workman described. we support this legislation and encourage the board of supervisors as well. and we thank you supervisor breed to bring on this nuance approach, that works not to punish artists but rather to fight the problem, which is vicious vandalism, thank you and for your good work. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors, i am stephanie greenberg, and i represent district 3 on the graffiti advisory board. i must say that i was thrilled when i heard about supervisor breed's legislation, i couldn't wait to get involved and this is game-changing for the city. for too long this burden has fell on the city and property owners. and there is a general feeling that there is too few consequences for graffiti vandals. and this is true for repeat offenders. with the legislation offering new ways for graffiti offenders. all is important as the information streaming and costs, and the ability for the city to seek civil and administrative actions against the offenders. and of course better protection of our parks and public vehicles against graffiti vandals. i hope t

then i was seen by a workman's comp doctor to determine that the cancer was due to the industry. my body had gone through enough and the removal of my lymph nodes and 4 painful months of chemotherapy, 5 weeks of radiation and severe depression and memory loss and diebdz from the chemo and also the fear of the cancer coming back. i spent my last 6 years in my career anothers station 48 on treasure island and on january 14th i retired. at the angel of 55. requesting disability retirement that's still pending now that i look back i wish if cancer was not the only battle i could have focused on getting better but i had one roadblock after another. don't get me wrong i'm thankful to be alive today. i just pray that no one will have to go through the same roadblocks anywhere with that in place. i'm here today by the grace of god and thank you for giving me this opportunity (clapping.) thank you >> let us hope with the legislation proposed by supervisor chiu and the mayor of san francisco we never, ever have to hear a story like that again. thank you, everyone for attending and god bles

costs a $350,000 from workers' compensation it's also, we do were pretty aggressive with tracking workman's comp and get back to work early it's a do not have reduction in costs and do safety training. so you mentioned two of our budget priorities we're reinvesting in recreation and we are trying to do our part to work on what we believe is a serious obesity or inactivity epidemic. we're working with the school district and working with lots of partners trying to provide more programming designed to get children and seniors outside and running around. on the customer service side one of the enhancement is our human resources function. when we did our recreation model it's been quite successful a few years ago. we probably after looked the hiring we're hiring a lot more people on a temporary basis 80 that have a specific skill and increased our summer hiring the model is to have a more temporary workforce with respect to the instructors themselves. we run pretty high open vacancies and so we've asked for a little bit more h.r. support to do our part to turn around vacancies in park control a

the convinces of people being on workman's comp their occupy that position so those positions go outstanding filled and deemed inattentive. if we are depleted we have people on long term disability that paralyzes us. we ask that and through the help of peggy sugarman and other in the city that we feel we can make a strong case to fulfill those positions because we don't expect those 20 plus people to return back to the sheriff's department and feel it's unfair we simply treat those positions as filled when they're not. that concludes my presentation i'm happy to answer questions and thank our cfo who did a good job >> colleagues questions or comments open this up for public comment is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thanks for the presentation. supervisor avalos >> yeah. yeah. i know we've got to foil this item. a motion to file the item we'll take that without objection. >> item 6 is the ordinance appropriating approximately one hundred and 16 thousand overtime and to overtime and appropriating one hundred and 16 thousand for the sheriff's department in prob

we have a motion and second workman's compensation >> mr. clerk call item 4. >> i just want to note that the budget and finance comple committee it will appear on the agenda on the next meeting. item 4 hearing to receive an update on the finance departments budget >> welcome mr. ginsburg. >> good afternoon. i want to thank my director katie and tony and jessica the budget analyst for their help and oversight on the budget we're rising up to it katie. this is a general looked at the departments operating budget for 2013-2014. our operating budget is one hundred and $38 million and so it's important to remember that the departments capital budget varies from year to year wherever when the bonds are issued and other one time sources so we see fluctuation in our capital program like the bond caption that was passed by the voters in 2012. here's a look at our two year budget okay or outlook our budget challenge was healthyier in past years at the one $.4 million and that comes from 3 fundamental sources this coming year 2013-2014 our base budget

we've made in making the system safer have brought you down the exception in terms of the claims for workman's comp and dollars we're going to pay out so we've been able to accommodate some of the services being able to bring down some of the costs. so in terms of the fairs, fees and fines as i mentioned the great majority proposal index according the inflation what i'm going to be proposing subject to our feedback is a few delineations from the index. one is that we increase the a fast pace the bart pass beyond indexing and that's to account for the increases in costs absorbed with the new fast pass agreement with bart pr they've upping their fares that's a great deal for the people who get the fast past from barhop to glen park through did mission into downtown for just 12 discolors more than the fast pass. we covered the fast pass is among the lowest past cost in the nation so it's a bargain. the one other another deviation would be a slight increase in the visitor pass the 1, 3 and 7 day passes we've got strong demand and when you look at essentially the return on investment you get with t

we believe in walkable exciting merchant corridors with we want to echo many workman's thoughts and recommendations. we that that having a number above the current 11 above the cap is exciting keep that in mind that number to 20 unite it defined as the retail institution now i, you know, which kind of neighborhoods that are serving the formulate retailers you're letting in or keeping out. the report we think highlights the success of the cu process in preserving neighborhood character and letting in business owners that help the neighborhood. we highlight the grocery store and the pharmacies providing walkable merchant corridors. expansion of the rail use will hurt the cu process that exists we're concerned about that. form of because the cu process has been so successful we think that over all abandons that were suggested i similar attack that process and don't allow our neighborhood character to evolve in the process. the report highlights the vacancies that remain vacant because formula retail rents it for the spaces and formula retail is the only answer to the spaces so we recognize the importa

nicole workman and brent and your staff at safe for the support on public safety education outreach and neighborhood organization. and for assisting with the development of this presentation. and i want to thank the members of the community for your support and hard work. i know this neighborhood is not where you want it to be, but it's much better because of you. i want to thank my community advisory board and i have my chairperson, doug gary from dish and john constan from gas grill. thank you for being accessible to me. i want to thank jack canon from dpw and supervisor jane kim's office and for checking up on my officers when they get hurt. i want to thank joe girtey for your continued support for tenderloin and me. he calls me once in a while and asks me how i'm doing. i want to thank the leadership. mr. pain, it's not the easiest thing to work for and thank you for working on those projects. i want to thank the sarjs -- sergeants for keeping their standards of service and most of all the officers for keeping this community safe. thank you. [ applause ] >> there is food in the back

. >> i think we have to look at separate outn property insurance and workman's compensation insuranceproperty insurance the market will pay. it will be a very ugly situation if insurers were forced to provide unlimited terrorism insurance with regard to large property risk. i think what you would find in the chill on investment, because there is no investment without insurance and insurance levels would come down. as each company evaluating their own exposure and capability. the programat itself, this actually works as intended. this is an ideal public/private ownership arrangement. it is not a bailout. it is actually a backstop. nofederal money spent, taxpayer money spent. all it really means is the federal government would act as the reinsurer before losses in exceeded $1e million. each insurance company would have their own deductible. a deductible equal to 20% of the gross earned premium they have from the year before. this is truly a program that would only attach in the event of a catastrophe. >> even supporters in the senate bill are calling for a greater stake in the industry

it's an yood dreamed up by a fellow named aaron workman at penn state university. good to see you.spired you? where was this idea born? >> well, the idea was born out of my undergraduate thesis work at penn state. i was looking at displaced populations which led me to look at the situation in new orleans. almost the third worldization that occurs due to natural disaster that is strike our communities. >> how does it help with areas like new orleans after hurricane katrina? >> i think the typical response to a natural disaster is a flood of aid from the outside in. this response is kind of creating a grassroots effort. it's flipping and challenging the outside-in approach and trying to create an inside-out approach and give the people the tools and allow it to permeate from the inside out instead of telling them what they need, allow them to develop what they need and how they need it. >> walk us through what this is. this apparatus x. >> so the unit itself -- well, the first prototype i'm building is a refurbished rv, essentially. it's a completely self-sustainable unit with solar

something does need to be solved as far as health care, workman's comp is a big issue.e coach's side, some people i have spoken to privately said if a kid gets a scholarship guaranteed, he might tank it. now he's not going to go as hard because he's not incentivized. >> so it's not good for the sport? >> coaches look at it than student athletes. we would like to have a standardization of what everyone accepts and believes and being proactive about fixing the problem. the problem is flawed and that's why we're here. >> obviously, we're talking about big money sports. we're talking about football, for instance, where there are revenues coming in and that can provide. what about no revenue sports? what happens in the wake of a pro unionization outcome of this to college curling? >> you know, right now we're starting with football and basketball because they are the strongest arguments. it's possible under the labor law, the players in the nonrevenue sports also have protections and the right to unionize. right now there's over $1.2 billion in brand new revenue come manager

student athletes, people don't remember, is a term that was created by the ncaa to avoid things like workman'spie in the sky ideal but it was always meant to defend. >> and we all talk about ken koulter and the word courageous has been used. right now, that falls on the players. ken's out of this thing. he has no responsibility. >> seth: he really is. >> it's these players who now, pat fitzgerald, the coach, has spoken to and tried to give them reasons for saying no to this vote. it's these players. are they going to vote yes to form the first union in college sports? >> seth: that, of course, would be the most incredible outcome, as now, they're given a chance, and obviously this will probably take years before it actually comes to -- >> your guys school, too. >> it is remarkable to me. seth and i went to a school that no one ever talks about athletics under practically, any circumstances. isn't that the school seth meyers went to? isn't that the school stephen colbert went to? isn't that the school julia louis-dreyfus went to? now all of a sudden, isn't that the school where the football tea

convicted of fraud of being involved with this restaurant which has violations for not carrying workman's comp insurance, like all of these things, the connective tissue is that when the accusations come out, grimm or his lawyers say this is a democratic plot. this is people out to get me. i'll be vindicated in the end. and so far, you know, he's been sort of like the teflon congressman. he hasn't, you know, hasn't been indicted for anything. but obviously now that's finally coming to a head. >> and to that point, his lawyer's response today was that he will be vindicated, that this is a plot. that there's no chance he's going to resign. he's going to stay in congress. there seems -- that's legal strategy in part. but he does have a pretty good record of having incredibly salacious allegations made against him in a number of venues and surviving and skating. is that because the allegations have been proven to be spurious? why does he keep getting away? >> well, in all these cases -- in most of the cases, they haven't actually been brought to trial. i mean, there is a lawsuit against them

. >> i saw one workman, david, who was ducking down under the water trying to pull these sandbags out. another man had hold of his hand. >> the worker successfully removes all but one of the bags, but there's one last bag still blocking the drain. david dives into the murky water to grab it. >> nobody sort of realized what had actually happened because everyone had thought, oh, he's just pulling another sandbag up. when he didn't come back up, all hell broke loose. >> the force of the water on top of the bag pushed it through the drain and took him with it. he was above the water, still at that stage, but his legs were wedged into the pipe. >> by removing the bag, david unplugs the drain, and now the pressure of the gushing water pushes so forcefully, it sucks david's legs into the drain. >> i jumped into the water to try and help remove him from the drain. his legs were wedged into the pipe. >> firemen, the roadworkers, they all just dived in and just trying to pull him up. >> fighting the incredible force of water, the workers are able to get his head up. he's gasping for air, and t

they had to drill a hole through a beam, through a wall stud, and they were told to hurry up, the workman, come in, you're inconveniencing the president, hurry up. ripped down what they had to, hacked through, and then cover it up. that's what constituted the damage in the beams i referenced earlier. the other thing is the additions were heavy. they were cast iron. in a house that would be built today, bringing in a lot of steel pipes would not necessarily be a problem, but it was a problem in the white house, and i want to explain why. the white house had a very unusual system -- well, not for the time, but distinct system for drilling the weight load. the outer walls of the house, which i have here, looking down at the house here, they are in black. those were four feet thick. they were stone. they -- the foundations went five feet below the ground, and they capped off with pudding. think of decent anchoring for the time. the big problem was that the interior walls, which are red here, those were walls of brick, and they basically had no foundation at all. you don't need an engineering

they had to drill a hole through a beam, through a wall stud, and they were told to hurry up, the workman, come in, you're inconveniencing the president, hurry up. ripped down what they had to, hacked through, and then cover it up. that's what constituted the damage in the beams i referenced earlier. the other thing is the additions were heavy. they were cast iron. in a house that would be built today, bringing in a lot of steel pipes would not necessarily be a problem, but it was a problem in the white house, and i want to explain why. the white house had a very unusual system -- well, not for the time, but distinct system for drilling the weight load. the outer walls of the house, which i have here, looking down at the house here, they are in black. those were four feet thick. they were stone. they -- the foundations went five feet below the ground, and they capped off with pudding. think of decent anchoring for the time. the big problem was that the interior walls, which are red here, those were walls of brick, and they basically had no foundation at all. you don't need an engineering

conclusions as those key guardians of the state have become corrupt and lax and therefore didn't stop and workman enough to prevent a collapse of the soviet union. all of these factors have an emphasis on anticorruption. >> we started with one of the university of michigan stories. i will close with one. there is a professor of ethics, a colleague, a fitness east coast university who is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of his time that had extra bold personal life. the guy was a famous lothario. at one point the faculty member confronted him in the lounge and said how even with the greatest moral and ethical leaders of all time and made such a moral life, he was so morally unaware that he actually thought there was a question. so he answered it. [laughter] he answered it, but his answer offers my closing, which he said look, it is like this. in a debate highway sign on the road boston near wellesley versus 20 miles to boston. i am like that sign. i provide reliable direction to others. i don't actually make the journey myself. i close with that story because a lot of times we discussed wha

a health food store he owned on the upper east side in which he had been charged with not paying workman's compensation and not paying his employees fairly and apparently according to "the times" he allegedly lied under oath in a federal lawsuit. which is kind of remarkable just given that grimm has had a very colorful history both as an fbi agent in the private sector and as a congress member. so i don't think this is the thing that people thought would be the biggest challenge to his tenure. >> yeah, absolutely. okay, david, let's move on to the second point. senator rand paul's comments in which he said the republican party is going to have to adapt, evolve or die. here's more of that. >> that means with tattoos and without tattoos. with earrings and without earrings. black, white, brown. you go to a republican event and it's all white people. not because we're excluding anybody but we haven't done a good enough job encouraging people to come into our party. >> david, how do republicans broaden their base? is it easier said than done? >> it has been for republicans. they've been wrestli