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this is san francisco's city hall. you are part of the fabric of this extraordinary community, the great city and county of san francisco. i just want to thank each and everyone of you for making this city what it is today, such a special place, and a beacon, i think, of hope and light for so many others. in that spirit, in that state, and with that let, let me recognize formally today -- in perpetuity, i hope that i will not be the last major to be setting forth these proclamations for decades and decades to come, but mike, why don't you come up on behalf of the community just to recognize today in san francisco the city and san -- the city and county of san francisco with the wonderful list of contributions and a congressman is that i will spare you but are nonetheless are part of this proclamation, and recognize today, october 8, 2009, will forever be known as arab heritage month in our great city. thank you all very much. [applause] >> so today is the first day of arab heritage month. i want to remind people that i

the shanghai and san francisco. this is a 30 relationship that stretches back to win dianne feinstein was the mayor of san francisco. we premiered a new work of art here in san francisco called the three heads, six arms. welcome to san francisco. thank you for bringing your extraordinary sculpture. can you tell me about what inspired you to create this sculpture? >> this started with some trips that i took years ago. i went to to bed and i saw a lot of statues and i started to really feel the spiritual life of people in tibet. it really inspires me and i went back to shanghai and i started the creation of this. >> we see that one of the heads of the bullet it is your face. can you talk about the significance of that? -- we see that one of the heads of the buddha is your face. >> i started doing public art almost 10 years ago. what i want to express this as an extension of my our practice. this is an accumulation of my own experience as a performance artist. >> we see that the scale is very important. we have seen ot

she moved to san francisco in 1945. she has lived in the western district before moving to the bayview district. she is the member of the order of eastern star for more than 40 years. she has served as a stay at home mom. everybody calls their mom a king. is the mother of 14 children. a host of other neighborhood children. on behalf of the board, i extend my pur-congratulation and proclaimed august 6, 2010, katy king in honor of your 100th birthday. [applause] >> ok. good evening, everybody. i say, thank god. i know i am loved. all of you are showing that you care for me to put your time out and have me down here. joining with me a few days before my birthday. i want you all to remember me in your prayers. do not doubt me. i am not going to turn back. i am fighting to get up to the king's highway. i would talk longer, but my breath it's too short. when you are young, enjoy your life. here i am. i still say to thank you all again. i appreciate it. [applause] >> happy birthday, mama king. make sure you come back for your

san francisco is a large city. so if we adjust this for injuries per capita, we still see san francisco is still showing a lot of pedestrian injuries but not as strongly, now we see that san francisco and berkley have maybe close to 2 times as many pedestrian injuries as san jose or richmond. this does again men t mean that francisco is more dangerous place to walk than san jose or richmond. what we need to do is account for the amount of walking, and this is using census data. we don't do a good job in america keeping track of how much walking occurs. census data asks how you get to work on the long form. it turns out to pretty good measure of walking in the community, but as you can see here there's ten times as much walking in berkley or san francisco as maybe san jose or richmond. so, if we adjust the per capita injury rate for the number of walkers, we see a very different view of the injury rate here in san francisco. actually san francisco and berkley now look quite good. the injury risk per person walking i

it is with deep sadness that i and other san francisco families have the values of san francisco public employees at the end of this month. his leadership and commitment will be missed and it is a replaceable. thank you very much for this honor. thank you. [applause] >> as a parent who has had the opportunity to have two of his children to go through pili -- pine lake the kamp, i have to say, thank you for doing this. this is a great opportunity to thank dave for what he has done. i cannot imagine what we have done without it. you need your medical professionals and you need everybody. you need a good, solid, recreation program. that is what we had in the summer with dave in pine lake. >> thank you very much for the presentations. are there any others for the day? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in the meeting of the following individual on behalf of the full board of supervisors. president chiu: i know we are about to recessed for our first break since christmas. i would like to thank all of you for the tremendous work that you have been doing. i know it has been a very busy time.

what an exciting day for san francisco. when we can all come together to be reminded of our traditions and the courage of our first responders. i'm so excited to be here with the fire chief. he's been remembering how the fire department helped us out of the earthquake some few years before coit tower was built and also of course with our fire chief remembering the important role that the first responders play. telegraph hill has always been a place that our citizens gather in san francisco, the beautiful vantage points over which christopher column buss looks out. as an italian american i take special pride in the fact that columbus is here. and over the years i took my children and more recently visitors and members of the congress to telegraph hill to see this incredible monument to love of san francisco. to see the murals inside which are a tribute to the working man. some find that controversial. i don't and i think it's time to remind ourselves of that at this time and to remember that those were projects of the w.p.a.

celebrate the sister city relationship between shanghai and san francisco. san francisco is well-known for it's cultural diversity, and it has always a long-standing and profound friendship with the chinese people. the former mayor, diane feinstein proclaimed the inception of the sister-city relationship between the two cities. and thanks to the concerted efforts after these 30 years. this relationship has achieved remarkable and substantial rulls. there have been 225 projects of cooperation between the two cities. many chinese companies have found a home here. i think what is more significant is that this city is going to stage a san francisco place at the world expo in shanghai. that is an expression of profound friendship and strong special bonds between our two cities, and it will surely give new impetus to the friendship and cooperation between our two cities. this sculpture will stay here for a period of time. i think it will help local people to understand china, understand chinese history, chinese culture and the chinese philosophy of harmony. it wil

to be approximately 1 mile of sanitary sewage-only surprise in san francisco. -- pipes in san francisco. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with waste water. this is an operations and maintenance plan. we have to have this as part of our permit. i have my collection system manager with me, mr. harris, and he has a wonderful map showing where these areas are, and he can answer any questions. so this operations plan is required by the state and specifically applies to areas delineated by the map compaq about 5000 linear together. -- delineated by the map, about 5000 linear altogether. >> can you point out what that might be? >> that is the point. it covers 5000 linear feet of sewer. we will have more sanitary systems in the future, but we are required by the state, since we do have some, and the whole plan is of these on the map. >> 5000 linear feet, a couple in the presidio, lake merced. >> that is correct. the registry is i actually on the border -- is actually on the border. you're exactly right, those are the areas. >> f.a.q, tom. he highlighted it. all right. -- president crowley

no city invites the hard to soar like san francisco does. and renowned san francisco and may have set a better when she said the some of them -- synonym for san francisco is inspiration. most people think that cities inspire leaders and leaders inspire cities, but i would like to add that artists inspired cities and cities inspire artists. who knows which in print -- which inspiration comes first? it does not really matter, what matters is that happens. right here in our city, generation after generation. we are proud to participate tonight in the recognition of one of music's greatest artists. to continue to fulfill the pledge from one year ago to expand the coverage of the arts and support arts in our community. we want to thank you for allowing us to move out on this rewarding mission, thanking you for the opportunity to serve tonight on this stage and on the stage that is our city, every day of the week. we are honored to share this night with one of the musical greats of all time. we want to congratulate carlos on a wonderful, outstandi

of san francisco for the next 30 or 40 years. that means tens of thousands of jobs and all kinds of infrastructure improvements. if that was not enough from the budget to the hunters point deal, we were also an extraordinarily proud to have had speaker nancy policy out here, senator barbara boxer out here, and countless others celebrate our groundbreaking at the terminal. we will be developing a world- class grand central station on the west coast of the west coast. i call it a grander station. it is a new intermodal facility creating a regional transit hub. 11 transit agencies will feed in from 88 area counties into this world class hub. there will be ground-floor retail. there will be 2600 new units of housing. 30% of them will be available below market. there will be the ability ultimately to connect the high- speed rail from san francisco to l.a. and ultimately down to anaheim and eventually to sacramento. to have the key terminus there at the terminal. the speaker was there. she has been extraordinarily helpful for decades.

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i own two liquor licenses in san francisco. born and raised here for 57 years and i've got 40 years of bar ownership or management. i came on short notice. i don't have slides, graphs, powerpoint presentations, but i can positively tell you of the five cents of tax issue per beverage that has been brought upon us over the last 40 years, it has never occurred on a federal level or a state level that the five cent per beverage remains after it's been distributed through. so this does positively come anywhere from 25 cents to 50 cents per unit per beverage when this is all multiplied out. on top of all the business tax and everything else as any small business in san francisco, i urge you to vote no on that. one other thing i'd like you to know which has been mentioned, if you go through bars, cafes, pizza parlors, large and small restaurants, retail stores, liquor stores, wine stores, sporting venues and hotels, it's approximately 100 pages of the yellow page correctly. all of these customers will be affected by these tax increas

francisco, and he made art in san francisco a priority. he wanted to make sure the money we were spending was spent on artists from the bay area. it was very important to him that this happened. as many of you may or may not know, san franciscans -- san francisco is one of the city with the most artists per capita. our government agencies spend more money on arts than any other government agency per- capita, and the foundations that work in san francisco spend more of a percentage of their money on art in san francisco, so with that -- for them, we're all grateful, and we will talk more about them. without further ado, supervisor david chiu. >> hello, fellow travelers. i go to a lot of events every day, and i have to say, this was the event i was looking forward to all week. yes, and one feel that way? happy friday, by the way. i'm going to say a couple of things that elected officials probably should not. when i was a kid, one of my favorite pastimes was to launch off bottle rockets. and if i had gotten some better grades in physics, i mi

she has served in boards, planned parenthood, and leadership san francisco. she became the first executive director of the chicano latino foundation. this organization helps and empowered people so they can go to college. it's a wonderful, wonderful organization that has been doing a lot with so little and that's really because of her commitment and because your heart is there in helping all latinas. that's why you are one of the honorees. let's give her a big round of [applause] ! [applause] >> at this time, i would like to thank a couple of individuals for the true spirit in helping this -- make this a collaborative effort. we have organizations, we have a mexican restaurant and those that helped provide food for the reception over here and josie, thank you so much. you always give. the mission vocational schools, florida street cafe and cattering company and the latino culinary company out of the center for latino arts. thank you for your contribution to this event. i also would like to thank our partners from barefoot wines and vitamin water who at this m

elaine is a longtime member of the city and county of san francisco. the department of finance and administration is the second- largest division out of six at the port. it oversees the regular finance functions, which john and i cannot wait to pass back. tina olson left in november 2009, and in the interim nine months, we have a five-year financial forecasts, our first- ever two-year budget, our 10- year capital plan, etc., etc. thank you so much for coming back and joining us. elaine has worked for many different from a tiny city, including the san francisco airport finance division, the board of supervisors has a legislative and budget analyst, and most recently, she was the chief financial officer for the department of city planning, so we are extraordinarily lucky to have recruited her to the port, and i wish you a tremendous term, and there's plenty of work still to do, so i did not want to think we did adopt want you to think we did it all in your absence -- i did not want you to think we did it all in your absence. please welcome elaine. next,

because san francisco is so young. -- because san francisco is so young, it is riddled by faults. i have a map that shows the faults across the bay area and san francisco. the granddaddy of all of these is the san andreas fault. it is the longest. it can generate the greatest earthquakes. >> it is just south of san francisco. it goes offshore down here. >> from my house to the fault is about 3 miles on average. >> the closest area in san francisco to the fault is this area here in the southwest part of the city. people said that the closer you are, there are conditions that exacerbate issues. >> the fault's effect on development depends on the fault type and soil component. the san andreas is the main fault. there is the hayward fault. the difference between the two is that the san andreas is predominantly offshore. the hayward fault actually crosses beneath populated areas and poses a larger threat. as we speak, there is a 67% probability of a major earthquake on one of these faults in the next 30 years. it is of major -- high probability. it is a magnitude 6.5. the 1906 was 7.9.

we admire san francisco day. during the last century's, barcelona and san francisco were considered harbor cities. for many decades we have been receiving populations from many different countries. you are in western get me to the united states and we are the capital for the in mediterranean region. we are both seen as open cities, for many european cities the word of san francisco for barcelona means open minded cities. this is important for us. we have many things in common in the past but also the present. we have read some of your economic proposals, like mission bay, similar to some of our high-tech projects in barcelona. i want to express our gratitude, mayor newsom, for your projects that you have introduced. as well, above all, i hope this ceremony is a commitment for a good relationship. we have many things to share, compared, learn together. in our agreement, we mentioned civil rights, transfer, education, art, and many other things. i hope that started the day we could consolidate new levels of coopera

-- for the healthy san francisco program. >> this one-year contract is with the san francisco community health authority to provide payment or reimbursement to non- department providers who are critical to the overall operation of the healthy san francisco program. it was conceived as a partnership and we believe it is important for community-based organizations to deliver services to this population. we of contracted with them in the past. the body of work for this continues. there is a current effort to ensure access to care. we concur with the recommendation of the budget analyst. chairperson avalos: very good. let's hear from mr. rose. >> mr. chairman, on page 6 of our report we point out that this contract was originally awarded on a sole-source basis to the san francisco community health authority. it has never been competitively bid. the department does explain why we concur with the department. we know that they are a separate -- that this agency, sfcha, is separate and distinct from the city and county of san francisco and as such has not been subject to any independent oversig

not the san francisco station. i urge you to not allow vaback to get additional money from the comcast account. on the basis that they have very similar to what steve has said, not exhibited the amount of trp -- transparency and accountability that the expenditure of public funds requires. i filed the complaint with the sunshine ordinance task force that ruled that they had violated the sunshine law on may 25 of this year. vaback has been very difficult to communicate with. and to give you one example when i submitted programs way back in november, initially it was easy to do and then i submitted a second set in december and i was told, mind you after already having been through their application process, i was told that this time i had to let them scan my driver's license into their computer system. i wrote the executive director a letter on december 20 which now eight or nine months later i still don't have a reply from. that was why i went to sunshine. i was getting nothing but stonewalled there. i have later fo

we now have 10 hotels here in san francisco. actually one in coopertino. 54 fine dining restaurants. during that time, since our first hotel, we've been amassing high-impact, non-intrusive, eco-friendly operational business practices, to reduce energy and waste consumption in our hotels, and we do things that include trying to find the smartest and best price to use that have the least impact on the environment. we've been a very big supporter of the trust republic land and the nature conservancy as well. and we've done all this without sacrificing the care and comfort that's so important to all our customers. and now we incorporate more than 100 ecofriendly business practices every day at every one of our hotels. and over time, that's added up to a very big effort. and we like to talk about the impact that it's had, and the way we talk about it has been how many olympic swimming pool sizes of water have we saved, or how many thousands of houses that we could have lit up with the energy that we saved. so we decided that maybe we

i owned a bar with my wife in the city of san francisco. i know how small businesses are suffering in this city right now. business is declining. i know that this service is critical, but i would like to point out three things. we have a federal system. it is the state's responsibility to tax of all. this fee is a regressive flat tax. the plump jack groups of the world, they will be able to handle this feat. but the corner store, they will not be able to handle this. the second point, san francisco has roughly the same budget as chicago. chicago is 3.5 times the size of san francisco. we cannot find $18 billion? pay for this? i have been doing some research myself. the marin institute, which published this next study, they do not just want to charge for farm. they want to start a new prohibition. if you are a student of history, you know how that turns out. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> my name is mike pedro and i want to talk about the impact that this will have on the youth of my community. working with youth in terms of talking

a live look inside from our roof cam over downtown san francisco a mix of clouds and some over san francisco this afternoon we are seeing sunshine in land and downs of a up to the north is just the coastline of trotted and fog. will see that the fog move back into the bay this evening here by tomorrow morning dance fog and drizzle the fog will change that much tomorrow night for the temperatures. big board up in store his release sunday into next week. similar temperatures tomorrow afternoon. hello 80 in the lowest inland spots. fog tracker for tomorrow morning the fog very similar to what we saw out there for today. patch along the delta and also patchy down into the south bay. we're going to see that fog lingered close to the coast line go into the 9:00 hour the bay shores will still see the fog and parts of the north bay. the coastline will remain shrouded in the fog out there tomorrow afternoon. a look at temperatures tomorrow very similar to what we saw today. 61 san francisco, and land in the upper '70's low 80's and index of '60s and '70s for the rest of the bay area. a big warm up wi

circuit court in san francisco. experts say the case is headed to a much higher court. >> whatever happens, this is going to the supreme court. and both sides have a real shot there. the court is fairly evenly divided between conservatives and liberals. >> despite the stay, preventing same sex marriages for now, same sex marriages supporters packed castro street in san francisco to celebrate the judge's decision. >> the candidates in california's races are reacting to the decision. jerry brown released a statement via twitter saying proposition 8 violates the equal protection guarantee of the 14th amendment of the united states constitution by taking away the right of same sex couples to marry without sufficient governmental interest. meg whitman said i believe marriage should be between a man and a woman and added we have a forward-looking civil union law. u.s. senate candidates also split along party lines. barbara boxer applauded judge walker's ruling while carly fiorina said the voters spoke clearly when they ap

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circuit court of appeals in san francisco. the losing side must file a merits appeal asking the court to decide if judge walker's ruling was proper. both sides want that quickly. beyond that it is expected that the case will go to the u.s. supreme court. it's expected to get to the u.s. supreme court. as word of the ruling was getting outs there were some moments of confusion couples hoping they could get married at city hall immediately. but nine minutes after the ruling the stay was made official. >> i was actually calling back east to some of the folks that i know in the boies law firm to say, look, what is your opinion as we're sifting through this? because we have people lined up and i need to tell them what to do and literally by the time that was processed, we got the official stay, someone got on the blackberry and said wait a second, and then we stopped. >> reporter: but they may soon restart. the decision didn't affect the 18,000 couples who wed before the voters passed prop 8 between may and november of 2008, which

i want to run as mayor in san francisco in 2011. i am speaking in the public house, on behalf of the public interest, and i am shocked. it is nice to be here in a room that is owned by the people and city and county of san francisco. it is nice to see you people in the chambers of the elected representatives and using this facility for the planning and development of treasure island. i would like to ask a simple question. are we going to turn ourselves for what we already own? are we going to delegate that to corporations through charge us read for the resources that are already ours? is that what we are going to do? are we going to disrespect the fact that this property was owned by the federal government and there is a title claim that one of the other dunham and has already spoke about today? we are going to disregard the people and city in the state of california, the claims of the coastal commission to regulate the coast properties and waters. that is what we are going to do? i would caution us to pay attention to what is happe

in san francisco. we provide housing to people at certain income levels. and the city tasks to make sure that those people continue to meet those income levels. it is a base misstatement of fact that a, that information has not been given to you and b, that somehow it has escaped our minds. second of all, it isn't 50% of the housing that is subsidized in san francisco. folks, it's 100%. the largest housing subsidy in this country is mortgaged tax deduction. 100% of the housing market in this country is subsidized by the federal and state government. so why do you want to point out or hold out affordable housing as being somehow subsidized and not somehow paying its way is absurd. all housing in this counry is subsidized by the government, directly or indirectly. the largest single housing subsidy of the federal government over $2 trillion is the mortgage tax deduction, in addition, anybody who owns rental property knows you get to deduct expenditures for rent from your federal taxes as well. so it's al

one year in san francisco and elsewhere. i want to stress there are many areas of cultivation which fit in the structure legally for how this should occur. i want to encourage you as this process goes forward to consider what some other juries dicks have already done. san francisco in 2005, when we led in this area, were leaders. san francisco and oakland were inventing the idea. the determine "dispensary" didn't exist. now there are many areas that have addressed dispension -- napa, and many other places. they have bifurcated between individual cultivation in homes, for example, in napa where it can't exceed 25% of the residential facility, and then they are defined differently anywhere, to cultivate on larger scales and regulating those uses and creating land use for them. i know it is a lot to bite off, and it was als a complicated topic. but thank you for initiating this conversation and encourage you to involve more people in it who are approaching this issue from a variety of ways, especially from the small patient col

the san francisco symphony, the ballet, and ensure we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the san francisco museum of modern art's. one of the things many of our viewers may not understand about museums is the way they grow and evolve is really about a broad. his patient and support from many individuals who give their collections -- and broad support from many individuals who give their collections to the museum. this year it will be celebrating and abolishing those individuals through exhibition -- and acknowledging those individuals throughout asia. joining me is janet bishop, the curator. i understand you have been with the museum quite a number of years. you remember its original home on van ness. now you are part of that transition to the center, the civic center, and of course your museum has been really the anchor of cultural tenants that has helped us transform this area of the city. >> to my mind, it is wonderful to be part of such a rich cultural community. when visitors come to this area, that have so many different options. >> let's talk about the anniversary show, wh