is a wealthy city. we spend a lot of money on social services in our city. ~ but why are these social services not impacting people's lives the way it's changing people's lives for the better? i want to make sure that we work with residents and we work to help them grow within public housing and to not be plitioned out of the city as a result. i think that's one of the big issues. the other issue is connecting people to job opportunities. long-term employment, stable employment, employment that gives people dignity, that gives them pride. i mean, everyone wants to take care of their family. and sadly, people are sometimes pushed into a life of crime because that's the easy route to obtaining money. i mean, it was really easy for me as a kid to choose to sell drugs because everyone around me was selling drugs. wasn't easy for me to get a job because i didn't have a lot of examples of people working other than my grandmother who was working as a maid, or other folks i saw working at the grocery store. so,

we have corridors of our city yet to be connected up so that when anybody comes in to the city, whether they're visiting from another state or whether they're from another country, they'll know that this city reflects the innovative spirit when they arrive at the airport, when they arrive at the port or they arrive on muni. they'll know we're all connected up. so, again, i want to say thank you to supervisor farrell and his staff for shepherding this, for all the departments that have worked collaboratively with google and our sf city, our citizens initiative for technology and innovation. they are an incredible group of people. and, by the way, i've been told now they sport 600 members and they're still growing. i wouldn't be surprised that they will now comprise the majority of the over 1800 technology firms that exist in san francisco. and they want to do more and they want to join all of our neighborhoods to do more to improve life in our city for everybody. so, thank you to everyone on this wonderful effort. now, may i present to you the host for district 11 and someone who we were

be some city entity. the estimated transfer date for those would be in the next 3-4 years. then finally building 13, that one is the same as it is in the memo. that one we will acquire once it's transferred from the navy and that building will be sold at market value but with the restriction that it must be used for the a designated facility use. it would be built by the developer but the actual renovation on building 13 would have to be completed later when the property is sold. the estimated transfer date in this case is within 5 years. so that's the shipyard. the mission bay park parcels are a little different. we don't own these parcels. we lease them from the city. right now we are leasing about 13 acres of parkland that has been finished. we lease these parks from the city for property management purposes. we lease them and thp we maintain them with funds from a community facilities district. so we lease 13 now on this map. the ones that we lease now are shown in dark green which means they are owne

hurwitz: currently, city tunnel 1 and city tunnel number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we fi

the city and county of san francisco >> mr. murphy. >> sure so one of the troubling points of prop a there's a catch all in the amendment that the contributions of the employee and accident planned contribution by the city are insufficient to meet the requirements of the truth you fund the city is on the hook for the balance. which means in practical terms we have to cut from somewhere else or raise taxes. and the picture of retiree health care where we can fund health care on 3 percent of people's annual salaries is a little bit rosy. it's not something we can really bet on with health care costs and benefit costs rising at the, you know, 3 and 44 percent. salaries rising at 3 and 4 percent rather. its far greater than the pace of inflation and greater than the contributions >> so we have a little bit of time level overview left are supervisor farrell when i started working on prop a it was important in san francisco. i made sure we assaulted with our labor and all communities. i'm proud to say we have the support of every mem

and the rest of the wonderful city hall staff. and thank you to the supervisors and phil for the certificates of honor and thank you to the filipino consulate and their amazing crew for their support. also this event would not happen without the sponsors thank you to at&t and the public works f c. the food sponsors i hope you guys enjoy the food we have many in the filipino kitchen and social brewery and gold i didn't locks. i also want to thank the performing artists we have befrt cruz who sang the anthem and last but not least i want to thank the volunteers (calling names) so i hope you have a nice evening and see you next year >> thank you once again one more time for al perez. let's hear it one more time. thank you for citing >> i'd like to through a quick shout out to the studio in the south of market they're the only dedicated filipinos in the area. i didn't get a chance to introduce this man earlier. he puts together a fusion of music. please welcome them. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i hear you calling my nam

attorney's office when i got the job i was so excited to work in this city i've load this city since a child envy grandparents and great, great grandparent were here. so i was so exfoliated about getting the job i didn't ask about the salary and 43 years later i'm happy to come to work. i reported yesterday reporting i entered a little change when the building was built in 18912 many of the decks still had the ink stains our office clerk still reported all our cases in big lernlz in handwriting and the ibm selected twoirp was just coming into the office. the space would have been built for 10 attorneys was built for 35 attorneys and one was an alderman and one female and all the rest white i've been fortunate i've had some great challenges and lewis who really transformed the office into a diverse talented public staff and lawyers in the nation and the community outreach team. it was muc

and creating centralized shared, city fleet and tracking the city vehicle usage. and we prioritize the mayor's task force report. and establishing other city department allieas a way to create more buy in and leveraging. and the large events and the sustainability and taking the lessons learned from the america's cup and other activities promoting a sustain able super bowl in san francisco when it comes here. a department and relationship of the general fund, and these are, we just had a lot of fun. making that list. and those are the kinds of things that the department is working on that we might well decide that after we have a discussion, hopefully at the retreat, were worth investing our resources in. so that is what we thought, and hopefully you will all also have some thoughts. >> on the retreat. >> thank you, commissioner wald. >> could i ask, commissioner josefowitz. >> i have a question from commissioner king and if i could just ask director nutter, as we kind of hear the feedback from the commission, this idea can this be, do we have the time and the ban

spread out between redwood city and south bay cities it took us several years to get going and the reality is they end up being more expensive than you thought they were going to. so half those bikes and 35 stations in san francisco we do have the funding in hand so another 150 bikes for san francisco and we expect to roll that out early 2014 in the first quarter sometime very excited about that. just want to talk a little bit about -- first of all, this stretch is basically from midmarket, market and van ness to the embarcadero and the financial district and a good swatch of the water front. we had permitting issues at pier 40. but this is the initial service area and how do we choose that service area? i'll get to that later i'll talk a little bit about some early use if that's all right these are interesting and exciting numbers. i just want to grab my notes really quickly. >> so this shows trips from mid-august through last week i wasn't able to chart the latest data. overall san francisco trips the blue line peaks out at almost 12 hundred trips we're averaging somewhere between 900 an

>> john from the city attorneys office. it's a difficult question to respond to in light of for example supervisor kim acknowledging that there might be tenant groups that might want to challenge the interpretation. i would be reluctant as a legal matter to support that interpretation. the language is pretty clear to me that it's issuance of a notice and it doesn't pertain, it doesn't talk about when the tenant is evicted. it doesn't talk about the tenant at all in the definition. so i do think it's reasonable to take the position that it's this particular notice of termination. >> i understand that, but the fact that you are not willing to say that it's reasonable to take the other position or it's unreasonable to take the other position is troubling actually. and sort of makes it seem like in fact you could have a number of different and yet reasonable interpretations which means that your interpretation could be the right one, it could also be the wrong one. so that is not, doesn't really give a lot of reassurance to wha

i don't see how a city can function when only 10 percent can afford to live in the city. i wish you a lot of lucky think you will succeed thank you >> next speaker >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm mrs. lee i'm here today because you know i was also a victim of ellis eviction. my landlord used the outlines to evict me i found a place to live with my family. i'm glad for the community support and the city government and also the board of supervisors. i'm really here today to not talk about myself but those still out there still being evicted and displaced. i recommend and suggest that in the city we really need to think and to look deeply in how to address the eviction issue. for a lot of people that applied for the applications those are people we need to think about because when it comes down to it i don't believe the ellis act should be used by landlord as a way to evict tenant. in particular our city we need to take a course of objection action in that regard. there a lot of seniors people that are disabled have a hard time finding housing. at the same tim

in this year's city budget we have investment in our school budget. guess what they are comfortably as we go on in dramatic dramatic form and this year for the first time in our cities history nearly $50 million is going to our public schools and $25 million in universal preschools that's another great accomplished. we launched yes say thank you to the people that came up with the money. and it's going to end up not no bureaucracy by with the kids. we launched programs that started forging our relationship with this technology companies because we want them to be part of what we need to get done if the city not who we blame to be the rich folks they're going to share their wealth so tech sf. anybody know how many jobs we treated e created this summer? 6 thousand 2 hundred jobs for our youth yes, that's a lot to be celebrated. i told you will tech well, mr. tech and a us worked really, really hard to get our technical companies to recognize the challenge in our schools. guess what we did we got $3 million informing into our school initiatives and all k

why did you choose to stay in the city >> i love the city. i'm very passionate about the city. i made the decision to focus on children and the families. i keep on asking the same question when i was younger why would i want to focus my efforts in san francisco. are there other places in the world where i could make a difference. i'm talking about the late 50s and 60s. there was at that time, a lot of population coming in from china. it was an opportunity for me to help people that were struggling in awe second amendment and getting used to things over here. >> what motivated you to get involved in politics. >> part of my motivation i guess you have to look at where i started. i as i mentioned he earlier i wanted to help people and at the time it was children and family. after many, many years of serving people i realized in providing services that somehow, i have to impact the decision-makers so i started advocating on issues i cared about. i was somewhat effective and wouldn't it be nice if i could do something different i ran an organization for 20 years. i felt i needed to

and, again, just communications with city departments. there were a couple departments that only -- i think the ones where it was more complicated conducting the interview or city departments where they only have one form they fill out that affects small businesses, or organizations where really they only deal with small businesses a couple times a year. having an annual visit to each department would help a lot and also i think just, you know, including these city organizations newsletters or reaching out to them and saying, we'd like to describe your organization and the role you play in our next newsletter. so, that was a very fast presentation, 25-page survey. we really enjoyed this project. again to summarize, the objection levels were very, very high. people loved working with -- they knew everyone that worked in the organization by name. and one director in particular i think had good experiences working with regina when they had to work their ada issues, when they worked on policy issues, they were always very pleased with the rel

is our city, where are we compared to other cities in the u.s. when it comes to building affordable housing? are we at par, are we below other cities, are we ahead of the curve or what? because i think it's important for us to understand that if we are indeed below average in terms of building enough affordable housing then we really need to refocus on our approach of how city planning is going to accept the type of development that we see in the city. >> thank you, supervisor yee, and let me say i think all of those questions are excellent questions and our hope was that this report would provide an initial view of what's happening but clearly we need to delve into the why and i think that we have to be careful in making sure that we don't, you know, cast a wide net that doesn't recognize that there are also, you know, within the land lord community many responsible players and i know that the san francisco apartment association has been helpful in assisting some individual families. i think the speculators that supervisor mar is talking about i

now we have a city hall family smart enough to lie for each other. now we have david chiu having us arrested. now the lies don't matter because only money matters. in fact, it's been a rough 50 years and the lies cost more than the money. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. >> if you want to pull the mic. a little closer to you. >> sure. >> perfect, thank you. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the board, my name is [inaudible] aluciano, and also with me are some of my co-workers of at&t ballpark, i've worked concessions at the giants games since 1976. in 1993, volume servers which is now known as center plate took over the concessions from harry and stephen. we all went to the union but we didn't have job security in our contract language. in order to keep our jobs, we all had to agree to take a $4 an hour wage cut. it's taken 20 years for us to get back to that rate that we had there before. we want to make sure that the situation never happens again by winning job security language in this contract. the wor

when we approach the city or when staff approaches the city it's not a generic wish, it's something very concrete. >> i'm okay with that. >> okay. do we have that language proposal clear? >> did we get that? >> i think you could have it as a second resolve so be it further resolved that the commission hereby strongly urges the city and county of san francisco to take into consideration the concerns and demands of the relevant communities, including but not limited to fillmore and hunters point. >> that sounds great. >> would those recommendations come from us, is it our job to get those recommendations attached to? >> i think we do not have to answer that question today. you know why? because part of the reason why i've been so vague about the whole process is there cease on the properties that will transfer to offices of so we need to look at how that's going to work. okay. >> i move a resolution that has that language in it. >> i second the stipulation. >> thank you very much. madam secretary please call the roll. >> johnson. >> i. >> the vote is five i's. >> thank you very much. we're

i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more sustain >> (clapping) good morning. >> good morning. thank you, don for that introduction i'm glad to be here at the tonight center again. it's also great to be here. i was telling me our deputy secretary marie this this was one of the first when we went through the translation of that to use the arresting are a fund it was such an enlightening positive effort in the tenderloin to use the federal program that president obama gave us. i'm here to welcome you to san francisco and thank you for being here for the home matters for health symposium. it is the right place to be because t n d c has been a powerful change and i'm glad their championinging the center between health. no one else can do that because you've got it it right here in the community. today's symposium is part of a commitment that our city is making. i wanted to let you know all the things we're going to continue the housing for everybody. last week, we you wanted up the helen rogers and

economic development, it has potential and we've seen the largest positive impacts happening at the city level. here at the local level, we have a unique opportunity to reevent and reimagine the opportunity we can have between our city residents and government, we've seen open data used in practice already and we can see how it can accomplish all of the positive benefits i mentioned, whether it's to help publish health scores on their website, helping residents making healthier choice, or make sf rec park to help people make picnic reservations or using your smart phone, all the examples i just mentioned are real examples of how open data can improve the lives of our city resident, further fuel economic growth here in san francisco. specifically, this ordinance will enumerate open data numerical standards, it creates a sense of accountability and certain for the public and entrepreneurial community, it creates city staff and agencies to interact with the public about relevant data set and is the priority of certain data set and is creates for the first time in the nation a strategy for r

it's the city. it might have different departments it's a city. that's a pity because you treat us like, let me say this ladies and gentlemen, i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of all these 20 years. i'm right in the motion of disrupting this whole ocean. mission bay, hunters point, all that, what they call it file an injunction to stop everything. this is the beginning that you are going to come saturday to see all the millions that you invested from before you were even born has failed missably in the western district. you hear everything else. one thing is for sure, it ain't no mystery. all you have to do is check your history. now i'm happy that you are coming out. i believe she's worked with the feeling better. we'll see now what happens. >> okay. thank you very much. long range property management plan we have our meeting on november 19th to actually approve it. are there any questions either on the items we talked about today which are the ones to be determined draft plans or on properties we talked about in our last workshop in s

he was given a key to the city at city hall and a huge thank you for saving the city. ktvu's rob ross is live now in san francisco where the boy's story of hope brought a city together. rob. >> well, julie, the nooif-year-old said he always wanted to be a superhero and to many in san francisco today, that's exactly what he is. it was right out of a five-year-old's dream. miles, a little boy surviving cancer wanted to be like his hero batman, and transformed into batkid and went off to fight crime. in the morning, he save adam sell stuck on the cable car line, then stopped the riddler from robbing a bank. then received an heroes welcome wherever he went. >> great story. i'm proud of his family for doing all this, and i'm proud of the bay area for everybody coming together just to make this kid's wish come true. >> the story touched people. they wanted to be a part of it so they cheered at union square and danced on cue. it was all part of the plan to warn batkid that penguin kidnapped giants mascot and sped off to at&t park. batkid and batman spoiled the plan, saved luc

>>at kid, san fncisco, tham city. no other city could pull this off. the energy out here is amazing. >> reporter: tre will be many in coc boos and movies, but a 5-year-oldoy today proved them wrong. >> it's bee apecial day. bat kid fever spread fareyond the bay are this video message.a recrded >> wait to go,miles. y to save gotham. he posted that on vin. the red sox mscot tweete thanks to miles f saving lucielle. even the villains had special twitte account today. the riddlernd pguin posted foiled by bat kid.of being prosecutors issuedederal indictments for the riddl and penguins. theocument notes the two villains an appeal but, quote, gooduck with that because bat kid is looking out for the citizens. you can watch vid and read the indictnt by the feral prosecutors. just clickn penguin-rddler charge. that's all on nbcbayarea.com. >>> new at 5:00, a close call for a san francisco police officer this morni. a cartruck the police officer knocking him off the motorcycle. he wataken awan an bulance and is expected to survi survive. >> we'rerying to determin

make this city shine and in mine. city be kind and it no line and it going to be hungry. free downtown. you will be playing city politics. there is the city and she's climbing the stairway to heaven. when she gets there she knows that general hospital's programs are all closed. we are always going to be down road. it has to be closer for dialysis. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon. board of supervisors, i'm here to say that tomorrow i'm attending a funeral and i noticed in bayview, in that small area there is a lot of black men dying of prostate cancer. these contractors out there have refused to an abate the dust, the rest of them. the other day there was a meeting at my home where i asked the supervisors what can be done about this contract. if they were in a white community. they would not refuse to abate the dust. it's horrible out there in the ship yards. it's not all right. every week there are two or three black men dying from cancer. it's epidemic but no one wants to deal with it. what's confusing to me if those many white men are dying in the district or anywhe

i'd like 80 to see the city's official bird on the city-state site. that's itself crane. as gordon was whispering in my ears we're going to do the right thing keep the strong commitment to the affordability in our city and this is one of the examples to come we're already beginning those negotiations. and i've started that conversation and we're going to grass what we need to do to build affordable housing for everyone. we need to continue to build and we'll work with the community on that. having said that i love this very great example that i think we're exemplifying for the rest of the country when we have is a possible displacement of valuable residents on wants center railroad site we take care of them. i want to thank the sfavd for bridging their lives all this period of time it was a very delicate thing we all want the central subway to exist in chinese town but sometimes, the good can be bad unless we handle had conversation in a special way. we did that. awe midget a complicated election time we said we're going to take care of everybody in the city that's why th

in city hall on the gym both bob's city not only for the particular building but how it relates to other buildings in san francisco that are losing their economic, their institutional pieces and how we as a city can apply ourselves to keeping that vitality going and certainly the work you've done as a commission that ms. brown as your staff will be part of that because we're pleased with what you've done and thankful you've he will taken this you object up. i have some information about the hearing i'm give to clerk >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm desiree smith. as you recall we are we were here and we're here again to reiterate our comments and data we're still in support of the nomination of the designation of marcus book store and jim boss bob city. we've reviewed the second draft of the report and believe the planning department did the great job you all brought up and we think overall the additional japanese interim time and between the japanese-american and african-american communities has made the report stronger so we you're goin

that has been a great thing for the city. we're lucky enough to have monique here and i'll give you an over view of where the task force is as it finishes up its work and it's a tremendous thing that's happening for san francisco and the mayor has been able to on reconvene that. i want to introduce monique. >> thank you for having me here. it's nice to be here. as mr. reiskin said the task force was created by the mayor and we have members of the task force who represent the operators in the area represent business and labor advocates of transportation of streets head by transit of course and we are trying to come together with consensus to identify the needs for transportation in san francisco and develop an investment plan and come can up with a planning strategy in order to make that a reality at least in part. with that, the task has been coordinating to the transportation authority. we have looked at the county wide plan. we've reviewed the mtct plan bay area to determine what the needs are for transportation. in taking

is going to vary from city to city but typically, the reason why cities are in a position they are in is they have to tap the reserves during the worst of the fiscal crisis and when they cap reserves, they cut spending letting people go like police officers, firefighters and sometimes administrators and then when that wasn't enough, they raise taxes. cities had many tools to utilize to get through the worst of the great recession and fiscal aftermath, but, you know, they are still recovering. >> how do cities get healthy again? we know in washington there is budget problems there. that trickles down to the state finances and goes to cities. so how do you get out of this mess, and the economy is not growing much anywhere? >> you hit on a key point. cities have their role in ensuring they are on solid fiscal footing but at the same time they need the economy to start growing again, too. and part of what the state needs to do is also think about the aid they want to provide localities. the level of money that often is given to states, which is typically -- cities, rather which is typical

or we are an area that is not just one city but a number of cities and we even have more challenges that the bay area and the management district which i sit on with chair avalos, and the challenges of managing a system where they have the 50 percent of the sites but there are cities with many other sites and we have to look at the interests of the other cities as well. >> thank you. >> commissioner weiner. >> thank you. and i would like to supervisor mar and avalos and i agree. and i think that we have a broad con census about getting it expanded to the city but one of the challenges is that you can't, it does not work if you just, if you make it to diffuse in terms of the distance between the bike share stations and the system does not work well and there has to be a certain level of concentration and that makes it more challenging to expand it and this is not even in the castro or the haight or the mission yet and so it really, and i think that it should light a fire under all of us to make sure that we get the funding, to together and to do a meaningful expansion and commissione

we'll have that going as a prosperity owner until the property is transferred to the city or the city can make those policy choices as well >> i just have one comment. there's something between having that commission now just saying hopefully, the commission will come up with something and clearly it hadn't happened in the past. i think there needs to be another venue with authority to actually solve help with some of the issues >> the only comment i'll make is, you know, it sounds like time is of the essence and with the respect of the community in san francisco their undergoing tremendous change and hunter point and mission and if we wait too long and i say we the collective >> i think there's time in between now and the actual transfer or whatever we decide to do to hold the hearing or get some community folks together to make recommendations or see for it that we're doing our duty to make sure that these properties are >> those depend on the timing of the private development so it's a very fluid thing so from the heritage center that one, again, is more contingent on the results o

a lot of animals in this city. and it is very, very important that we, as a city provide an agency and a safety net agency, that is being funded and staffed in a way that matches up, to the critical important and significance of animals in the city and we have not done that. and animal care and control, is in addition to its shelter services, and a shelter that does not turn away any animal. and whether it is domesticated and whether it is wild, whether it has behave or issues or not. and this, agency has run deficits for the 7 out of the last ten years. it recently had to shut down its shelter, two days a week because of budget problems fortunately that has been reversed, although who knows for how long. it has, the agency has very few officers in the field and so stepping outside of the shelter, this is an agency that responds to calls of animal abuse. and animal neglect. and it deals with even barking dogs issues, and it deals with vicious animal issues and whether it is wild or domesticated animal and i can say

the city! [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: quite a day and all of the proceeds from these t- shirts i happen to be wearing, ken and liz go, to make-a-wish foundation. it says, batkid! everyone getting involved in today's event really truly amazing and i got to tell you, ken and liz, i know firsthand that that was batkid because he didn't need a nap today. no meltdown. that's huge. >> right. >> superpowers. >> there you go. juliette goodrich, outside city hall, thank you, juliette. >>> and the man who drew batman for d.c. comics for years tweeted this custom drawing of batkid. it came with a special message for miles and is signed by graham nolan. >>> we got the cover of the gotham city headline, the headline batkid saves city, rescues damsel in distress. >>> the white house took notice of batkid. miles got a special shoutout from president obama. >> way to go, miles! way to save gotham! >> and at this hour, batkid is the number 2 trending topic on twitter. vice president joe biden joined in

but san francisco has been on the leading and a city open the edge a city of entrepreneurs and it's a special place. i think every single one if you understand the core principle of 0 core values we don't there are not diversity we celebrate our diversity each and every day. so that's what we're celebrating but i'll be brief i've been and i want to connect a quick dot. i've been with all of you watching not only the procedures of the supreme court but what's happening with nelson mandela. i say this because of the story of nelson mandela condition it is a not ex-president by leader. and it begs the question that the mayor was making. just because you have a position of authority it didn't mean you necessarily lead it's foekdz who exercise that moral authority this changes the world. that's the life of ghandi it wasn't president ghandi or president martin luther king. its people like phillips and i and dell who sped up and had those debates that's why we're here. they didn't wait for anyone to tap them on the shoulder. its people like kate kendall and my extraordinary staff. it's folks

goad let's celebrate and god you blessed this city in so many ways. we've got people coming all over the world let's continue to work properly. amino and we have a lot of african-american clergy and we're going to introduce now michael johnson with urban core. come on michael (clappin (clapping.) i have a few prepared remarks you know the rooerdz are able to a.d. live but i've got to write my stuff down so i can be clear. so i want to thank you all for coming out today to celebrate the grand opening of the mary rogers senior center. i was home last time and before i went to bed i was trying to put together the words to say. i thought about it for the last several months. and i decided to frame it with a couple of points of history in my life. the first thing when i i was a teenager and attended a career day in philadelphia and learned with r what an architect does. i realized immediately that's what i wanted to do and went home and told mom and dad. my schooling prepared me for the education but the passion for redeveloping neighborhoods you such as t

and second, if it's to become a priority, it needs to become a priority in the city's budging plan. the mayor needs to start setting aside money in the general fund to address this and i think this body should strongly work with the mayor's budget office to make sure that the city starts budging for this and not cow towing to it. it's a priority but there has to be a marriage of the two. it has to be a priority and it has to be funded. >> thank you. councilmember wong, harriet wong. >> i was going to mention that in this low income housing that community spaces -- it's really important and now i see it in one of these resolutions here. because i think there's even, like, an sro on market and i think basically people go home and they just go back to their room and see that's a really sad way to live so community space and what the gentleman mentioned about the gardening you know the little spaces for gardening can mean a lot because that's also physical exercise for the person and -- but i do see it here so i think that's really good and that's what i had a question about. so thank y

as the lowest cost to the city. it also allows for a process to evaluate and prioritize the ifd is a concept that is still a very new one. there is only two that exist in the state and neither of them leverage debt which is what is needed in order to accomplish many of these projects. it's a complex financing mechanism. it's time consuming, it's administratively difficult to do and again we have general obligation bonds for participation which is two common ways we raise money for infrastructure as well as within our own capital plan there is pay as you go with general fund money and there are grants and other federal sources that can be leveraged with a portion of a general fund match in order to make infrastructure improvements in transportation and in parks and in other areas. so, it takes a long time to set up and an ifd the money doesn't come inform many many years. the recommendation from the controllers office and the mayor's office is to take a look at the way it's done and before entering into debt in order

we've been doing sewer for the city. we're looking at a brand-new rebuild of all watt systems in san francisco and we haven't had a home that's been other than mental. >> they staff over 900 people. the puc is in two office locations. >> you know, this is such a great place for a building. if the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldn't be a dramatic idea? >> so, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. we wanted this building to be a lead platinum building which is very few buildings in san francisco that achieved this mark. >> leadership and energy environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. i like to think of it as designed for human and environmental health. lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. indoor air quality, energy, water, materials and resources, and sustainable sites are the five categories for the lead. you can go for se

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u