities of mine would be to do everything i can to work on improving these numbers, so how do we do that? one thing w