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in the past two decades more than 20 cities entered into the decree, and include big cities like new orleans. the results are mixed. raising the question is the cost of reforming the nation's broken police departments too high? our next guest says maybe. steven is a law professor, writing a book called the answer to police misconduct and expert in how effective the department of justice is when it comes to reforming american police departments. good to see you. thank you for being with us. you state this 1994 law is remarkable. before it the federal government didn't have the power or jurisdiction to step in when a police force couldn't govern itself properly. there are a lot of asterisk and busts along with that accommodation. >> that's right. thank you for having me. i think everything you said so far is spot on. this is an important piece of civil right legislation that many do not know exists. it's a way that the federal government can crack down on police misconduct and cities unwilling or unable to address misconduct. it's far from a silver bullet. it is, by itself, not necessa
in the past two decades more than 20 cities entered into the decree, and include big cities like new orleans. the results are mixed. raising the question is the cost of reforming the nation's broken police departments too high? our next guest says maybe. steven is a law professor, writing a book called the answer to police misconduct and expert in how effective the department of justice is when it comes to reforming american police departments. good to see you. thank you for being with us. you...
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net of our city this services the most vulnerable and needy people in our city in august of last year saurm the full board passed a resolution that had an unanimous u amount to fund the cost of nonprofit agencies that contract with the city and the funding was con 2i7b9 on the above prejudged or projected stimulates of the 2014-2015 to be funded like the local tax and real estate transfer tackles city's recently comprehensive report caper we call it for the fiscal year mentions a year-end inappropriate surcharge of $21.6 million but the caper showed the city has a 134ur as mentioned in the resolution that was passes? august that came from again the unanticipated end revenue the board of supervisors made the commitment according to the resolution because many of the 45ird working organization provide in some of the critical serviced and that they've been chronically under contemplated over the year from 2008 to 9 the nonprofit organization received the funding from the san francisco budget & finance committee despite absorbing the high costs and in many cases not on there since 2007 or
net of our city this services the most vulnerable and needy people in our city in august of last year saurm the full board passed a resolution that had an unanimous u amount to fund the cost of nonprofit agencies that contract with the city and the funding was con 2i7b9 on the above prejudged or projected stimulates of the 2014-2015 to be funded like the local tax and real estate transfer tackles city's recently comprehensive report caper we call it for the fiscal year mentions a year-end...
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contracts if there's something that the city can do to address that city i know there's 09 challenges fits the reality we're dealing with that also does not enable us to keep with the health care costs and all the other increasing costs so really appreciate our consideration without many of our services expensive things will go up. >> thank you, ms. >> i work for the health client we do the go health serviced so 6 years i've been in this work in the city we had support important the hotels people and most at risk for as long as i've been at any of the agrees i have a comprehensive staff and seen cuts we see nonprofits getting increases and this moment i realizing realize in the absence of a cost of living increase not only the absence of an increase is is cut because everything is getting more expensive this past beyond a reasonable doubt people are displayed out of the tenderloin and sow we werelism hotels ourselves and were almost not able to find a home because of the fear of the neighborhood but one of the things we helped them understand the services that concludes my report is a
contracts if there's something that the city can do to address that city i know there's 09 challenges fits the reality we're dealing with that also does not enable us to keep with the health care costs and all the other increasing costs so really appreciate our consideration without many of our services expensive things will go up. >> thank you, ms. >> i work for the health client we do the go health serviced so 6 years i've been in this work in the city we had support important the...
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continue making a great city. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce the treasurer tax collector jose cisneros. >> thank you mr. mayor. thank you so much for your kind words and your dedication and your partnership on launching this important new tax. as you mentioned mayor prop e was passed over two years ago, and i am here to report to you and to the entire city of san francisco that we are now at the point we can say we have successfully deliver the gross tax receipts system on time and on budget. [applause] so believe me a lot of people deserve credit for that success and i will be honest it's not an easy road. our previous tax system was not just built to accommodate this kind of a measure and therefore we executed an agreement for a new tax system which configured almost all of our taxes including the new gross receipts tax. i would really like to recognize our great vendors on the project who are us today and let's acknowledge them for their great work. thank you so much. [applause]
continue making a great city. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce the treasurer tax collector jose cisneros. >> thank you mr. mayor. thank you so much for your kind words and your dedication and your partnership on launching this important new tax. as you mentioned mayor prop e was passed over two years ago, and i am here to report to you and to the entire city of san francisco that we are now at the point we can say we have successfully deliver the gross...
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a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we don't have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word we're challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months we'll have 4 major fires in the city some of them as high as three or four alarms they've effected they've had the effect of us losing over one hundred living unit and more importantly interrupting sometimes tragically the lives of so many families in the city those are disasters that are felt he very environme
a great city like san francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another internal revenue magnify this great city if we're ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the...
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but then went on to still have city contracts why would you still give city contracts that are worth more than the penalty into effect you've fined them because they were rob the public so it is warned warranted in a number of cases. >> why is the process that the city attorney mentioned why isn't that the way to handle it rather than through the ethics commission. >> well the city attorney has done it to a property developer here in san francisco and told the contractor they were going to debar you and first, it forced them into a settlement of $20 million but that doesn't - that's a process that takes place outside of the public and didn't see the public has an opportunity to make a complaint and have it referred and plus, it's a two-step you have to have a hearing here and something that goes on behind closed donors that's my answer. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> pacific islander berry this proposal adds debombardments from c from for impermissible hides i bids this will debar a contractor from a city contractor for a specific period of time this is a hash penalty whe
but then went on to still have city contracts why would you still give city contracts that are worth more than the penalty into effect you've fined them because they were rob the public so it is warned warranted in a number of cases. >> why is the process that the city attorney mentioned why isn't that the way to handle it rather than through the ethics commission. >> well the city attorney has done it to a property developer here in san francisco and told the contractor they were...
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our city college. thanksgivings to supervisor kim whos district highly impacted civic center and [inaudible] campus closeier occurred and also supervisor campus who advocate #d for city college. i think a number of you know that san franciscos school districts arts festville is this week. i believe young artist make san francisco fun vibrent and a great place to live and the art festville is a city wide demonstration of creative diversity and vision. formally called youth at art, they celebrate the work of student all over san francisco and it is celebration especial
our city college. thanksgivings to supervisor kim whos district highly impacted civic center and [inaudible] campus closeier occurred and also supervisor campus who advocate #d for city college. i think a number of you know that san franciscos school districts arts festville is this week. i believe young artist make san francisco fun vibrent and a great place to live and the art festville is a city wide demonstration of creative diversity and vision. formally called youth at art, they celebrate...
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the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit adjourned. >> it is been an honor to work with mayor ed lee over the couple of years both as supervisor and now as president of the board i want to emphasize two areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites and also secured 2 pointed $5 million to refusal over one hundred and 60 public unit housing for families just recently we launched a rental assistance demonstrates and with concert julian to transform san francisco's publicity u public housing the rad fireman is significant and will allow san francisco is leverage $800 million in investment eligibility and $5200 million from our city to rehabilitate over 4 thousand 5 hundred units of public housing unit for over 5 thousand 4 hundred residents this will be one of the biggest public housing improvements in our country i can tell you from experience the r
the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit adjourned. >> it is been an honor to work with mayor ed lee over the couple of years both as supervisor and now as president of the board i want to emphasize two areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites...
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we can't even afford to stay in this city let alone working as a city of san francisco. they weren't talking about people like me to benefit from this hiring. if you drag this down, you have some big big challenges. but let's not go into that. let's talk about how we can change that around. i have a solution to all of this pollution. let's look at local hiring again. i need to take out some of these people like city build, oewb, these got together because they came and filed a lawsuit. there is plenty of jobs in the western edition. we are surrounding by buildings. it's too late now, most of them are built. we still got them but there was nobody monitoring. i have to go there. i don't get paid. what they tell me, go see city build. i go there and find out city build is revamping their leadership. i found out ms. simmons and autumn of those people, they are gone. we need to bring it back to the community. you have all of these agencies. the only thing missing is the community. we'll talk about that later. >> thank you, do you have a speaker card? that's okay. state your n
we can't even afford to stay in this city let alone working as a city of san francisco. they weren't talking about people like me to benefit from this hiring. if you drag this down, you have some big big challenges. but let's not go into that. let's talk about how we can change that around. i have a solution to all of this pollution. let's look at local hiring again. i need to take out some of these people like city build, oewb, these got together because they came and filed a lawsuit. there is...
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our office reported last year that sugary drinks cost us as a city fifty million as a city $50 million and the city governments 26 $26 million a year so there's a negative compact by the over consumption of sugary beverages and we're continuing this fight against big soda in 2015 with our coalition with legislation that we think will make our communities healthier and better informed informed. the legislation i'm introducing will prohibit the use of city funds from city departments and contractors from purchasing sugary drinks it doesn't ban vendors or private parties from bringing them but it limits the city and departments and contractors that do business with the city to consume sugary beverages we can't in good faith know the terrible harm these drinks cause and then allow them to be handed out in children's programs or encourage employees to drink them and to provide the department of public health and our staff more information about the sale of these harmful products. lastly i'm introducing a resolution to formally endorse senator bill madding's bill as we voted about a year ago
our office reported last year that sugary drinks cost us as a city fifty million as a city $50 million and the city governments 26 $26 million a year so there's a negative compact by the over consumption of sugary beverages and we're continuing this fight against big soda in 2015 with our coalition with legislation that we think will make our communities healthier and better informed informed. the legislation i'm introducing will prohibit the use of city funds from city departments and...
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cities to join in the campaign. we'll be in new york next week for the status of women meetings and you will hear more about this campaign in the lead up to the u.s. conference of mayor's conference that's going to be held in june that mayor lee is hosting. yesterday they honored 4 truly amazing women. you will hear more about these women at a reception immediately following the board of supervisor's presentation so after this ceremony we invite everyone to the reception at at the mayor's conference room where the district attorney will recognize his honoree wendy still who will be retiring in just a few weeks. now i'll return the proceedings back to president breed so you can introduce your honor ees. ees. >> thank you very much. if there are any other members here that can not find a seat there's an over flow room. i'd like to make sure you stay within the chambers so you are in close proximity of the board so at this time i will let the members of the board of the board know that we're going to be going in revers
cities to join in the campaign. we'll be in new york next week for the status of women meetings and you will hear more about this campaign in the lead up to the u.s. conference of mayor's conference that's going to be held in june that mayor lee is hosting. yesterday they honored 4 truly amazing women. you will hear more about these women at a reception immediately following the board of supervisor's presentation so after this ceremony we invite everyone to the reception at at the mayor's...
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it's worked for cities. as we go around the country what we are seeing, not just governments, but private, civic, union, community, philanthropy stepping up and doing some really hard work. louisville, lexington they are making manufacturing innovation a priority. charlotte and chicago, they are changing their community colleges to equip workers with the actual technical skills they need. you can go to denver and l.a., they are using local resources to build out state-of-the-art transit. then you can go to the heart of detroit and to the heart of buffalo and you'll see the cities coming back from the core. it's still a very small landmass, but when you put that innovative economy on steroids one innovative j.b. equals five other jobs. it can expand out into the neighborhoods if we are smart about skills and education. there's not a recipe about there. it's about collaboration. it's about public-private at its core. it will fundamentally, i think and we can come back to this change what the national governmen
it's worked for cities. as we go around the country what we are seeing, not just governments, but private, civic, union, community, philanthropy stepping up and doing some really hard work. louisville, lexington they are making manufacturing innovation a priority. charlotte and chicago, they are changing their community colleges to equip workers with the actual technical skills they need. you can go to denver and l.a., they are using local resources to build out state-of-the-art transit. then...
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as a combined sewer system we actually capture 94% of the rain that hit it is the city -- hits the city and treat it and discharge. in that regard we're ahead of many cities in the united states and don't collect the storm water and therefore making a positive environmental change. if you look at this area it's a large watershed, one of the largest that we have and water actual collects all the way far northeast north of the panhandle and naturally flows down in the southeast direction down to 17th and folsom so it's a large collection area that is the natural topography of the city. also part of this as the supervisor said it's a natural low point in the city and was naf gattible waterways at one point and in this map you could get on a boat and go to oakland from 17th and folsom. that is a challenge for us because of the natural topography that exists. now we did fill out -- in fact most people don't know first street in downtown called first street because it was the first street. we filled the bay out to steward street and used to be east street and the second shoreline and filled a
as a combined sewer system we actually capture 94% of the rain that hit it is the city -- hits the city and treat it and discharge. in that regard we're ahead of many cities in the united states and don't collect the storm water and therefore making a positive environmental change. if you look at this area it's a large watershed, one of the largest that we have and water actual collects all the way far northeast north of the panhandle and naturally flows down in the southeast direction down to...
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payment assistance and range of things you supervisors are familiar with are critical in insuring the city's economy remains competitive we want to make sure the recipe have pathways to job mobility and job investment being able to have a job as the mayor likes to say one of the key things to the have and have nots and to make sure that people under bloid or wish they made more money to have greater job opportunities as well we need to streamline the business permitting process this committee has been incredibly supportive of the business protocol we are doing that now continuing the streamline that for our small businesses as ted mention the rising reilly's costs in addition to the lack of space in the city we need to continue to retain the businesses to work and grow in san francisco with our pdr methods and the transportation businesses our targeting around the nonprofit sector and our effort to support sort the small businesses through the small business commission we need to accommodate new jobs and businesses particularly over the long term in the central selma and waterfront we need t
payment assistance and range of things you supervisors are familiar with are critical in insuring the city's economy remains competitive we want to make sure the recipe have pathways to job mobility and job investment being able to have a job as the mayor likes to say one of the key things to the have and have nots and to make sure that people under bloid or wish they made more money to have greater job opportunities as well we need to streamline the business permitting process this committee...
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at this time city leadership is aligned to put children and families first through the mayors cities address the san francisco unified school districts plan exists in collaborations around my bruthders keeper and efforts to pass prop c we have seen that the city makes it clear the children and families are a proret and want to take a action to improve the families in san francisco. [inaudible] people of all ages income and races. when we lose families we lose diversity. while diversity is a value to strive for and of it in itself the loss of diversity threatens the following areas, middle income jobs and workers, environment and sus stainability, social integration, social capital and citizen engagement. our children families counsel will need to be bold and create a common sfrigz the children and families. we must set goal squz metrix that allow all our city and school district department and communities to contribute towards them. further more we maintain san francisco can only be a great city if we wetain the economic and cullturable diversity therefore our city families counsel m
at this time city leadership is aligned to put children and families first through the mayors cities address the san francisco unified school districts plan exists in collaborations around my bruthders keeper and efforts to pass prop c we have seen that the city makes it clear the children and families are a proret and want to take a action to improve the families in san francisco. [inaudible] people of all ages income and races. when we lose families we lose diversity. while diversity is a...
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staff it is the whole city that works on this (laughter) federal reserve the mayor's office the city administrators offers and naomi kelly is critical in the task force and the departments of all sort of lined up behind the mayors directive assist the housing authority i know tom from dbi and planning and dpw and the human resources we're all working targeted a common goal this is again, the whole notion that the housing authority are no longer a island in san francisco i want to thank the enterprise list and the other people we're working with the developers and the cohorts and thank our housing developers we're uniquely blessed in san francisco to have 5 eco system they've step up to the plate and it is continuing to be difficult they'll do it t and last but not least i want to thank my staff who have been working on this lydia and others who have been leading the charge (clapping.) again, thank you all we will all do this together and hopefully, all see each other in he 12 months for the groundbreaking for the first one or the completion of the late last - at this point we'll on t
staff it is the whole city that works on this (laughter) federal reserve the mayor's office the city administrators offers and naomi kelly is critical in the task force and the departments of all sort of lined up behind the mayors directive assist the housing authority i know tom from dbi and planning and dpw and the human resources we're all working targeted a common goal this is again, the whole notion that the housing authority are no longer a island in san francisco i want to thank the...
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we don't have that charge before you from the city. we've had savings in insurance costs and we're allowing for a small increase in our it costs. that maybe related to refreshing our server and possibly using -- we're still negotiating with the city over we will virtualize our servers with the city or do the work ourselves and we are trying to build in sufficient to maintain the it infrastructure. turning to debt service there's 37 million total of which 25 million is a property tax which i mentioned before. it includes the full years debt service on the new refunding bonds and there's also the non property tax items as we still have the hotel tax bond that is money passed through from the city and we also have south beach harbor bond that we are getting funds from revenues. we are also include r including in here allowance for this if we can sell bonds on mission bay and we built that into the rops authority and we are building a team for that and bonds and new issuances there. you will see that soon coming before you. yes, as i menti
we don't have that charge before you from the city. we've had savings in insurance costs and we're allowing for a small increase in our it costs. that maybe related to refreshing our server and possibly using -- we're still negotiating with the city over we will virtualize our servers with the city or do the work ourselves and we are trying to build in sufficient to maintain the it infrastructure. turning to debt service there's 37 million total of which 25 million is a property tax which i...
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. >> and now i want to present on behalf of the city of san francisco a special city insignificant ma heart i hope you'll receive it with the feeling we're in deep appreciation of the work and commitment to the city and for the audience i'd like to just say shop locally because do as much locally has possible you know be know someone that is online a barky could be the hero in the city thank you, everyone for being here i'm going to ask the supervisors to help me do the pinning and if the chief could help i want to make sure i acknowledge the san francisco fire commission i know you're helping just making sure that we do all the right things in the city continually goorndz thank you very much on behalf of the city of san francisco adjourned. >> it is been an honor to work with mayor ed lee over the couple of years both as supervisor and now as president of the board i want to emphasize two areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites
. >> and now i want to present on behalf of the city of san francisco a special city insignificant ma heart i hope you'll receive it with the feeling we're in deep appreciation of the work and commitment to the city and for the audience i'd like to just say shop locally because do as much locally has possible you know be know someone that is online a barky could be the hero in the city thank you, everyone for being here i'm going to ask the supervisors to help me do the pinning and if the...
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no on the eir but previous housing elements the city is relying an, an addendum to the eir and the city can rely on the eir the memorandum even though their pending legislation. >> so we're able to vote. >> yes. you, you are. >> next i'm here representing spur thank you for the opportunity to comment we commend the planning staff for the work on the element and support the the adaptation of the draft to allow the mayors initiatives to get implemented nevertheless, the time set back our city is troishg jobs and brangz resources but putting pursue on your housing stock the city needs to produce between 4 and 5 thousand unit and more for the existing deficit it is inlikely and reduce the neighborhood planning in maishgd and on that are producing the visit majority on one plan in process we want the planning department to start planning to expand the long term housing in the city the second to making sure make it easy for neighbors to have the existing units this is one of the ways to audio homes supervisor wiener is doing an excellent job we think we should continue to grow the effort and
no on the eir but previous housing elements the city is relying an, an addendum to the eir and the city can rely on the eir the memorandum even though their pending legislation. >> so we're able to vote. >> yes. you, you are. >> next i'm here representing spur thank you for the opportunity to comment we commend the planning staff for the work on the element and support the the adaptation of the draft to allow the mayors initiatives to get implemented nevertheless, the time set...
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as todd told we were asked to assist with this strategy update by focusing on an analyzed of how the city's economic and supervisor farrell you said the recent years the performance is strong across the board we over took a different time period 2004 to 2010 the reason we picked those points they were economic low points in the business cycle one of the reasons our economic economy is strong we have about in the recovery so if you compare where we were 5 years ago some of the growth because of the business cycle and maybe in a different economic cycle and difficult to separate those we want to see how the growth to the same period this is one of the long term economic development and this give us the long term prospective over quite a long period to look at data an economic performance in san francisco in the late 60s to 2009 san francisco's employment didn't change in fact the peak in terms of the employment was above the peak in 2008 nearly thirty years later it's been a different story but for many years the san francisco overall employment level was understated phone call focusing on th
as todd told we were asked to assist with this strategy update by focusing on an analyzed of how the city's economic and supervisor farrell you said the recent years the performance is strong across the board we over took a different time period 2004 to 2010 the reason we picked those points they were economic low points in the business cycle one of the reasons our economic economy is strong we have about in the recovery so if you compare where we were 5 years ago some of the growth because of...
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city government. i'm here to talk about wiping off ferguson city government might be better for the people living there. >>> san some aren't buying the top kremlin critic, you don't want to point the finger at vladimir putin. the cold war with russia i'll show you the spy ship moscow might be using to spy around havana harbor. i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." >> why you guys stopping him what did he do? >> these two officers took a very hard hit. >> that officer has just as much of a right to go home to his family as anyone else. >> ferguson is coming undone the st. louis suburb with just 21,000 residents has seen its city manager local judge and police chief resign in just the last week. the court clerk has been fired. so far the mayor says he intends to stay in office, while elections for a new city council will take place on april 7th. but the question is being asked: should the city of ferguson simply dissolve? that's because racial bias outlined in the department of justice report focused
city government. i'm here to talk about wiping off ferguson city government might be better for the people living there. >>> san some aren't buying the top kremlin critic, you don't want to point the finger at vladimir putin. the cold war with russia i'll show you the spy ship moscow might be using to spy around havana harbor. i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." >> why you guys stopping him what did he do? >> these two officers took a very hard hit. >>...
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of money this shouldn't be a big thing this is what is fair it put in line with other workers in the city and simply keeps you want to mp i >> thank you . next speaker. >> >> good morning. i'm doggie diner doug styles the director of the hocking beggar program when the committee improved we don't see any increased revenue we don't sell properties we work with people at huckleberry we work with families in san francisco it is only coming to our contractor with the we have to ask for increases we can keep with some of the expends we have i'm going to throw a couple of numbers all right. in the last year through our improvements increased by 7.4 percent our benefits over the last 5 years have increased annually 15 percent we have a had percent increase in the afternoon for our staff 1.5 percent didn't add up and adding 7.5 is a step towards that we need a loefrment fix so we don't have to come forward here everyday pass this onto the full board and talk about long term strategies for the challenge. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm nancy deputy director of the social service
of money this shouldn't be a big thing this is what is fair it put in line with other workers in the city and simply keeps you want to mp i >> thank you . next speaker. >> >> good morning. i'm doggie diner doug styles the director of the hocking beggar program when the committee improved we don't see any increased revenue we don't sell properties we work with people at huckleberry we work with families in san francisco it is only coming to our contractor with the we have to...
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we are a large city. where a growing city as well. economical were still trying to claw our way out of of the downturn but we got a lot of things going for. we have a large boeing facility in these they are quick announcement of a new $2 billion apple facility so we are right in writing a good wave of economic development. but at the same time we have i grew up in mesa in the downtown area that my child is was part of the old route 66 and so we had modell's edit very vibrant, interesting downtown in mesa back in the '60s and the early 70s. of course with the advent of freeways being billed to the north and south of us are downtown just kind of wizard up and died and went to large big box malls but i think i see a lot of smiling faces. people recognize this new that has been duplicated all over the country so we're kind of a poster child for that whole, you become with a great downtown. we build malls and freeways downtown would up and die. i was on the city council back in the '90s and we would find every possible way to try to pump s
we are a large city. where a growing city as well. economical were still trying to claw our way out of of the downturn but we got a lot of things going for. we have a large boeing facility in these they are quick announcement of a new $2 billion apple facility so we are right in writing a good wave of economic development. but at the same time we have i grew up in mesa in the downtown area that my child is was part of the old route 66 and so we had modell's edit very vibrant, interesting...
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and because of this great city, because of the diversity of our city, you are the reason why i sit in san francisco superior court and it is my goal to not only keep our legal system but our city as great and as diverse and welcoming and all-inclusive. if there's one thing i can leave with, it's not so much that i want to be remembered for any of the accomplishments in my drear, career, i want to be remembered if i can paraphrase something from dr. king. what difference can i make for those who are beside me and those who come behind me, i want to make a ch an g e. so thank you very much. [applause] professor: thank you. congratulations judge jackson. [applause] >> okay. next up is supervisor farrell. >> thank you president breed. colleagues, so today, i have a real honor to recognize and introduce someone who has been a great pillar in our city of san francisco for quite a while and i'm very proud to call a district two member and that is pamela joiner. pamela, come on up. so just a little bit of background on pamela. pamela is born is chicago. she has been a 20-year resident to our
and because of this great city, because of the diversity of our city, you are the reason why i sit in san francisco superior court and it is my goal to not only keep our legal system but our city as great and as diverse and welcoming and all-inclusive. if there's one thing i can leave with, it's not so much that i want to be remembered for any of the accomplishments in my drear, career, i want to be remembered if i can paraphrase something from dr. king. what difference can i make for those who...
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it's a good point, how the teams use other cities against one possible. >> using other cities as liver rim, it makes sense. is there a dimension of this because of the car tell power mentioned, that small cities game. >> yes. >> than big markets.in. >> san antonio is one of the smaller markets. they are the only game in town. they do it smartly. it works there. i used to work in memphis tennessee at the time when the grizzlies moved to memphis. there was a lot of talk about how the city funded the team. that's what they demanded. fed ex is headquartered. there has been a lot of pressure on city officials to make it a better place for employees. the employees said we kept losing our employees, because there's nothing from a social standpoint. they felt pressure from fed ex to spin the money, giving the team a place to play, because of what it means to businesses and industries >>> is that 40 nights a week or year? >> yes. what is crazy that the average family doesn't understand, it's publicly funded stadiums and arenas, the private teams run them. so in addition to the 41 home base, the
it's a good point, how the teams use other cities against one possible. >> using other cities as liver rim, it makes sense. is there a dimension of this because of the car tell power mentioned, that small cities game. >> yes. >> than big markets.in. >> san antonio is one of the smaller markets. they are the only game in town. they do it smartly. it works there. i used to work in memphis tennessee at the time when the grizzlies moved to memphis. there was a lot of talk...
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>> we do use the city attorney for several items now. debra works closely with the city attorney on the imminent domain litigation. we work with them on various matters. of course we used to work with them almost exclusively on the construction side before we lost staff to the airport but we will continue to reach out to them and as long as they have the resources we are happy to use the city attorney. staff is also very conscious of using legal time. just last week i tried my hand at writing an affidavit for a records request and baby -- and debra complemented me before she made the necessary corrections. >> i noticed again looking at their foundational documents that our legal counsel is the san francisco city attorney dennis herrera and it struck me that was an odd position given that as far as i could tell wasn't acting like a legal counsel so i had a couple of meetings with them and including mr. herrera on tuesday and he agrees that's a position that is untenuous for his office. he has no problem being the legal counsel but he unde
>> we do use the city attorney for several items now. debra works closely with the city attorney on the imminent domain litigation. we work with them on various matters. of course we used to work with them almost exclusively on the construction side before we lost staff to the airport but we will continue to reach out to them and as long as they have the resources we are happy to use the city attorney. staff is also very conscious of using legal time. just last week i tried my hand at...
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what it is the city has to enclosures the policy this is the way the city enforces the policies safe our rent control stock people before profits i hope you'll send this to the full board with a favorable recommendation thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. amy, torrey, daren and ann carol. >> hi, i'm tony one of the tenants others 1049 lived there 18 years now thank you for the interim controls i feel like all the tenants are battled tenant over the last 3 years i think today, we have a way of sending a clear message to building owners that greed is not a lawful reason to evict someone i want to thank you guys for preserving affordable housing in the city i think it's important to put these interim controls to do so and send a message that this is not the way to get rid of people harry's tenant is not the way to get rid of people and that is pretty much it i want to also see my neighbors i want to be able to have my neighbors next to me and know they're not being talented with in their homes i think that is horrible so thank you and i'd like to see the interim controls put back in.
what it is the city has to enclosures the policy this is the way the city enforces the policies safe our rent control stock people before profits i hope you'll send this to the full board with a favorable recommendation thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. amy, torrey, daren and ann carol. >> hi, i'm tony one of the tenants others 1049 lived there 18 years now thank you for the interim controls i feel like all the tenants are battled tenant over the last 3 years i think today, we...
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that's what citi has done. now granted, they have learned some very hard lessons during the financial crisis that brought them to their knees and as a result of that that unit is managed much more conservatively than it was back then. >> what other banks do you like in this sector? you know a number of them did very well. 28 out of 31 passed. would you buy any of the others? >> yes. we see there are a number of banks that would be returning enormous amounts of capital over the next few years. pnc financial is one of these banks well managed out of pittsburgh pennsylvania positioned in the southeast now to grow even faster and they also had a big win today. key corp. out of cleveland ohio another well managed bank. they've done a great job in managing their capital and these are regional banks that people can buy as well as j.p. morgan. we think j.p. morgan is another investment people can own. >> yes or no will rising interest rates help these banks? >> near term absolutely yes. you want to own the banks going
that's what citi has done. now granted, they have learned some very hard lessons during the financial crisis that brought them to their knees and as a result of that that unit is managed much more conservatively than it was back then. >> what other banks do you like in this sector? you know a number of them did very well. 28 out of 31 passed. would you buy any of the others? >> yes. we see there are a number of banks that would be returning enormous amounts of capital over the next...
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for their success we want their talent to come out and to be supportive and to be initiative in our city and because of all the national and local xhfktsdz regarding everything from police brutal so discriminates clearly that was the topic of the day we asked our students to comment on that they told us not only did they feel that there was tension but they also felt that we need more public safety officers and police officers that look like them and recognize who they are and can work in the community with youth as they grew up and know them by hair first names and understand where they are and hang out with them so they can utility that all custodies don't have a background that will be challenging to public safety issues and so we began conversations about something that hadn't had an opportunity in our city for over 10 years a cat detective program that recruits kids after high school that prepares them for possible candidacy in the polygamists academy i know my staff never wants me to announce something that's not pesticide but we'll have a police officer indicate detective program
for their success we want their talent to come out and to be supportive and to be initiative in our city and because of all the national and local xhfktsdz regarding everything from police brutal so discriminates clearly that was the topic of the day we asked our students to comment on that they told us not only did they feel that there was tension but they also felt that we need more public safety officers and police officers that look like them and recognize who they are and can work in the...
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that knows how so welcome back the city that knows how thank you (clapping.) oh yeah. and (clapping.) that was relationship roar i like that okay. i hope i can get through to next part without crying about 5 months ago i have a violation to light the affair ferry building of the iconic lights the rows had been in my mind and my grandparents feel in love and skroeltd down market street and saw the light it was in my mind i want to thank the first people i approached who embraced that laura address my fin say john he made the great bajdz i hope you're getting so be sure you get one and my long time it friend charlotte and, of course, every enthusiastic said this was a fantastic idea willie brown there he is willie brown yeah. willie willie brown who will be on stage with charlotte shortly and, of course they all shared my incision said it was - make it happen donna go for it i met wonderful new friends renee martin yeah. from did port and jane and phillip and bobby from bay crossing and others i said, "yes yes. yes. we wanted to do that the media has been great
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. >> and we had an opportunity to have a really good conversation as we were coming back to the city. >> thank you. >> on public transportation, and it was really refreshing to see your commissioner, and your mta commissioners on the public transportation and i can appreciate, i think, your father, you have children? >> well i am raising my niece. >> okay, and you had a child and discussions about challenges of families particularly those that represent in the southeastern part of the city, and the station and the valley neighborhood and the southern parts of bay view, really, and the cities desire to the transit first and how that is almost like a catch 22. >> yeah. >> the city desires to be transit first, but yet, transit accessibility but more importantly reliability. >> it is not where it needs to be. >> and so, i, again, want to impress upon you the importance of the eliminate of the switch back and just a profound level of frustration when it comes to not understanding the purpose of the switch backs and just really feeling, like the city is sliding them because of where they li
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. >> thank you right now is the the city absorbing those increased costs for speciality drugs or the plans absorbing it. >> not city pays for it. >> and do you see at some point are we likely to see increased co-pay for city employees related to speciality drugs. >> i hope not. >> i hope not too but i don't want to put you on the spot we don't knows what the future holds. >> the issue come up with a plan design it keeps costs down of keeping costs down is by charging co-pays and the federal government is got a cadillac tax in 2018 as the cost of pharmaceuticals go up we need to stay below the excise tax so we can increase co-pays if we needed to do that it wouldn't it would be co-pays on doctor visits or lab work but that's the only out let that the federal government allows on the costs pga them on those to the actual beneficiary so there's a train at the end of the tunnel. >> remind me when does our contract come up with blue shield and kaiser. >> we're norwalk the renewables right now are blue shield and kaiser we're not anticipating a plan change for 2016. >> thank you. >> thank
. >> thank you right now is the the city absorbing those increased costs for speciality drugs or the plans absorbing it. >> not city pays for it. >> and do you see at some point are we likely to see increased co-pay for city employees related to speciality drugs. >> i hope not. >> i hope not too but i don't want to put you on the spot we don't knows what the future holds. >> the issue come up with a plan design it keeps costs down of keeping costs down is by...
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units of rental housing allows the project sponsor for exchange to enter into an agreement with the city all the units they be rentals for a period of thirty years for a reduction in impact fees we have kate connor to present on those 3 items kate would you like to present thank you very much good afternoon. >> good afternoon kate connor planning department staff you have a agreement with the agreement between the property owners and the city to restrict the new dwelling units for thirty years this agreement is prudent for planning code section and those are for the projects on 2151-third street and tennessee street this is for structures on 3 lots and 6 story building with 74 off-street parking and 93 bilk parking spaces that has 22 one bedroom units and 35 two bedroom unit all were proposed unanimously on january the 51201 tennessee street is an don't guess of an office story building and construction of a 6 story floor building and 2 hundred and 5 did bilk spaces this this has a mix existing of 6 bedroom units and one hundred and 5 two bedroom unit unit and 99 studio units all of the
units of rental housing allows the project sponsor for exchange to enter into an agreement with the city all the units they be rentals for a period of thirty years for a reduction in impact fees we have kate connor to present on those 3 items kate would you like to present thank you very much good afternoon. >> good afternoon kate connor planning department staff you have a agreement with the agreement between the property owners and the city to restrict the new dwelling units for thirty...
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we looked up a local paper central city extra and when we looked it up as a title, we found central city extra and we also found pregnancy and power, a completely unrelated title that has nothing to do with our search. we also were completely unable to find the holdings in paper that are in the history room, biblial common hid that completely from view >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. in order to enforce double parking, of private and delivery vehicles in san francisco, supervisors first have to clean up inside before going outside. starting at 850 barns street, san francisco is the only city in california that can't find parking for police vehicles besides double parking. blocking a 1 way lane on a main street with no sirens or lights to warn oncoming traffic is a danger and hazard. supervisors, we need laws to strengthen rather than weaken. there should be a moratorium or an issuing ticket for double parking vehicles. the supervisors have the obligation to look at the totality of the safety violation and the whole totality are presented: thank you. >>
we looked up a local paper central city extra and when we looked it up as a title, we found central city extra and we also found pregnancy and power, a completely unrelated title that has nothing to do with our search. we also were completely unable to find the holdings in paper that are in the history room, biblial common hid that completely from view >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. in order to enforce double parking, of private and delivery...
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i ended up after talking to the city and the neighbors it seems like the city was not going to do anything soon so i embarked moving all my tenant it is out and raised the slab for flooding and put flood gates in and pump system to protect my own building but the streets still floods. something needs to happen and i propose that perhaps we could get a committee together from some of the stakeholders, the business owners of the neighborhood, building owners and something from the puc and have a small committee to brainstorm ideas and ideas from us and hear from them and we could perhaps that to somebody who can say yes and we can do these things because all we hear is no right now. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. i also want to call david hooper and anyone else that would like to speak come up. >> helloiff i am thomas [inaudible] and malcolm davis who is going to speak later i would like to live some of my time to him. we were told it was fixed in 2005 with the pump systems. we had five floods. i can't calculate how this affected my business but it will be affected all of this
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is city that knows how, but if they are here in city hall and i could tell it all it is the most corrupt-it is am most racist bias city undercurve in the united states. we say wree the sate that knows how, but i have [inaudible] >> thank you mr. washington, next speaker, please >> tom [inaudible] 1950 there was a polio epidemic. a vaccine was inside me. i have-they found some of the vaccines were contaminated and tried to figure researching how those could be fixed. can i have the overhead in a focus, please? hello, can we focus? [inaudible] again last time this is a story of investigation into the contamination of the polio vaccine and in the late 50's and that lets up-that stopped the [inaudible] if you can pick it up, it is good read and that picks up lee and me, the book of some gal that mote lee harvey ozwauld during the polio vaccine research. he dervs a witness. i saw him die on tv same as a saw the plane fly into the second tower in new york on tv. after 50 wreers if someone wants to give lee harvey oswauld a witness he deserves it out. i would like give a shout out for christina [i
is city that knows how, but if they are here in city hall and i could tell it all it is the most corrupt-it is am most racist bias city undercurve in the united states. we say wree the sate that knows how, but i have [inaudible] >> thank you mr. washington, next speaker, please >> tom [inaudible] 1950 there was a polio epidemic. a vaccine was inside me. i have-they found some of the vaccines were contaminated and tried to figure researching how those could be fixed. can i have the...