today we have two workshops. we have a morning session, then there be a break and then an afternoon session. i printed some things out of large size sheets. the fall agenda -- the full agenda and some of the labs that are here that seem so big did not look that big when we printed them out on half size, so i wanted you to have the benefit of the larger size print. so, just to review from the agenda, workshop runs from 10:00 until noon. we will be walking through the rest of the projects we did not get to on april 27, talking through some of the questions that have come up at previous meetings and responding to them, then moving on to level of service discussions. there will be words on technology from our progress engineering group. we will also talk about the rate of impact. workshop #7 will start in the afternoon at 1:30, where we will talk about flooding, community benefits, climate change, sustainability. at the end of the day there is a potential commission action to endorse the goals and levels of service a

so the workshop will be having discussions about that. there will be a break-out session amongst the lawyers, to have a discussion about legal strategies that were used to get the ballot name changed and some of the things that were key in actually making sure that the proposition ended up failing or that the voters had well education about what the proposition was really about. so that is what the focus of the workshop is on is on that type of item, you know. we have people coming from all over northern california. i think even a couple of people from southern california are coming up to attend this event and be part of these workshops and have a discussion. and once that is done, there will actually be a celebration afterwards that people are also welcome to come to as well. this will be taking place at the merchants exchange building here in san francisco. the workshops start at 1:00, go till about 5:00. the party starts about 5:30. so we will be doing that. as of this morning we had 66 people signed up for the workshop, and we actuall

that's the way the workshop is going to go. i will pass it along to our panelists to introduce themselves and talk about their organizations. thank you, again, for coming. [applause] >> hello i'm charl davis program direct for the mo magic which is western addition fillmore of adolescent growth in our communities. i'm a resident of the western addition and been doing work in the community before this was organized. mo magic is part of the bay view mag i believing in the public defentders office it started in the bay view in 2004. last year supervisor mirkarimi liked the work that was doing done with be magic and wanted it expanded to the western edition. as of november of last year the program was organized. it seeks to bring community based organizations. cities and residents to talk about how to best serve the community and how we can work all together. we meet every other week in the western addition to discuss that. even though it's focused on the western addition we try to work with everyone in district 5. in serving the y

a public workshop. thank you. >> item 9c, informational presentation on the department of the city planning's nebraska embarcadero study -- nebraska -- northeast embarcadero study. commissioner fong: we're going to take a two-minute break and let the clout -- crowd clear the room. if you want to have conversations, kind of move them away from the front door here. two minutes. commissioner fong: ok, seeing that our next item has a lot of public comment, we will go ahead and get started. would you please read the next item? >> he wants you to read the item. >> i'm sorry. informational presentation on the department of city planning's northeast embarcadero study. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm with the planning and development of -- division. i wanted to start by giving some introductory remarks before introducing planning department staff, for them to provide their presentation to you. last week, the planning commission held a special public hearing on this study, and it really is quite -- hopefull

we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expected it would? . >> what's interesting is if you work on a play this long, normally there are times that it becomes redundant and you get a little bored with the piece. it's only natural. it's pushing 4 years now. this one was interesting in that it never got boring or ever felt redundant and each thing that we did over these almost 4 years, whether it was going off to sundance or to writer's retreat they have in sheritan, wyoming -- is that where you went? . >> that was in utah and la as well, down there at the institute. >> they have another writer's retreat in sheritan, wyoming, so i spent time out there and we workshoped this in san francisco, we have done readings at the asia society in new york. each time we did a workshop, each time we did a reading, it moved the piece forward. i think in large part it has to do with working with cary pearloff, the director, but

the idea was born at a workshop we were doing with youth who expressed feelings of disempowerment. no one was listening to them. and although his heart is still in his music, roz understands the importance of listening to the voices of young people and of being a man tore and that's often the most difficult role anyone can undertake. i work in juvenile justice and roz and i often talk about how fearful adults are of young people and how wary how adults are interacting with youth who aren't their own. we know that working with youth is among the hardest and most rewarding things you can do. roz has traveled to europe and japan with his band and he has been sent all over, even to kenya to represent his community as an organizer and as an artist. he always come home to continue working with the youth on a weekly basis here in the bay area and on reservations. he just returned this week from working on the ute reservation in colorado with youth instructing them how to write lyrics and create music. that is one of his other loves. so ultimately when i lock at him, i see someone who give

the focus of this workshop not the workshop the summit today is tow repeatedly hit us over the head with hurricane katrina when the compliment to that which is an earthquake the stronger neighborhoods will survive and the ones that are capable will dealing with a variety of issues and used to talking to one another a buddy system of a variety of levels. because i heard alarming things about the new orleans neighborhoods that in neighborhoods in new orleans in which there was not the history of conversations or history of shared projects and activism. the decision about the future of the neighborhoods whether they would exist or not is being made by the federal government and many of the neighborhoods will be park lands. that's the opposite extreme of what you want to have happen in san francisco. san francisco is about neighborhoods but some neighborhoods are better than another. community challenge grants are a fun way to stimulate these conversations. i want to point out a few great people in the room that you don't already know. give you examples of further examples of what things are

we have no way of contacting you once this workshop is over unless you sign in. i particularly as coalition for san francisco neighborhoods would like to have especially those who said they want to start new organizations or revitalize an organization to get in contact with me or give me your information personally so i can help you with that. as to treasure island i'm going to have to pass on that one to somebody else but i could help you with your organization. not as a specific geographical. >> i'd like to address your question. may be we need to talk off line but it's engaging the residents everything starts as a seed. any idea even with our neighborhood watch programs on a block by block level what we are doing is getting 2 or 3 residents together they form critical mass and they meet and it's a gathering a seed process you have to water it. if there are 3 or 4 of you interested in creating a neighborhood association. put up a flyer at the coffee shop and may be you will get more joining you. it will flower if you are consistent with your meetings. you need

so we held a workshop and had all of the agencies that would aid us in recovery there. we had even we provided residents with text messaging assistance for elderly who never texted before. one of the things we realized after the storm we could not use our cell phones even when we were evacuated. the cell phones were down. one thing you could do was text. it was interesting. you can send a text message. we are trying to get our residents give them the knowledge to do that should we need to evacuate again. and this is just an example of a flyer for our expo and you have to tailor it to the diversity of your community. making sure what other dialects or languages that are present in your neighborhood that you address that. and you make sure that you are inclusive to everyone. just an example of our agenda for our expo. and the communications, this is a piece that we have come up with post katrina and that is a 1-800 evacuation check in number that our residents can call into in the event that we must evacuate. residents can call and let the improvement association know whe

i hope that through this workshop you will get the answers you have in terms of how to take that next step in terms of organizing your own neighborhoodses and learn from those who come before you to forge a way to improving the city which is something we all hold very dear. i wanted to say in terms of the to m format we are flexible. there is a general introduction as to who we are and who we serve and our experiences and the tools and strategies we identified to be successful. then we will open it up for you all to decide where you want it to go. we have question cards in the back i hope all of you grabbed. through the question cards we can answer the questions you have. we don't know if come of you want to start a neighborhood watch group and want to know the first step in doing that. some of you may be have been doing that already and have questions.

evaluate this workshop it helps with the others we might have. the message before we open it up to you is that i will say this, you can start with onor 2 people. power is right here. these are our resources. they are our partners. we are a team. i consider them my friends and a team. but it's the community thal drive everything you do in your community. all the good and positive will be driven by you. we will open it up. are there questions? >> wow! we were good this time. >> okay. >> [inaudible] >> uh-huh. >> well, what we do and actually m oh , magic cheryl davis is on the community building panel. we work with them alot. mo magic came out of bay view. what she does and what we all do is volunteer and go to the meetings, is they actually find all of the different support and community based organizations from youth on up, families. they connect it to the community. they have a special events the black and white ball was put on by the mo magic. we did a call out and said come and volunteer at the black and white ball. even though it's not no in

this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd we created a few models for safety and some are complex and a lot of information. we are going to give you just a little bit of this today. we will talk about how to connect with the different city agencies, your supervisors, your captain at our station. the city attorney's office and beat officers or street officers. one of the things that i would like toit introduce the panel. captain from northern station. regina from the legislative aid of ross mirkarimi one of our supervisors. from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight or modo is to build a safe and caring neighborhood and foster that. we believe to build a safe neighborhood you have to build a caring neighborhood. it goes hand and hand. o

able to realize i mean well one of those five teams was growing a workshop the russian group which tookpart in the games first of all for a second time that wasn't at that song was interesting to watch the spectators while they are watching your movie i wonder what they feel within that period of time and what they're thinking about your film and i think we're doing great here. some more pictures speaking for themselves here before we start looking forward to seeing what this extreme submission is to figure out next year. party. and in the tour de france spain talking rodriguez our team gets. in a thrilling stage twelve edging out to time champ and i'll bet a. in a two man sprint sent the rules out some nazi made that is either an outpour of came third and the shaft meanwhile retains the yellow jersey although the forty one second gap between him and course it all has been reduced to just say she won seconds with eight stages still to go in the tour de france. that's it for the moment but you can always get more news on our web site which is r t v dot com and coming up next is the why t

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thirty three degree celsius in the workshop but our employers don't care if you try to stand up for your rights they'll point you to the door if you don't like it you're free to leave it's very hard to find a job here and therefore put up with working in slave like conditions estonia has one of europe's worst pay gaps between men and women the studies say women get paid seventeen percent less than men on average but in a stone year it's as much as thirty percent people think that we don't have the problem. there were no problem and. and the problem that people don't have their gender lenses how to say to see when there is an equality going on. it goes much further than wages so-called segregation in the economy means women often remain in lower paid jobs like health care and education while men dominate the more lucrative private sector experts say that's not just unfair it's bad for business if for example a concrete to a woman feels that she cannot do the job or cannot take up the career that she would lie again and she she has a talent for that and of course this is the same human res

behind me actually climb up on to them in the main candidate itself they have workshops and they have people not thanks on hand to those people in giving lectures as we're about three hours out of the city but it's a two day event so still plenty of time for people wishing to get a bit of sunshine and have the feel of and coach it's coming down. well i think i look at it by you watching out up next the nato military committee chairman says their lives views moscow as a strong strategic partner not a threat or an enemy watch our interview with. his recent visit to moscow in just a few moments. joining me today. who is the chairman of the nato military committee and as you may know nato was established as an alliance between countries to defend against outside threats the admiral's with me today to talk about the possibilities of a future between russia and nato as well and the direction nato is taking so thank you for joining us admiral good pleasure really a pleasure the first question let's get right down to it anders fogh rasmussen has called on russia to join the new anti-ballistic

at sundance, in every rehearsal process, i like being part of a very generous workshop. if you were in there you would say, wow, it's pretty free-wheeling. for example, you have 9 characters, 9 story lines that all are trying to be pieced together so they all are introduced, they all intertwine and at the end they are all resolved in some form or fashion. it's a delicate architecture. as we were in rehearsal process, i really rely on actors to kind of say at some point you have tweaked something here, but my character on this part of act 2 no longer is in the right place. so we have to pay attention to that. so in the rehearsal process, it's very democratic up to a point. i talked to cary recently, said i think it got to a point there's so much stuff that i have to keep in my point i need to sort of cull it down a little bit and make it more specific because the point is, everything is in my head and if i'm throwing stuff out and putting stuff in, whatever comes out or goes in has to stay part of this architectural plan that i have in my head so that it always stays stru

we see the principal balance. >> reporter: dozens of san jose city workers set in on a workshop today to see if they could save their homes. leslie martin isn't sure. >> i put 80,000 down on my condo. >> reporter: stories like martin's the president is hoping to prevent by signing the laws. they hope it brings predatory lenders out of the shadows. >>> it would have been better if it happened four years ago but better to have it now than to never have it. >> reporter: only a handful of republicans support the bill. most think it is a bad idea. >> when you cult through the talking points of what the regulation will do the practical real-world effect of this bill in the near term will be job loss. >> reporter: but at sure pass financial solutions -- >> that's one of the things that is going to be on the consumer's favor. >> reporter: maria was studying the bill's impact after counseling clients who are in financial ruin. >> there's going to be more relief for them. make sure that the terms are clear. they are going to make sure that lenders are actually offering loans that the consumers

. >> about 80 young people took part in today's heart healthy workshop. it was hard to tell if they came for the message or the chance to meet the panda in person. along with getting to know pablo sandoval, the kids took part in workshops. >>> we will have much more on the exercise designed to keep the bay area safe from a terrorist attack. those stories and more coming up next on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. >>> the police chief says the city has gotten safer, find out why some residents are skeptical. that story is coming up. >>> san francisco's police chief says crime fighting efforts are paying off. but not everyone believes him. >> also two women are diagnosed with west nile virus. you might be surprised to find out how. >>> good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. things are getting safer in san francisco. things are much safer and today he reported back on the latest statistics showing a drop in violent crimes. david stevenson is live in san francisco with more. >> reporter: critics say there should be more to be done to make san

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though are ovpg 3% fare reduction and the riders went out and conducted community workshops.they put a survey online and asking the riders, do you want this. they say 75% of the people said no, we don't want it. they said bart should clean the trains and seats or have an emergency fund in case something comes up. bart members have voted 6-3 to implement this. one of those that voted yes before is thinking about switching over to no. that would be jill keller of brentwood. he said he would probably switch his vote which would lead not enough votes to pass it. the question here was improperly phrased. twa biased and in fact did not truly represent the sentiment of bart riders. >>> out here, seven cars burned. take a look at the main one where it started. cars are being towed away. what happened shortly after midnight a parking attendant first spotted flames, flagged down a police officer at this long term lot. with all these cars parked so closely the damage could have spread further. the firefighters stationed at the airport put it out quickly. fire begin in one car. flames sp

. >> the bart board of directors has spent the last month to conduct 16 workshops. they have put a survey online and finding out, that bart riders aren't interested in a temporary 3% fare decrease. 60% of the people at the workshop and 90% of the people responding to that online survey say, no thanks. they say bart should take the $2.3 million of its $4.5 million surplus to clean the carpets on bart trains, clean up the seats or put in a rainy day fund. emergencies may come up. it's nice to have money when it happens. bart board members voted to implement the 3% fare reduction but the public comment period and the public is not interested in a temporary, small fare decrease. it needs six to pass. one board member, i voted for it before, i'm not going to vote for it this time but others that say the survey system was flawed. we're going to hear more about that in half an hour. >>> bart directors are also expected to consider a plan to get the controversial oakland airport connector back on track. >> they are urging the board not to build a people mover linking colise

they will do a workshop -- workup on their health. they need a health care assessment, and social work assessment, they have three to six months in which they work within 24/72 upgrade their behavior is and abilities rather than wait for them to commit a crime and then send them to prison, right? we call these residential treatment centers. the place has 2000 beds. they can treat as many as 8000 people a year. in california, the reason they have so many heroin addicts on the street because you are a heroin addict, you cannot get drug treatment. the only of us who can get it are people with health insurance. anyone will tell you on the street we need residential drug treatment. take some of these dam presence, take down the gun towers, turned into a residential drug treatment centers -- some of these damned prisons. >> what are your suggestions as to the reform? one area we have not really talked about much is the impact of technology. where is that going now, and how do we need to expend that? how do we deal with the information that

president we can now return to the end of the first workshop. >> good afternoon commissioners. we are going to now start on our journey through the levels of service and goals worksheet. the idea is that we will be having discussion and dialogue about each and trying to get a check mark by each of them as we proceed through the rest of the presentation. so starting off with providing a resilient and flexible system that can respond to catastrophic events. the wording of the first level of service is full compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements applicable to the treatment and disposal of sewage and storm water. that is what we would do to achieve that is to construct facilities to maintain functions for regulatory compliance, reliability in wet or dry weather. the projects that are intended to address that. the next one under the same goal is critical functions are built with 100% redundant infrastructure. there are two strategies. construct facilities to maintain 100% dry weather treatment redundancy and that would include biosolids, treatment plant improvemen

i believe there were five different workshops or the public had opportunity, maybe four with the port as well. there have been many opportunities. i know most of all of you by first name from public comment or sitting at a round table in this room hearing about a particular project within the scope of this study. i did have the benefit of going online and watching last thursday's planning commission. i heard all the comments there. i heard the recap of what they are looking at doing. some of the comments were thepearl about pearls in san francisco. if you look at the work that is being done at valencia's street, fisherman's wharf, all public plan similar to what was presented to us today. the port is doing work on the blue-green way as well. i think this is a key spot for san francisco visitors as well as residents to have an opportunity to explore this area further. a bit of a side note -- i had a bicycle stolen in front of this site. i had a friend's get broken into in front of this site. there was a stabbing at broadway and embarcadero a couple of nights ago. while there is no dire

kind of characteristics amber rich hopes to instill in both boats and people at ripley's waterside workshop. >> there's a lot of teamwork and patience, ton of patience, being confident in yourself that you can do something like this. >> it helps them set a course in life. >> we work with a lot of foster kids, might be in trouble or on probation that really need hand skills. >> reporter: some boats are scratched, some tuned. >> they can build anything on their own. >> i guess next time we won't cut it before we drill the hole through. >> there's a lot to boat building, which i think is what makes it an incredible tool for personal growth because there's a lot to it. >> it's not just boats that get loving care here. students are learning skills in woodworking, math, and project management and hopefully building confidence. >> they probably want to know why, but it would be mostly about this or -- i actually brag about the stuff i accomplish in a day. >> the 4-year-old waterside workshop teaches bike repair with donated bike parts. and a new cafe gives students lessons in customer service. >>

i have asked humphrey to come up to talk about the technology sector and that fit best with the workshop. this would give to the question of the new technology that we are looking at. he will spend a couple of moments going through this with you. >> good morning, commissioners. this is a brief overview of the innovative technologies we have considered in the recommendation. typically agencies look at innovative technologies but when there is a regulatory driver probabl. also when we need to repay -- replace our aging facilities. in addition to these drivers, there are other reasons to have innovative technologies. this table summarizes the potential benefits that these technologies can give us. they are more or less in line with the bottom line criteria position to to giving us better treatment quality for reliable operation. reducing the capital in treatment costs, reducing the chemicals, changing some of the pollutant discharge. it can also provide social or community benefits, like reducing the footprint of the facility or going to a treatment process that would generate less odor. i