a particular russian phenomenon known as is this something that you see in other cities as well. you know i'm not sure yeah i guess i should say that the city. center here but it's quite lovely and it's really it's not what it was when i was here when the transition was going on it's no it it's a european city it feels a little if you use incredibly russian but just still a. so to me as an external observer in the person who goes to lots of cities. it's great to come back and the people are very warm and it's very. it's just the delightful experience that he has speaking on the personnel and i guess my question is more professional and. more off your profit professional expertise i think they have they the idea that the most catherine shows have is that if you crave the right kind of environment that they'll how to bring. more people into the city not only tourist but also more business as it will also how keep the most agitated within the city do you think that kind of rationale is going to work especially given the. kind of times that male even so what i think. this is a fascina

you today. the us conference of mayors, good authority that bristol and many cities around the world will back you as america as you take a stand on issues that matter from migration to climate change, recognize your leadership from these areas. and that you recognize us cities as the source of global political -- us cities on national leaders, by the virtue of the nation of which you are apart your international leaders and you set a national standard with you know it or not. the whole world is watching what you do. we recognize you are not just nation shapers but global shapers. [applause] >> needs challenges of organizing cities, take a lead in them, challenging the existing networks to get better organized, get more organized. on that front i would like to welcome any and all of you to bristol, to the global parliament of mayors. let's work to target the international bodies for whom we want more city representation. thank -- i believe this moment has found us as city leaders. i didn't come into office with an international agenda. i didn't come in aiming to be standing on this stage at the us co

a particular russian phenomenon known as is this something that you see in other cities as well. you know i'm not sure i guess i should say the city. center here but it's quite lovely and it's really it's not what it was when i was here when the transition was going on it's no it it's a european city it feels a little if you use incredibly russian but it just it's delightful. so to me as an external observer in the person who goes to lots of cities. it's great to come back and the people are very warm and it's very it's just the delightful experience that he was speaking on the first of all and i guess my question is more professional in . a least more off your profit professional expertise i think the idea that the most authoritative have is that if you crave the right kind of environment that will how to bring. more people into the city not only tourist but also. businesses that don't know also how keep the most agitated within the city do you think that kind of rationale is going to work especially given the. kind of times that male even so what i think. this is. a fascinating

you know how to bring. more people into the city not only tourist but also on business as it will also how keep the most advocated within the city do you think that kind of rationale is going to work especially given the. kind of times that male even so what i think. this is. a fascinating historical moment and it reminds me of. new york when there was a man named robert moses who they say that he's the only in the twentieth century who you can see from the moon see his creations on earth and he really carved up new york city and he built a lot of it he built lincoln center he did a lot with the central park but he also destroyed a lot and he destroyed and he cut through neighborhoods particularly poor neighborhoods and avoided the rich neighborhoods and so his movement restructuring a city. you know for better or worse must goes in a point where it needs to restructure and so how do you do those things when you have all the millions and millions of people who have different ideas you have to listen to them and i think. robert moses was a woman named jane jacobson very much getting community participation but tha

our ask is that you recognize u.s. cities as the source of global political hope that you are at this time, that you recognize that u.s. cities are not only national leaders come but by the very virtue of the nation of which you are part, you are international leaders and you set an international standard, whether you know it or not. the whole world is watching what you do. we recognize that you are not just nation shapers. you are global shapers. [applause] >> in these challenges of organizing the world cities, i ask you to take a lead in that, in challenging the existing networks to get better organized and to work with us on that. on that front, i would like to welcome any and all of you to bristol at this year's global parliament of mayors. let's work together to target the international bodies from whom we want to have formal city representation. in conclusion, i would like to say that i believe this moment has found us as city leaders. ago i was elected two years , i did not come into office with an international agenda, a

whether it's through the community benefits from the central soma plan or other avenues is for you as city officials to decide. i would just close in saying that mayor lee fully supported the future rehabilitation of the city's most valuable, underutilized, city-owned building and i hope the committee will, too. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm fernando marte. we would like to associate ourselves with the we are soma coalition, which includes several of our member organizations. i would like to speak about the housing sustainability district that is the new-fangled thing that will be incorporated to central soma. one of the things -- the maintaining that h.s.d. does is make the projects moving forward ministerial approval within 120 days. if there is no approval by the planning department within four months, the project moves forward. we hear over and over again how difficult it is for developers, market rate and affordable, and how it can take two years to get approval. it's a great boon for developers moving forward. one of the things gratifying to see, is that in return th

you crave the right kind of environment that will how to bring. more people into the city not only tourist but also more business as it will also how keep the most agitated within the city do you think that kind of rationale is going to work especially given the. kind of times that male even so what i think. this is a fascinating historical moment and it reminds me of. new york when there was a man named robert moses who they say that he's the only man in the twentieth century who you can see from the moon see his creations on earth and he really carved up new york city and he built a lot of it he built lincoln center he did a lot with the central park but he also destroyed a lot and he destroyed and he cut through neighborhoods particularly poor neighborhoods and avoided the rich neighborhoods and so his movement restructuring a city. you know for better or worse must goes in a point where it needs to restructure and so how do you do those things when you have all the millions and millions of people who have different ideas you have to listen to them and i think the. robert moses was a woman named jane jacobson very much getting community participation

as a team you have to try to be you know because they did strengthen their roster with mario as at you know signing as well you know i think man city is a team to beat right now i mean they're all following pat like the don't like the pied piper you know if they're doing that quickly i i think the team to beat but i wouldn't count a live report chelsea there are men you if if it doesn't have a disaster. poorly they laid back brilliantly they will make ninety points a bed they will come up short i'm sure yeah i think it will do it easily they have to come on they have to go through surprise are going again so you know your compatriot your club over here has. fixed the seven percent of the players in the premier league a foreign is less than one third of the players in spain are from abroad it's time to talk about. i. i. it is definitely not the most exciting leak when it comes to the champions it's usually. but why do we like. well the ways banished football is played is very nice you know if there tiki taka has inspired teams all over the world true with the way they played so there is that yes ok barsaat and real madrid for sure b

you as a u.s. conference of mayors and author and i believe i have it on good authority that bristol in many cities around the world will take you to american mayors as you take a stand on issues that matter from medication. we recognize your leadership in this area. at last. and the ask is that you recognize. but that you recognize that the u.s. cities are not only national leaders but by the very virtue of the nation which you are a part. you are international leaders and you set an international standard whether you know it or not. the whole world is watching what you do. and we recognize that you are not just nation shapers you are global shapers. so in the challenges of organizing the world cities i ask you to take the lead and not in challenging the existing network to get better organized. to get more organized on that. and on that front i would like to say i would like to welcome any and all of you to bristle to advance this work at this year's level parliament. let's work together to target the international bodies from him we want to have four more city representations. in conclusion i wo

so whether it is through the community benefits package, or other avenues, it is for you as city officials to decide the mint's future. i asked the commission to do all it can to express support of the revisitation of the city's most valuable city-owned historic building. also, there are other specific questions about numbers and funding. we hear a lot of things where it is always involving -- it is hard to know what is wet but we have heard at one point, that there were 70 million unprogrammed dollars as part of this plan. i don't know if that is still the case, but i would urge you to investigate and request everything you can for the mint. >> president wolfram: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i don't have prepared testimony. i did want to thank president wolfram and commissioner johnck for testifying at the hearing last monday, and for commissioner george commissioner johns for exhibiting comment as well. i do not need to remind you that the old mint has been one of the most vexing and retractable preservation challenges this city has ever encountered, in addition to being

that point because you had once specifically about st petersburg to rile a lot of people you describe the city as a place untouched by the myth of multiculturalism and deranged diversity and i'm sure you seen all those dozens of replies of people pointing out to you. most multicultural city in. the world that of course one hundred sixty nationalities are built by. the french and the buildings and the dutch name of what i mean we also have a very vibrant muslim community who petition this are for a small. yet. no i heard it all i see that i get what people are saying i get them but when you come to some petersburg as an outsider and i'm an outsider it's russian people if you speak to people in the street or with help but i speak to people in the street they identify as russian first you go to the u.k. you won't find any of that russian mean then after the. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that you get so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing

you find your way out. blue is the color of fence and blue as the sea and this city is a sea of stories all you have to do is find them blue is the color of fence the green is the color of the face think well upon which color you will follow if you follow the blue for too long the blue mane leave you a strange. land. through. their. lives sure are narrow. down their friends. they are the color of the way as in he is summoning to contemplation and to prayer good hand to him this holy place a story awaits you an account remains unsettled here and has remained so for more than six hundred years for the medrash. in which you have now sent forth which serves to this day as a college and as a mosque the only mosque in all morocco which an infidel may enter the madrassa has not yet been paid for to this day. beauty cannot be measured in coin to clear enough the sultan who had been out who was known for his fatality and thrift when the builders and craftsman presented their blood to him he tore it up and scattered the scraps in the river the gives the city its name. now cornish in. me along came when everything in.

know, the city services auditor was established by city charter. as younow we have pendic f which lays out certain functions for city services to complete. we receive a budget set aside of 2/10 of 1% for the city's budget. we also receive g.o. bond proceeds amounting to approximately 2 million, and we have a total of 68 f.t.e.'s in the total organization. so this slide shows the large department that covers our general bond. functionally, c.s.a. has two units. so we have audit, and we have city performance to ensure that we fulfill the charter mandate for appendix f. as it relates to our work plan process, it's actually driven by your charter and administrative code. we also do risk analysis, and we receive information or requests from our executive leadership as well as our department, and we have our bond and capital programs, as well, that dictate our work plan. >> tanya ran through that really quickly. you're familiar with our planning process and mandates, but ask us questions at any time. these lists our charter requirement, which you are familiar w

as you probably know, the city, after 2017, elected an african-american woman who ran as an independent, with no previous political experience, but she won handily, which is unusual in charlottesville, a city of democrats. she was elected, and the city council which chooses its mayor selected her for the job. i think in part because our council meetings had become so crazy, there was so much fighting going on, catcalls from the audience, that i think there was a feeling that nikuyah walker, the candidate, might be able to control the passions of the crowd. in fact, even she has had difficulty. but i would say there's a lot more discussion now at city council about issues of race, issues of great interest to the african-american community in particular, affordable housing and police conduct. host: you touched on this briefly, but the status of the statue of robert e. lee. you said it was tied up in litigation. where does that stand? guest: that's right. of course, there are many civil war buffs, people who believe the statue is history and should not come down, so when the city voted to

city. ms. nixon: in is been controlled by the governor since 1965. governor cuomo: could you stop interrupting? as well as you do. the funding over the past 30 years for the subway system has come from new york city for the

>> i know you haven't had a chance to read this, but just in your experience and the time you've been working with city build and i know you were involved with local hire. do you see this as a way to strengthen, as a pathway to enhance and support the work you're doing at city build, potentially? >> i do. i mentioned in a project labor agreement, you have all of the partners together at the table. i do absolutely want to be cognizant of the concerns of the l.b.e. contractors. again, these are a lot of contractors who are out there who have testified and started with the tools and became company owners, and they benefit from the l.b.e. program that you said is successful and being replicated around the country, most recently san jose. i think a project labor policy that puts everyone together at the same table and addresses these policies, is going to continue to allow us to expand city build like we're going with glen eagle, doing training inside the jail, all these things mean more graduates come out, there are more contractors working with our trainees. all these programs and things, we want to make sure they're sustained under whatever policy we take, but we're ready t

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you knew as a government why didn't you prevent that why didn't you go and tackle that. so as you mentioned the afghan government is also battling right now a growing taliban threat in the city of guys need just outside of kabul at least four hundred people including around one hundred civilians have been killed since the assault began on friday charlotte dallas has more on that. after six days of a taliban siege on the afghan city of gosney residents emerge from their homes they bring brooms and shovels and anger says part of the richer the government has not paid attention to the people here and as you can see most of the markets have burned down and the city. population of two hundred seventy thousand people found themselves in the middle of the war with the taliban on friday they survived by sheltering in their homes rationing food and water without power or communications in the aftermath we're learning more about the human cost hundreds of people were killed taliban fighters soldiers police and civilians residents say some died in government strikes too dangerous to move bodies most of the streets for days the red cross moved some to a hospital inside space and resourc

you. i will never forget when i just started at city hall as a legislative aide for supervisor comepose and you were at d.c.h. at the time and i came to meet with you to learn about your work and the department and you were so welcoming, and so kind, and so wonderful to me, and it struck me at the time and it stayed with me ever since. that's just who you are. and i think that you have been a, a mentor and someone so many of us have looked up to as an example of what it means to be an incredible leader in the community and public servant who lasts a long haul. you've been here in the city fighting your butt off for your entire life, and the city is so much better off for it. and i can't thank you enough for everything you have given. we are going to miss you a lot, and i hope you have an amazing retirement and have a blast. >> thank you. >> president cohen: supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much, director cronenberg, anne for all of your service. you invited all of us actually to go to the emergency dispatch center and there i truly got to see what an incredible operation

down protesters in bucharest and about sixty thousand in other major cities as you said i mean to me so i right now this is the second largest city in. the evolution began so people took to the streets yesterday specially after what happened yesterday because of also these demonstrations. there have been no casualties so far today but they were fond of the recent book or read as tens of thousands of acts that had gathered back home for a protest against social democratic governments riot police on the edge guys and water cannons at the protest. innocent people lots of innocent people at the moment there are still six. with. injuries but in total about four hundred people accuse injuries and. one of our correspondents called it the building the rumanians. has been beaten up by the police so obviously no reason. well that's obviously really quite unfortunate to hear but looking at the numbers why these anti-government protests so important. they're very important because these people are fighting corruption and they are angry and demand that the government resign after continue his atte

have no sympathy for them they chose this as their job ted wheeler is the mayor of portland oregon which is one of the many cities that are being described as what you call sanctuary city. these that are not cooperating with federal immigration officials they're basically defying the federal government not cooperating with that now u.s. attorney general just sessions has ordered the sanctuary cities all across the united states to start complying with the federal immigration officials but they're refusing to do so some people are saying that like these immigration policies are dividing the country tearing the country up trump is dividing america what do you say to those people i'm saying trump is doing what's necessary to make this a country under obama we didn't have a border we had a welcome mat. yet people protesting do want their opinions heard they do want action taken they do want. the families worse of unseparated to be reunited these illegal aliens come here and get everything for free how my tax dollars ok how do you think about that. political blogger anthony brian logan told us refusal to protect ice agents from harassment could be seen a

up on that point because you had want specifically about seemed to rile a lot of people you describe the city as a place untouched by the myth of multiculturalism and deranged diversity and i'm sure you've seen all those dozens of replies of people pointing out to you. most multicultural city in. and of course one hundred sixty nationalities are built by. the friends. in the buildings of the dutch name of what i mean we also have a very vibrant muslim community who petitioned this our first mosque i was the you know i heard it all i see that i get what people are saying i get them but when you come to some petersburg as an outsider and i'm an outsider it steals russian people if you speak to people in the street or with help but i speak to people in the street they identify as russian first you go to the u.k. you won't find any of that russian mean an athlete. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given the few who have it so much maybe multiculturalism is not such

you go. i find any of that russian mean then ethnic affiliation or it may mean national affiliation so most of the different nationalities whom we all love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given the few who get so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy your definition of multiculturalism at all and just because you have one most with five thousand people able to fit into it that does not in any way replicate the europe that are you know i've just come from belgium mozambique in fact the jihadi capital of europe where they have twenty two mosques in a six kilometer square do you have most of kilometers here kilometer yeah six coloma to square the area twenty two mobs so it's very different for me where i live in terms of multiculturalism which is much more about monaco choose to live in ghettos and it's a very different definition to the one that you might understand i actually want to discuss that but before we do that many of the three of you have posted have these hash tag putin brock's to be yes which i find very ironic because here in russia you wouldn't be allowed by law to say or publish many th

i want to say thank you to our city administrator for leading this effort as well as others. there's been tough discussions, but you continue to come to the table, and everyone is continuing to have the discussions to get us to a better place is so critical. i want this to be a win-win for all employees in the city. i want, at the end of the day, for us to come out of this project labor agreement with an 11-0 vote at the board of supervisors. that is the ultimate goal, and i am so looking forward to hopefully being able to sign this as mayor of the city and county of san francisco. so thank you all so much for being here and being at the table. i look forward to the robust discussion today. >> okay. with that, madam city administrator, the floor is yours. >> good afternoon, supervisors, naomi kelly. >> good morning. >> that's correct. good morning. for another 10 minutes. naomi kelly, city administrator. i thought i would just quickly go through and say that i am, too, cautiously optimistic that we'll get to a project labor agreement. both the department of public works and re