city that welcomes all people regardless of their ability to spend money. so youth hostels play a vital role in allowing budget travelers to have accommodations within the city itself so we really urge you to support this measure and thank you so much for your time and we really do hope to have your support on this. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello, my name is eric and i'm the operations manager for blazing saddles. we are a tourism company here in san francisco and by supporting this you will be helping the company i work for as well as many, many other companies in san francisco and the bay area. thank you. >> thank you. anybody else wish to comment on item no. 7? all right, seeing none, public comment is closed. i know supervisor avalos had some comments. supervisor mar. >> i just wanted to thank the quote, unquote, community of hostels and i think you are a great example of a real sharing economy and the green businesses that you run, the employees, and how you help promote san francisco's benefits to young people that will bring it back all over the world. but i just wanted to thank you. i did see on the web sites that it looks like some of t

>>resolution consenting to the inclusion of properties within the territory of the city and county of san francisco in the california statewide communities development authority (cscda) open pace program; authorizing the cscda to accept applications from property owners, conduct contractual assessment proceedings, and levy contractual assessments within the territory of the city and county; and authorizing related actions as defined in the resolution. >> okay. thank you so, item number one, is mr. otalini. and... >> good mortgage, good morning supervisors, the last resolution to launch the soft story program for the city and county of san francisco, just to refresh your memory and to give the context, on september 15, 2013, the city noticed, 6600 buildings that were required to comply with a mandatory screening process of the soeft story ordinance and september 15th, 2014 was the end of that deadline and i am pleased to say that we had over a 95 percent compliance rate with the program like this for the first phase and that is unheard of for any program like this and i think that it s

. >> item no. 19, ordinance authorizing the levy and collection of special taxes within city and county of san francisco community facility district no. 2014-1. do i need to call item 20 as well? >> yes, please. >> item 20, resolution authorizing the issuance and sale not to exceed 1.4 million for san francisco community facility district 2014-1 and determining other matters in connection therewith. >> thank you and the presentation is from adam vera from planning, but we also have nadia esse >> i'm here to talk about the transbay district. today's hearing beginning the process for the third and final legislative action required for the formation of this district. as you recall, the transbay and new projects, new develop. projects that come forward within that district will be required as part of their conditions of entitlement to join the district and this would be a special tax on new development. so the actions that you have previously heard include resolving to form the district and calling for a special election. that was at your september 23rd hearing. today's resolutions before y

city. i'm interested in looking at the ways in which native people across the 19th and early 20th centuries claimed and reclaimed spaces within the city. >> can you explain what you mean by those terms, clachled and reclaimed? >> yeah. well, so there's obviously a deep and rich indigenous history in the chesapeake and potomac region. so the federal city today sits on native homelands. so when i'm thinking about reclaiming obviously i'm thinking about reclaiming homeland territory essentially. however, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries as washington became the federal city native diplomats, delegates from communities across the country as well as residents, native people who came here to live maybe to work as lobbyists even, claimed spaces within the city as their own and marked them as indigenous in a number of different ways. i think this is especially important because it does a couple of different things. in terms of thinking about urban history, it complicates our story. i have thought for a long time that the ways in which we concept you'llize native history and urban history are separate. native history is taking p

so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionallydener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees w

especially in the collaboration in cooperation with the mayor's office, and many of the agencies within the city itself. but also within the region. hitting some significant, you know, achievements, working with, you know, cal train, and with the mtc and abag and then we have a number of projects that we have been able to see that go forward. and that we have really been the high point as well for the transportation authority and we are seeing too much and in the mobility agency come together for the leadership and the continuation of the doyle drive as well as the work around the ear for the geary bus, rapid transit, coming for us next year, and the leadership that she has shown within the transportation authority has been quite exceptional and we rated her, you know, according to that and we want to thank you, miss chang for your work and it is really been a pleasure to work with you this past year. i will be not serving as chair, after this year, but i know that there will be other folks coming in. but it has been a real pleasure to work with you and i have been proud in the work in the trans

resolutions like this, which is what it is, and to really do everything we can to address the inequities within city, as you point out, but also to do our best to support you so with funds and with other types of political support as well. so i just wanted to thank you but also agree with a number of the comments from our former legal counsel, supervisor campos, and urge both sides, put your heads together and we'll do everything we can to help as well. thank you. >> thank you. i also want to say to you, supervisors, thank you for all the support you give to your schools in your particular districts and the way that you serve actually the students in your districts. i just want to say thank you very much on behalf of the board of education. >> president fuer, i think supervisor yee wanted to say something. >> yes, supervisor yee. >> as i was saying, your comments really are refreshing to me to have somebody come here to talk about kids like this. >> i agree. >> thank you. yes, and supervisor yee, you were working really hard to get your daughter a really good raise. >> by the way, i think that labor

host: are you within the city limits in los angeles? caller: yes, i am. : there is a story talking about raising the minimum wage to $15 25 within the city limits. it should cause concern. the prices will reflect this big change. so many people won't be able to afford the new prices. it will create a worse problem that is for the homeless. athink california has homeless population that exceeds most other states anyway. as far as the actual wage hike, is that something you would support in los angeles? caller: they do need a wage hike but they also need to cut the hours of work as well. that would enable more people to be able to go to work. we need to stop this socialization at work anyway. too much time is spent making friends and having parties or what have you. we need to change. america needs to change. host: we are talking about the minimum wage for the first 45 minutes. florida, independent line, good morning. caller: how are you doing? the argument has always been that if you rates -- raise the min wage, people would lose jobs and cannot afford it a

during this unstable period, the firemen fear the potential of the dry chaparral and oak all within the city boundaries of los angeles. the fastest burning groundcover in the western hemisphere. nestled in the cover, one of the greatest concentrations of high value homes in america. a serious problem in fire protection even under the best of conditions. on the morning of november 6, 1961, fire department dispatchers find conditions far from the best. the santa ana winds are strong. humidity and moisture rock-bottom, fire danger extreme. a condition of high hazard is declared throughout. standby companies are moved up to stations near brush areas. to strengthen the circle of protection. even as they move, trouble strikes. at 8:15 a.m., an alert of fire is relayed to the officer in command. >> all units concerned, it reported brush fire in the mountain area. 3600 block stone canyon. >> the division chief responds immediately. clouds of smoke are already vigi visible. the chief calls for additional companies. the fire is starting from its point of origin north of mulholland on stone canyon, it

homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the cityr work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and >> hi, my name is jamie hooper. in this episode, we are featuring the romantic park locations in your very own backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog lovers. it is as old as its neighbor and both have a significant forest, a refreshing retreat from urban life. the pass that meander we do under a canopy of 0, redwood, pine, and eucalyptus. chill out and this environment and you might see butterflies and dandelions. blue jays fly between the eucalyptus. it is ada accessible. public transit is plentiful. six, 24, or 71 bus. we

truly bringing back this sister building of this true community interit has been is an anchor within our city and the visitacion valley center for well over 95 years and supervisor you said one hundred years this has been a place for residents this place is a place for parents to come to seek support services for their children to learn how to support their babies a as they develop e develop a place for youth for mentor and place for seniors for nutritious meals for opportunity to congregate and socialize to bring meaning to their lives i'm proud to be standing here with the city community and our community balances partners to revitalize this center and bring that back to its full glory of what was was before i'm proud and committed as folks to bring the services back here to insure that our young people whether they're coming from school back into they're community there's a safe place to come to if they want that first opportunity for career development come here for the skills tests apartment that need support for after-school program and services they can come here and receive the suppor

city will get an hour to present, l.a., d.c., s.f. and then boston. >> expected to itch, but the games would not take place just within the city limits. within about 45 minutes, we'll tell you what s.f.'s proposal would be for the 2024 games. the usoc has to pick s.f. and the olympic committee would have to pick the site and that's a decision that will be made a couple years from now. reporting live for here in the stay, we get a live look outside right now. one of our producer's mom, megan's mom is celebrating her birthday. >> maybe her daughter will buy her a new umbrella. >> i got to tell you, happy birthday. happy, happy birthday. your daughter does a fantastic with skbrn we tip our hat to them and their moms because they raised some wonderful kids. everyone's smiling. you're welcome. time's up. we've got rain on the radar and it is coming in pretty steadily right now in the south bay. but that's about it. as i widen out, you can see things are starting to improve, until we get into this this evening, into tonight. so thanks for sticking with us through last week's storms, through this week's storms. as we head through the next co

and city alderman ed burke -- himself a former police officer -- wants to take it a step further, by passing a law *forbidding any peace officer within the city limits from using the chokehold. it now teaches its officers that any submission hold must permit a suspect to breathe. burke would like city council to enact the new law, as early as tomorrow. a west suburban school is closed for the next two days, because of a flu outbreak. nancy loo is live in lagrange park with more.. nancy? >> school ended early yesterday here at the nazareth academy and costas will not resume until thursday because so many students and staff are suffering from the flu. according to school officials, the outbreak has affected 25 percent of the 730 students that are here along with a significant number of staff and building workers. administrators decided to shut it all down to limit exposure and allow recovery time even though final exams are scheduled for next week. just last week they were celebrating their state championship football team that is special pep rally. but now members of the team along with 200 kids and staff are out with the flu. the sch

targeted the transition of green house gas power we're actually, the first green bond issuance within the city of san francisco there are a few within the state of california but i can count them on both hands that is a new area we see that it is an opportunity for us to reach out to different investors that might not consider investments and more importantly folks in the category of the marketplace to it is a potential tint we'll be careful we want to make sure we're not making promises we can't keep so they'll be good issues. >> there's a lot of documents i can appreciate their voluminous so i'll point out the first the one this is the master indenture the second one that is important for you your consideration is the preliminary official statement and those two documents are important because they talk about the disclosures of the enterprise and more importantly the slide talks about the indenture the first one we wanted this documents to be as consistent as possible we're creating a third enterprise that will issue revenue bonds and make sure that the documents we put forward are similar w

official can donate it to charity within thirty days if the city official don't anything within the thirty days again, they're not subject to reporting or limited requirements >> now guest disclosure i'm going many of you have emancipation proclamation be countered throw in the form 6 hundred and need to file upon taking office and soon after leaving office as well under state law the officials are to report $50 from a single force if someone give us 320 there's guests you'll have to report those and certainly if it's under 50 bucks you don't have to report that in addition to the guest disclosure requirement there is also an annual guest limit of $440 currently from a single source it is $440 as of january it is to there to $460 null the next couple weeks in addition to the annual guest limit there is a local rule regarding guests it is the local restricted source rule an official can't accept a guest and two types of of restricted source anyone or entities doorknob with our department and seeking to do business wanting to enter into a contract with the de

within the city, 95 looking good. no problems at all as far as snow goes, that is, volume wise, southbound, delays from cottman in through girard. icy conditions, reported out here, along route 611, all north of that pennsylvania turnpike. and an accident in the neighborhood at welsh and water drive. south jersey again wet roads, and just slow traffic coming in toward philadelphia. nothing out of the ordinary there. because of the weather conditions, all of the bridges have speed restrictions in play, and so far so good at philly international. no delays on arrivals and departures. but you may want to just check with your airline to play it safe before you head down there today, chris, kerry, back to you. >> very good. good idea. 6:18, midnight is the deadline for congress to reach a deal on spending bill that would keep the government running, negotiations this morning, are hitting a bit after hurdle. democrat would like provisions that weaken financial regulation, allow richer people to donate more money to politica

whether it's large or small-scale is while mobile hierarchies are being developed it is important within the city with the needs to slow down traffic and pedestrian safety is the number one priority within the mta next point had to do with the agency cooperation issues so one of the first ones we've done is to convene principle level workshops with the department of public works and with the city engineer groups and i and our staff are going through and looking for barriers the things with are sloan the schedules where outreach or funding or contracting and knocking those barriers over one-on-one we've benefited from having a coalition that pulls together the policy and direction of vision zero they're focused and very, very focused leadership at the agency level to commit to getting those projects down u done there was a reference in the report among the cultural question he another really good breakdown through public works is achieving the projects one of the champs that was raised in san francisco this is true in any city when you want to build a lot of small projects that is what vision zero

design guidelines put an emphasis why here in the city and strive to strike 9 balance with the dense development that is existing and going to occur within the city with that in mind it was determined it was in compliant with the tools and documents to try to strike that balance and it was approved so considering no new information the department feels that permit was issued appropriately i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> all the objections were raised at this time. >> yes. and also i need to you notice the law firm i retained i can look at the briefs and make a fair judgment. >> mr. duffy so we'll take public comment any public comment on that item? everyone can please step forward it will help us move along feast stand on the one side of the room please whoever wants to speak first come forward. >> commissioner president lazarus. >> good evening thank you for taking the time to hear us i'm one of the owners on 27th street the reason i'm here to sport i o support my tenants that are greatly effected by the addition by the project on 27th street i was not present at the i believe that was a meet-and-greet meeting they ha

. >> sue gets a new home after her owner is cited for keeping a wild animal within city limits. >> sueest primate habitats in north america. sue will eventually join the chimpanzee troop. looking back, sergeant bloomquist says the incident is a little funny, but it could have had an entirely different outcome. >> if his fist or his leg would have come through there, i think at that point something a little more serious might have happened. >> for police, dealing with a chimp is an unusual occurrence. but dealing with speeding cars, that's an everyday hazard. this state trooper is about to meet his hazard head-on. it's june 2005 and tennessee state trooper rodney redman is working a crash investigation. he's about to become part of another one. >> i heard a tire squealing on an suv and saw a gray suv coming toward me and i tried to get out of its way. >> but redman can't respond quickly enough. >> i got about one step and the vehicle struck me and flipped me in the air. >> he hits the highway hard and knows he's in trouble. >> i said if i don't get up, get out of here, i'm going to get

now passed it's important we really firm in those dates so we can start talking that will be within the city of san francisco and board room. >> yes. i want to say on wednesday we had a discussion i wanted to follow up on publication in terms of risk 3 different publications on the first is standard mitigation and the hedge fund the second by harry this is the cf a the hedge fund it talks about things i haven't heard in terms of risks and by the h e.c. business school the risk and management service center the difficulties of risk of the hedge funds and cover the total risk i want to share those with you, you can respond through the analysis we're saying that the risk is a subsequential publication. >> so i'll share those with you. >> we received those via e-mail this morning. >> anything else seeing no one. >> i'd like to make a comment i love the space and the community and staff it was difficult to move so my space is nice it's in front of of the station. >> very interests that this is the closest from muni to bart to the front door of the city. >> immediately in front. >> if you can make

city. i'm interested in looking at the ways in which native people across the 19th and early 20th centuries claimed and reclaimed spaces withinthe city. >> can you explain what you mean by those terms, clachled and reclaimed? >> yeah. well, so there's obviously a deep and rich indigenous history in the chesapeake and potomac region. so the federal city today sits on native homelands. so when i'm thinking about reclaiming obviously i'm thinking about reclaiming homeland territory essentially. however, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries as washington became the federal city native diplomats, delegates from communities across the country as well as residents, native people who came here to live maybe to work as lobbyists even, claimed spaces within the city as their own and marked them as indigenous in a number of different ways. i think this is especially important because it does a couple of different things. in terms of thinking about urban history, it complicates our story. i have thought for a long time that the ways in which we concept you'llize native history and urban history are separate. native history is taking pl