they do not represent san francisco. san francisco wants better and more choices on high-speed internet access. vote yes for at&t to invest in san francisco and vote yes to improve the quality of our lives, and by the way, ugly san francisco is not caused by the cabinet, it's caused by social problems. we need to address the social problems. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, my name is susan finnegan. i live in parkerside -- parkside and i suspect i'm representative of a lot of people in san francisco. i'm a single parent, renter, single income, and even with a good job, i still live paycheck to paycheck. one of the gentlemen earlier mentioned that internet and cable is a necessity these days. and it truly is, especially if you're raising children, especially if you're a giants fan. that's a necessity. and if you can't even see a home game, you know, without having cable, i think that says something. i would love for comcast to have some competition. perhaps to make pricing, packaging o

we need to do a lot in san francisco to encourage young people and young families to stay in san francisco. i think we are missing out on a lot of our diversity when young families leave our city. we need to do all we can to be mindful of the needs of young families in the city. we mentioned housing. schools are a big deal. but also being able to be flexible with transportation and children. >> what is happening with crime in your district? give me your thoughts on how you think the police are doing with respect to crime in your district? >> i think we are very fortunate in district two. we have a number of great police captains that oversee the stations that touched district two. richmond and northern are the two major police stations that touched the district. we do have a lot of crime in district 2. both crimes against individuals but also against merchants along our merchant corridors. chestnut. union in particular has been hit. fillmore and sacramento. it is a big deal. we also have the break-ins. we need to be very mindful that people keep their iphones and laptops out of sight. but

so well done san francisco. you are leading one against by utilizing innovation and i'm sure big cities across the nation will learn from your example from the pilot you're launching here today and emulate the kind of creativity and innovation that you're utilizing to address what is to say the least a very common flob big cities across the country. thank you for your leadership, your application and innovation and your partnership with u.s. d.o.t. and the federal highway administration. [applause] >> thank you, mr. deputy director. it is now my pleasure to introduce the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, david chew, who has been a strong supporter of parking reform in the city and look at it as a means of encouraging economic growth for local communities and merchants. of course, of course, is a major element of the s.f. park program and most appropriate at this time when it appears the local economy is finally rebounding of the great recession the past few years. president chu? >> thank you,

neighborhood papers in san francisco. there have been so many as one of the great things about the city. what the plan to do going forward that has not been done? >> the way it is announced is it goes on the internet, it goes to our historical bid list which gets larger from year to year. i became aware that there is an association of san francisco newspapers, and they will be on the bid list next year. that is what we have done up until now and next year, we will be better. president chiu: these ad prices seem to be all over the map. do they reflect the different ad prices -- to reflect circulation sizes or is there a way for us to treat all of these community- based papers equally? >> i do not have handy and correlation of the bid price with circulation. i could put something like that together but i do not have it with me. president chiu: i don't know of that makes a difference to you, we have one paper that has at prices almost three times the size of others. i'm trying to think about the fairest way to sway distribut

it is costly and difficult to do business in san francisco, to raise your children in san francisco. i would like a voice at the table to create policies that will minimize the stigma that san francisco is not a business- friendly city, minimize the stigma of that san francisco prioritizes the rights of dogs over children. we started walking down that path largely because of political ideology. it is less about politics. i want to have a positive impact on the city overall, specifically district 10, connecting it to the city. people have been left to defend for themselves. i am honored to have been elected to serve to be the next advocate for the next four years, hopefully the next eight years, to really protect, defense, and serve the residents of district 10. >> we will talk more about some of the issues facing district 10. before we do, i would like to know a little bit about what you learned campaigning for supervisor. talk to me a little about that experience. >> first, i learned that a lot of the conversations we have about our neighborhood and community happens in silos. we ha

san francisco is not a theme park. it needs to keep up with the times if we continue to be a viable place to work. i conclude by asking you to lock around this chamber. it is full of modern infrastructure and technology. it might offend the aesthettic sensibilities of some but i don't think anyone would argue that it doesn't provide a net benefit to those who work here and to the citizens of san francisco. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is tony harris, i'm a resident of noy valley and proud san franciscan and this is the first time i've been here so please indulge me. i'm not normally part of a group that testifies but i felt moved by this issue because there were four things i thought about that got past the typical political arguments. competition is important but with competition, also, is the digital divide and making sure we bring everybody in the city up to the technology. many things now and almost everything that's being developed new in the future is going to require that kind of access, and we

is san francisco and s.p.a. in support of cdfi's being established in san francisco? >> yes, we are. we were founded in 1999 with a small business loan. that is how we started our tenderloin office. >> opportunity fund is a certified cdfi, so we are providing a benefit to low and moderate-income communities. he is the city establishing support for new cdfi's? >> mark wanted to address that, in support of cdfi's in the city. >> we have a wealth of partners in the city. s.p.a. is just now rolling out a program for r -- will be the case by the summer. let me get one last point and on the question about relationships to lenders. the question was, do have to have an account with a bank in order to get a loan? may answer is no, but the real answer to it is certainly want to do that. one of the things we see as an important thing for you, as a small-business person to establish a relationship with a lender on a variety of levels before you look for funding. part of that is opening an account with them, letting a lender know about your business, understand your business, talk

like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to

pay over the past 13 years without leaving san francisco. according to the controller's office, mr. egan, who's here, can have the policy advantage of providing a tangible benefit to a few successful companies, reducing their incentive to leave san francisco, while leaving the majority of taxpayers and the city's payroll tax revenue unaffected. mr. egan has estimated that the effect on the city's general fund, with this limited stock option exclusion, would be minimal in annual tax revenue and that the loss would be more than recaptured by making sure that companies are retained and sustained in san francisco. so that we are then in the proactive business of making sure their companies are nurtured and that our employee base grows, and from that employee base, because we're not going after payroll tax and just stock option, that we be able to benefit from their contribution into the employment base increasing into either payroll tax or whatever the new business tax that would supplant that in the future. that is the legislation that is befor

board of san francisco is absolutely of interest to us. -- port of san francisco is absolutely of interest to us. pier 96 is not. the reason is when we got the permission to use pier 96 for the purpose of recycling our traditional recyclables -- paper, bottles, cans -- we committed to the citizens of the bayview that this was going to be recycling only. we told them, we committed that we would not bring garbage into the bayview district. that was important to them an important to us. our facility, pier 96 sits right below the hunters point housing project. while we did not have to do it, we committed and have been voluntarily for the last -- i guess it has been eight or nine years now that pier 96 has been there and processing the city's recyclables -- we voluntarily offered, long before anybody was talking about local hire ordinances in the city -- we voluntarily offered all new jobs to people who live in two zip codes that are impacted in the bayview, and we have hired somewhere around 175 people who come from that zip code -- those two zip codes to work for us. what we heard a week or t

communities across san francisco have benefited. it seems the service could be arbitrary depending on what the issue is and what service is being renewed or increased. that has some benefits. it would be great to have something that would be more global in how the new services are rendered to the city and what the benefits are. having clarity about that is good practice in government. >> i hear the questions of the commission and the concerns regarding documentation. our main concern is to ensure that since we have a system that works, we have a system in place that has worked for many years, and that is highlighted, we are succeeding in having the highest ever generate, that we want to ensure that even if we are looking at additional documentation for our system, that our system is not disrupted. we are working aggressively to reach zero waste by 2020, and any part we -- in the work we're doing would severely jeopardize our ability to reach that goal. that is our perspective, how we can keep having momentum to move down the path to

i want to make sure that san francisco has a working class population. i want to make sure we do not take for granted because we are seen as more cosmopolitan, that that excuses us from not tackling issues of poverty, which there are still substantial pockets of it in san francisco. just by what others may argue. that to me obligates our requirement to make sure this city, being in its reputation of being forward thinking and progressive, learn to -- learn to make sure that that translates into economics so that this isn't a city just for those who could afford it. >> what do you feel like are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> well, when i came into office in january 2005, a number of areas of our district, as you outlined in your opening statement, really confronted different neighborhoods in different ways. district five is by far one of the most interesting drawn districts of the whole city. my western border goes almost into the sunset. my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is

francisco location where we taxed that, versus a brings bane or south san francisco location where they don't tax at all, it can be a very big difference. but specifically during that period. going forward if you go back to the chart in what i'm calling stage three, immature stage, the company is still enoccurring payroll tax expenses associated with stock options but it's smaller because once the i.p.o. has happened, the company is granting stock options at the value of the publicly traded stock. and so in this case, the stock is still going up and so people are still making profit exercising those stock options but it's not nearly as much. you can think of stage two as going from, you know, your option is a dollar a share and company is trading at $60 a share and you're making $59 a share. the second stage maybe the stock has gone up from $60 to $70 and maybe you're making $10 a share. i think that's a typical experience of a successful technology company. i should also say at the outset that the number of companies that even before supervisor mirkarimi amended his legislation that wo

gets solar in san francisco. it's really a question of vision and commitment. with respect to the $1.3 million that is left, go solar has always run out of money in the past year. supervisor chu: thank you. >> do you want me to end? i was going to answer the question of supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: please finish, very briefly. >> in the past, we've had boom cycles where we've gone through the money very quickly. it did not require all installations to have certified go solar sf work force development employees and now there's a requirement of 50% of the workers. what happened at the beginning of this fiscal year is that the sf puc made a number of changes reducing the amount of the incentive, expanding the jobs from just installer to back office and required that all installations have go solar sf work force development employees on the job. what that did is it witreduced e drop of the incentive. it is a good thing. it was a benefit to the program. it has been a good start ship of the program by the san

the city and county of san francisco. again, i also want to thank congresswoman pelosi for hosting this event, and with her staff, and her leadership around all the work she has done supporting small businesses. because she comes from san francisco, and, by our definition, is small business is a business with under 100 employees. that is almost 85% of all businesses in the city. because she is from here, she really understands what small businesses are about, and she articulates your needs in washington, d.c. in may 2008, san francisco opened the office of small business, under the leadership of gavin newsom, under the urging of our small business leaders. the mayor heard there was a need for the community to have a small office to help the needs of our small businesses in san francisco, help them understand and navigate the complex structure in getting a business opened within the city and county of san francisco. initially, primarily, we were going to be about helping you understand licensing and permitting requirements

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

but right now san francisco has a problem. the problem is we have of growing industry of pre-ipo companies. what the midmarket debate was able to shed light on was it was not about one company, company,a -- but a discrete population. the questions were prompted about companies who, in our minds, the also legitimized in wanting to keep their business. ed but this is without the adverse boomerang effect. the best approach, the only approach, is to look at what is unique in san francisco and that is we're the only ones with a payroll/stock option tax. by peeling off the stock option tax on the payroll, being able to help those specific companies right now -- and there are not many. there are maybe 10. but those may be right now will allow us to really be able to corral, i think, an industry that is burgeoning, but one we may have lost before because we did not tackle the problem. let me tell you. at least from this political side of the bench, it has been a long time that people in this government have confronted business tax ref

this reflects san francisco and the best in the department. i would like to congratulate everyone. >> i was out of town, but i did read about it. thank you, chief. i would like to congratulate everybody. commissioner marshall: i set mine yesterday. commissioner kingsley: congratulations to each and everyone of you. i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. >> thank you and welcome aboard. [applause] president mazzucco: could you call line item 1? >> if i may reach before we began, i have to do this. i know we will have a great meeting tonight. i have the knowledge that the vice chair of the human rights commission is the former police commissioner, doug chan. the executive director of the human rights commission is the former president of the police commission, theresa sparks. we're going to have a great meeting. >> thank you. president mazzucco: please call item one. >> general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction

i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i wanted to serve the city and protect all that is so special about san francisco. >> what lessons did you learn after campaigning for supervisor? >> san franciscans are incredibly interested in their city government, local politics, and making sure that we remain the most amazing city in the world. i learned that san franciscans during campaign read everything they are sent in the mail. they love to meet the candidates and engage in conversations with them. i learned how important it is to build bridges between different communities, particularly communities of diversity that we have. i was incredibly honored to have been elected in november of 2008. >> where do you place yourself on the political spectrum? >> i consider myself someo

san francisco is all about history and tradition. the main thing we want to learn this from our past. we need to be prepared and pull together in an emergency. i love seeing the yellow helmets. thank you to our nert volunteers and the emergency management department. ross mirkarimi is here. thank you, jeff. it was very easy hanging the wreath. is one of our greatest mares. ed lee has always prioritized readiness in our city. thank you to bob. >> i want to get a picture with the chief. i am the new mayor of san francisco after ed. ann, come on up. say a couple of words. this is tough. it is great to see you. good morning. >> thank you. good morning. thank you for coming out. i want to thank everyone for being here. just a reminder, please be prepared. go to our website, 72hours.org. it tells you what you need to know. put togetherdebt prepared. it is going to happen again. every year, we commemorate the lives lost. i think we're in much better shape right now, but be better prepared. thank you. >> i will make sure i get a bunch of can

san francisco is a beautiful city. with a diversity of the people, diversity of its culture, diversity of its architecture. most of my friends who are immigrants and who have come, like my husband, to silicon valley in the bay area -- they do not want to be living in san francisco. i want to just remind you that the character of different neighborhoods in san francisco, the beauty of san francisco, the san francisco keeps different characters of its neighborhoods -- just to remind you, how many more people do you think would want to come and live in san francisco if it is not beautiful anymore? the question was where do we put more people. do you think that more people would want to live in such high density neighborhoods? supervisor mar: thank you. could the last couple of speakers please come forward?

business environment we've been creating over the years here in san francisco. from may point of view we need to address both. lastly, i do believe here in san francisco and in city hall are roles to create that competitive economic environment and to create that broader perspective, where companies don't -- we don't, in city hall, ask the question, well, will they really leave if we don't tax them? will they really leave if we tax them a little more? let's instead say let's create the best economic environment possible and then we'll have it where companies want to come locate here, we'll provide the jobs for san franciscans that we need and that, to me, is the way forward. thank you for hearing from me tonight and i'm happy to answer any questions whenever the time comes. president o'brien: president o'brien: thank you, supervisor farrell. i think hearing both presentations, we should hear from the controller who will clearly give an objective analysis of the impact on the figures for the city budget, et cetera. mr. egan? >> which one do you want? >> ted egan,

it's important that san francisco play this role. i believe that in the pay area we really are the center focus and public safety response is so important. if you think about a major emergency occurring, be it a natural or man-made, in san francisco, we want to make sure that we can talk to our regional partners who come in to support us. we want to make sure that we have that capability. and through this j.p.a., it sets up the governance structure so that we will be able to do that. commissioner mirkarimi: it's not a question of if but when? >> that's correct. commissioner mirkarimi: we want to prepare accordingly. >> the other thing, i'm sorry i failed to mention, is that there is also a second component of this which not just public safety users but also there will be a dedicated broadband network for the -- what they are calling underserved areas, anchor institutions like libraries, churches, schools. we'll be able to have access to the internet as well. that's the second component of this. commissioner mirkarimi: what do we expe

county of san francisco. on behalf of the city and county, on behalf of all of us, bill, we thank you for your ownership, everything you did this year. we thank you for your leadership, your stewardship, and we congratulate you with this key representing the world champion 2010 san francisco giants. [applause] you have to make it someone's day every day, so we thought we may as well make it san francisco giants day. [applause] in closing, this town is going to need another mayor soon. i just have three words. fear the beard. thank you all. thank you, san francisco giants fans. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. now a few words from a man who may be completely out of words by now, but he is the managing general partner of the giants, once again, bill neukom. >> thank you. on behalf of the entire san francisco giants organization, thank you mayor, all of the good folks that worked for and with this city of san francisco, your corp., your sponsorship of this great day to celebrate the san francisco giants as wo

like many san francisco residents, you want san francisco to be a leader in the government where everyone can thrive. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am very honored to receive this recognition during our asian american heritage celebration. i feel honored and fortunate to be able to participate in the government. i will continue to work better with our community. i'm proud to have a city hall that has

i am paying my accountant in san francisco. i am paying my attorney in san francisco. my employees are all in san francisco. pet food express, when i helped to start this campaign a year and a half ago -- i really appreciated how receptive you guys were at that time. pet food express had 34 stores at that year. do you know how many they have now? they have 42 stores. they went from 34 to 42 stores in a year and a half. do you think the recession or the economy -- these think the economy is booming, that it warrants an increase from 34 to 42? what the you think is happening? they are eating our lunch. i will give you an example. pet food express opened a mile away from my store in february of this year. i don't want to give the specific name brand, but i carry raw food. my raw food sales went down by 80% in the month of february, 80%. i cannot continue to support that as a small business. my business has been there for 11 years, you guys. i understand the legislation is proposing to have 10 blocks. that is it. 10 blocks. the some of these other small businesses will not

san francisco is ahead of the curve. in order to strengthen these industries and issues, it is important that we support balkanizing. many of these issues on affordable housing, just as importantly, we need to organize our small businesses as well. we need to support each other by creating a more vibrant local economy. create networks, share best practices, and hope that the city and port create a cohesive policy is that will support their industries. i am proud that the majority of businesses are located here in district 6. when you walk around our district on any given day, you can smell the coffee that is being produced. you can walk up howard streets and visit the sisters that produced their own stationery for weddings and birthdays and other special events. there are many immigrant owned garment manufacturing businesses. many of you carry rickshaw bags. other products are produced locally in san francisco. i am proud to honor the organization. the director is here today. she will talk a little bit more about the org

san francisco. >> our charter spells out a

francisco, so our constituents are the people of san francisco. we want to do what we can to reach out to as many kinds of populations as we can. one way we do that is by bringing in guests. that is one of the things that makes a festival exciting. not only do get to see films that you might not otherwise see, but you can meet a director

of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the other big shock is that the moderates seem to have won this round. people thought, progressives have themselves on the board. there is no reason that they will not get together and take a noted leader who is a progressive to be interim mayor, and then stayed there for another term. the great thi

a breezy 62 in south san francisco. sausalito, also 53 and 68 in san rafael. mid to upper 50s at the beaches, exception, castro valley, fremont should be around 70 degrees. 80 in brentwood with mid to upper 70s for the rest of theest bay valleys. near 50 in carmel and also monterey, kind of cool compared to the rest of monterey bay where we're around 70 degrees this afternoon. mid to upper 70s, it's going breezy at at&t park this evening. rockies are in town. first pitch, 58 only dropping down to 55. 47 in napa. mid 40s along the coast. rest of us in the upper 40s to near 50 degrees. here is a look at the sea breeze it's moving inland and strengthening as we head into the weekend. that is why we're not stopping today with the cooling but we're going to keep it going. we're going to lose two to six degrees tomorrow and another two to four degrees on sunday. monday will be about the same. tuesday, wednesday and thursday, warmer weather away from the coast. happy mother's day. happy. >> we have a little bit of delay muni delay, earlier issue an accident at masoni

the great city hall of san francisco. [applause] we have been busy this morning but it has been a pleasure all morning to greet so many people love the city. i cannot think of another 10 people who love this city. i want to thank each and everyone of you because your volunteering -- i know that word. volunteer for one of the greatest cities in the world. what you will be doing, sacrifices in time, interactions with you, with various commissioners, it will be a wonderful experience, one that many of you will continue to do, and some of you about to do for the first time. i see former supervisor bevan dufty is here. david from the department of the barnett. emily. commissioner shorter, thank you for being here. bruce, thank you for being here. tom, roberta from the mta, thank you for being here. please forgive me, i am still young. [laughter] i have so many others serving on different commissions already. thank you. we have city departments that are here. i know we have the department of the environment, film commission, co

this is very unusual for any commission in san francisco. it is great to see strong female leadership on the ports commission. we will move this forward with the recommendation to the full board and i see no objections. can you please call item no. 2? >> motion to confirm -- to the transportation administration. could mr. ramos come forward? could you spend a couple of minutes talking about your background and your interest in serving in this commission. >> thank you, members of the board of supervisors. i appreciate the time he gave me to have this opportunity to speak to you. i am happy to have been nominated to serve, and i have an intimate history with san francisco. in so strongly attached to the city. i remember coming down here as a little kid, he said, you have to check out the size, and this was true, it was about as big as my head was back then. and sometimes it would go over to market street, and my father used to enjoy the beer that they would serve on tap. this was a time in the '70s where san francisco was a place for families,

francisco to get their finance capital right here from the city and county of san francisco and lets us participate. right now the angel community where i grew up now takes the bulk of the funds. why don't we get $5 billion when the next twitter goes public? why don't we do that? are we brain dead? seriously. and the last issue is this issue of pensions that's percolating all the way along. thank you very much for your time. president o'brien: thank you. do we have any further public comment? ok. i would like to just make a couple -- sorry, commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: after you. president o'brien: ok. so clearly there's an agreement that taking away tax ordinance is a good thing, and that's obviously something that's agreed to by everybody because we're all agreeing to do something that reduces the tax being paid to do business in san francisco. and we're always complaining up here on the commission on a regular basis about the fact san francisco is one of the most expensive places to do business and how difficult it is to be an entrepreneur in san francisco and for me pe

san francisco policies apply completely. the predecessors on the police commission followed oun that. in 1994, i believe it was, the police commission asked the police department, are the gttf officers still following 8.10? promises up and down absolutely. still in effect. 2005, civil rights groups go to the special agent in charge himself at the f.b.i., ask the same question, he promised up and down, absolutely local policy only. so this arrangement was working. there is precedent for applying these policies locally. but in 2007 the f.b.i. came to the sfpd with a new standard m.o.u. and perhaps inadvertently, there was no review by the city attorney, no notice to the police commission, the sfpd signed that m.o.u. and it's a drastically different m.o.u., unfortunately. now, we didn't know about that m.o.u. because it was kept secret at the instistence of the f.b.i. for four years. and we appreciate when we met with them recently the f.b.i. took responsibility for that secrecy. week of been operating in this town for 20 years

i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was speaker of the house. she had had 16 tax cuts signed into law to help small businesses grow and thrive. as we know, during the last 15 years, small businesses account for about 2/3 of the job growth in our country, but when the bush recession hits in 2009, 2010, small businesses were hit particularly hard. small businesses are the center of her agenda. congress under her leadership gave 27 million small businesses tax cuts. two main pieces of legislation -- the small businesses jobs act in the information you have, will create a total of 500,000 jobs and create eight tax cuts. they are all described in the packet you have. also, unleashing up to $300 billion in credit for small businesses to access. there are another eight

of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. appropriate. >> the other big shock is that

we are doing this, as i said, the san francisco y, in partnership with the public -- the san francisco way, in partnership with the public and our stakeholders. the transportation plan is up on the website already. we will end -- we will wait until the end of may before we published the final document. between now and then, we will have a great amount of feedback. we are leveraging resources and enthusiasms to set new standards, and we will leave a positive long-term legacy. let me reenforce the america's cup is about bringing thousands of jobs to san francisco and generating revenue for our city. we are also working on one of the hardest topics not only we are facing, not only the region is facing, but the state of california is facing. that is pension reform. i am working hard with staff, labor groups, in my budget team. one of the most pressing issues we have to deal with is to make sure our city remains solvent through the hard economic times, like the ones we are still facing, and that challenges us to make sure we are still reforming the system. i still got everybody at the table

when i graduated, i move to san francisco. my first job, i started working developing economic policies for low-income communities statewide in california. i worked with young people, parents, families are around issues that concern our neighborhoods, whether it was communities, affordable housing, public schools, or just planning issues in neighborhoods like parks. i did that and actually ran for the board of education here in san francisco. i got a term on the school board working for families in our public school system and actually worked for the lawyers community and i came to the board of supervisors. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor kim: you know, i do not know if i have a good answer for that. i just wanted to try it out. >> tell me what motivated your interest in politics. supervisor kim: that is a tough question to answer. i never had any intention to get involved in the electoral process. >> really? supervisor kim: i was always politically active. i was always working on statewide initiativ