city can be. one that our policy makers and american in dade in which you on thank you for being here at spur. [applause] >> thank you. i think we will also year from supervisors got -- supervisor scott wiener. >> this turnout's shows how significant this is to the future of the city. we were with a smaller group earlier. i will stress that san francisco is a city with a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are a cutting edge city in terms of technology, food, transportation, there are all sorts of things where we are ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people like you who are forward-thinking and want to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. the change is challenging. david and i talk about this a lot. we're trying to do things differently. we get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you are talking about cars sharing on streets, or changing zoning to create new housing to make the city more affordable and inclusive. you have those kinds of di

are for our city. it is also a spending plan. how are we going to spend our money in the coming two years? generally in san francisco, we spend about 50% of our dollars on personnel, all the people who work for the city. about 26,000 of them. and about half on everything else. we also spent about 50% in what we call our general fund and 50% in what we call enterprise fund. as many of you know, and as the supervisor mentioned, we have more than 50 city departments. everything from the mta and the puc to health and human services, police and fire. i like to think of the enterprise departments like the city's small businesses or the city's business operations. we do not mix our home expenses with our business expenses in our home budgets, and we do not do that for the city. so what do we spend our money on every year? we spend our money on our priorities, things like community health, things like social services, police and fire, rec and park, all of those things that are the core services and priorities

in our city. that is a very good starting and it is my strong intention to make sure more people find that it. 8% means there are 37,000 people still without jobs who are residents of san francisco. i will be working hard. jobs is my number one focus because jobs for youth, for people looking mitt careers, returning veterans, it would be really helpful if the city did everything it can to make sure there are jobs and all kinds of areas from tourism to the medical field to the technology field with which we are partnering up with in a lot of ways. in return, we get companies who are succeeding a little bit better. they joined me this past friday with their school district, with our city college and other institutions to create a target of 5000 summer jobs for our kids. all of you should make sure you talk to the kids aged 16-24 this summer and get into the program. we are creating 5000 jobs for our city departments to have 2500 of them to private sectors like the zynga, at&t, bank of america, wells

let me start with you, jessica. >> for us, we have chosen to launch city by city. we feel that is really important because it lets us take the time needed to build up a great community of people sharing cars. that lets us find great cars, educate the owners, educate the renters, and ensure there is the right balance and variety of cars. if you look on the site in san francisco, you will literally see cars all over the place. it is all over the bay area. you are seeing cars sharing happening in places it never had before. we worked with the city to see if there were any ways we could get out the word. we hope to work with existing programs or be added as an additional transportation solution. in general, we like to involve the city and city leaders in our announcement of coming to market, and it has been working really well. >> i know you have community managers all over the globe. what's going on there? >> airbnb goes to network effects. we are all over in -- we are already in 19 cities all over the world. we just provide the tools on line, and local residents thro

i've been working really hard with the supervisors to create an investment-friendly city, a city that welcomes job creation. jobs for everybody, not just for downtown folks. i'm not here in the neighborhoods, also, and making sure that our board and i care about the neighborhood corridors. we're out here on events like sunday street's premier out here for all kinds of different reasons, because we care about every single neighborhood in the city. we want all of you to feel the richness of the city. it is not just for downtown. it never has been. i want you to know that and what you to know we listened very carefully. we are getting better. guess what? we still got a deficit. we have a two-year budget process. we are challenging ourselves a little bit more. about $170 million deficit for 2013. having said that, the $170 million is better than what it was six months ago. as our economy has benefited from some good sales revenues, and some of the buildings are occupied, we have a better revenue stream all the time. we knocked it off almost $129 million than what it was a few years ago. i

welcome to city hall, your city hall. i wanted to make sure -- i know supervisor mirkarimi is here. supervisor jane kim is also here. they are both here because i know both have a strong commitment to our youth in san francisco. i want to welcome all of you here tonight for two reasons. one, i know we are going to give some awards out for our youth leaders, but the other reason i wanted to make sure you had a good invitation to come to city hall tonight was because we have been waiting for one of you to register, wondering if you are going to run for mayor or not. there is a vacant seat for youth to lead the city. i think you can take this job and run with it. this city needs to be more kid- friendly, more youth-oriented. i think you could have a big input to make sure that what we are doing will be there for you to raise families as well. i want to congratulate all the nominees tonight. all of you who have been participating in this competition for the fellowship have been doing great work. i have been reading through some of the accomplishments that you are a part of. i got to mee

cities have played this role. in this bidding we're having this conversation in san francisco at -- it is negative beating -- it is fitting that we're having this conversation in san francisco at spur. i think it is off somewhere one of the first cities, i think the only city, and has put together a working group around the sharing economy. we are the epicenter in san francisco. we have a role to help nurture the emerging space. there is a lot of value to be created here. i am really excited to be part of the panel seeing all of these great people next to me. >> the people on the panel are going to tell us about their companies. let's come straight down the line. >> i am a co-founder and ceo of viable, a community marketplace for travel experiences. anybody can offer their services to others as a guide, offering touristrs, sailing ships, cookig class. we have enabled terrorism -- tourism to access parts of the city it had never before accessed. restoring murals for example. we launched in 2011. we have been going

he is very familiar with the incredible work that spur does with the city, because of his work as a city administrativor,a lot of us from his vantage point of the mayor's office. i would like to recognize the department heads and elected officials. i know i've seen some of you here. thank you for coming out to support the fund workover our city employees. it is a privilege to me in particular to be here because i have had the opportunity for the last several years to be on the selection committee for the good government awards. it is really a treat. as a human-resources director, i get a lot of bad news. some of that gets in the newspaper. with all due respect to our brethren in the press, it's always a good story to write about bad behavior that may happen in a city department or that a public employee may have engaged in. we are the largest employer in san francisco. it is only natural as some of that bad behavior may fall on our doorsteps. it is refreshing to see some of the wonderful work people are doing, who really personify the ethos of san francisco. i want to celebrate that. on

i'm the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco. this last year i have had the honor of working with board of supervisor john avalos. mayor ed lee, all of the city departments who are responsible for delivering capital products and co-chairing a local policy hiring working group. last year we were able to put our heads together, work collectively to implement this landmark policy to bring to wherever -- whenever we are implementing our capital projects to make sure that our monies also go to providing local jobs to this communities that are impacted by our capital projects. we work together with a different department head to maximize existing resources and to minimize costs and we have successfully done that. i want to thank all of our department heads here today, department of public works mohammed nehru. teresa sparks from the human rights commission, the public utilities commission. i would like rec and park for hosting here at the playground. this is one of the projects that is under construction and that are hitting its local

city still is done by car. we need to change that, and the only way we will change that is if we get an investment from youth, a cross-section of the city, across social demographics, not just low- income but all youth. the only way we will do that as it we really make muni free for all youth. as one to come up and say that. >> i said that. my name is desmond miller from larkin street services. san francisco is taking a $4 million cut the services. in addition, due to the change, and the serving women, infants, children, and yet, we know said in cisco is taking a cut to services or positive youth -- we know san francisco. we reduce medical care and mental health care to and that of gravity services. we are asking the mayor and board of supervisors to help mitigate the effects of these cuts, and the positive youth especially. again, i am the management of hiv testing and prevention, and you would be eliminating my position as well as those of my staff and our ability to get too specific, targeted a chevy testing

more and more people living in the cities, cities that have larger stair of the world's population, cities that become more and more important in the lives of every place. there is something as difficult as it is, there's something of majesty about a city, what it encompasses, what it means to us, it is where our great culture is, it is where our finest expressions of everything, whether it's finance or fashion or movies or any other aspect of innovation, creativity or technology, all of those things. it is where we sort of come together to share the human experience. >> i'm going to make that a commercial. [laughter] >> we just heard from eric schmidt earlier today from google who said that his most innovative teams are working in close proximity, that this sort of idea of distance working this distance working really hasn't helped productivity, innovation that they found that working close together and that's what we do in cities. we're the places, we're the halt bed of -- hot bed of culture and education because we're in the sense traition are concentratioe like minded people can grow a

because the result of it is the greater city and a more caring city, a city that is going to be not just greener, but it will be one that will be healthier for everybody. and that is the attraction of san francisco. people all over the world come to san francisco not only for its innovations but for its reflection of care it has with the environment. that is what distinguishes our city from some many others. so happy to have a lively department of the environment that works with everybody to make sure we are reaching out to all of the different cultures that come here and establish themselves here. there is no cultural barrier when it comes to caring for our environment and caring for the world. we have to have the same language, the same attitude that we care about all of our communities, and we have to get everybody involved. no matter what economic scale their act, no one should be left out of this great goal that we have for the city, to be a city for everybody. and fresh fruits and vegetables are health in terms of our own bodies and our communities and in terms of the health in thi

our city is not the same city that it was when it was sand dunes. it is not the same city that it was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. we are jammed packed to the gills. on sunday, it is is about as bad as it ever is. that affects our transit. when we cannot find the support that we need from communities like yourselves, i am going to sacramento in -- on may 2. i am going to talk to those people. they can keep us from having to transfer these painful sources of revenue on to the community because we have to protect what we have. we do not get the kind of funding that we need and we are in these positions, we have to make tough choices. i am thinking about the folks who do not get free transit. they do not get free transit on holidays. they have to pay for a trip to get to where they need to go after 6:00 on a sunday. or 10:00 on a weekday. or any time. i really do, and and very sensitive, to the needs of this community and the services that you offer. i want to support you 100%. i've been there with you in the past and i will be there in the futu

the means to the city -- what that means to the city. we ask you to vote yesterday. thank you. >> that afternoon, commissioners. -- good afternoon, commissioners. we are living the economy forward. this is our number one project. for this year, finally, after a decade, get the city to approve the reconstruction for both the economy at a public health these hospitals. a few projects have had in recent years had extensive environmental review, link the development negotiations and committee at rates that has surrounded this critically important project. what you have heard today, you have heard very little about the key need for the reconstruction of these facilities. seismic safety and continued delivery of public health services after a natural disaster. whether there disaster comes five minutes from or flat years from will, it will come. we need to move the approvals board for this project here in san francisco and under our california. i was thinking as a person born in a hospital that does not exist anymore, that hospital is gone. the hospital that was rebuilt on

manage the city in an economically-recoverable way. we still have a lot of work to do because, with 8% unemployment rate, that is 7000 people who have yet to get jobs, and they are looking desperately for them. we have got a huge partnership with sf city to get into that unemployment group of people. one of the things that the technology companies have signaled his they want to give back. part of the way you can give back, by way of their success, is to help me establish one of the first the employment training centers in the country aimed at people who want to join the technology industry. this employment training center is being funded and led by the technology companies through sf city. they began with how they are recruiting right now their employees. they decided to consolidate their recruitment efforts online to a website that we have called hiresf.org. that is the beginning. there will be training programs. they are working on criteria that could then be reflected in training classes for skill sets they will hire people for and

this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really important as a solution for being accessible. ok, does it work? yes. this is the city

we are the city for the 100%. we will work together. i will make sure the city. discourse is positive. we will not forget the foundation that provides us with economic growth. let's move forward and let's move forward together. thank you very much. [applause] >> i guess that makes it clear why mayor lee's approval rating is soaring. thank you, mayor, for your leadership and vision and since we're running over, i will do just a very quick wrap up. prosperity together as possible. but it is only possible when business, labour, and government work together. that was our theme today. that is the goal for the year ahead. we could not bring new programs like this without our great sponsors. let's get around the's to jpmorgan chase and all our top sponsors -- let's give a round of applause to jpmorgan chase and all our top sponsors. thank you to our board members. thank you for support. it is going to be a great year ahead and think you for coming out this morning. -- thank you for coming out this morning. [applause] >> i am rich with enterprise community partners. it i

i came to san francisco because i believed the city is a city of diversity, a city of fairness, a city of fairness, but all i see is injustice and corruption. you guys should dismiss this charge and let the man continued doing his job. suspension without pay is unfair and cruel. he has got family and has to be able to pay. a whole thing is just a sham. it is politically motivated. you guys should drop these charges and let the man continued to do his job. shared mirkarimi is one of the best politicians in san francisco. he fights for san francisco. he fights for the san francisco values. he is the type of politician we need in san francisco. i support victims of domestic violence. the victim is not saying that she was abused. she is supporting there has been. the d.a. dropped all of the charges, and there is a new charge of false imprisonment. it is a shame. you guys should not allow this to continue, and it is very unfortunate that we are in this situation right now. this man has got a lot of supporters in san francisco. even removed from his job, he still has a lot of influence in sa

to be a transit-first city. that was a wonderful thing because that has guided us for so many generations, and it has guided me to today that we are still a transit-first system. this is why we invest in our chances system. while we are going to make sure it is not only serving all of us, but that it welcomes in the new route we are creating that mayer brown has worked so hard to get established. now, with the help of senator feinstein and the help of so many of our delegation and state representatives, we will start and finish that central subway that will also be the complement of the third street light rail. that will be another admission that we look forward to our transit system representing, to connect up eventually to what we have already started at the transbay terminal so that all of our muni transit system can connect up to the wonderful world of high-speed rail. that will be in our lifetime. not just a wish. we are taking steps to make sure that is a reality. that is our future. we cannot risk the ina

not many cities can boast that. in the last year, it has dropped since mayor lee and we at the border supervisors came into office. for me, this continues we are doing at city hall, our mission. and a real point to the students here. please know that city hall and your local government is here because we want to create a better future and we are working for you. we will not rest until we deliver on that promise. congratulations to everyone. we look forward to seeing this make a difference four years to come in our city. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisors, for being here. as i mentioned earlier, when our students finish, they move onto internships with 22 companies, including mozilla, j.p. morgan chase, and micromenders, among others. the first of them to join us was salesforce.com. they are the enterprise, computing company that is leading the ship to social enterprise. one of the largest and best employers in the city. it is my honor to welcome one of our best friends from salesforce.com. [applause] >>

-- done for our city. i'm honored to present this to our friend, tony bennett. ♪ >> ♪ the fabulous tony bennett home the world all seems to know sang a song about this town and it left our city of low -- aglow grammy awards, and the awards, and a kennedy nominate a star on hollywood and vine all to honor his legacy he's a painter his picasso he's got the class of fred astaire and today, we are gathered here to show you just how much we care you hold our hearts in san francisco so many songs you've sung to me and the rags to riches what a sound and a man who sings never retire of san francisco i love your album "duets" both i and ii for there is no one quite like you you are the heart of san francisco one of the greats we know it's true for when you graced us -- our town of san francisco our golden sun will shine

the city budget is $6.8 billion a year, a big number. half of that is in the city's general fund. the other half is in the enterprise fund. the way i like to think about that is, if you were a small business owner, you would separate your business expenses from your household expenses. should i stand forward or back? what is the sound issue? ok -- just technology. if you think about your household expenses and business expenses, you would separate them out. that is what we do in the city. all of our business expenses are in the enterprise fund. household expenses are in the general fund. that is our human pass social services safety net, public safety services, fire, police, ems. it is also our streets and infrastructure. building capital projects and improving our streets. it is also recreation and park. so it is all those kinds of things. we also spend money on paying people to do those services. you all know, the spoke work for the city. we have about 26,000 people that work for us, and we spent half of the budget every year on salaries and benefits. so it is a big cost for us.

stepping in the city as successor. transferring our affordable housing assets to our mayor's office of housing. in terms of our structure, it is a new structure which we will discuss, confirming the appointments of the oversight board that would review all activity of the former redevelopment agency with respect to tax increments periods since that time and since the evolution, we have taken a number of steps required under that legislation. allstate compliance steps to provide for the state a fear of picture of our obligations as we move forward under the successor agency. only those that are recognized that our -- by the state and board. that is what we use tax increment for. as we talked about this oversight board, there were four appointees and three seats. the primary purpose of this board is a fiduciary, a fiscal responsibility to make sure all the former obligations and assets are honored and paid off. two, the sports-the board also confirmed -- there are three major projects. which through an integrated set of

i would also move at the end of the city when any of you have meetings or plans on that end of the city and fate steps in, you might get hit by another car, car crash, drunk driver. if you're on that end of the city and it falls on you to come into this hospital, where would you want to be, hospital access at this point or having to fight the whole city to get to cpmc? so, again, please don't ignore a large part of the city and the demographics are changing as well as drug use, san francisco is one of the highest drug use cities in the nation, possibly the world. people from all over the world getting addicted causing mental health illness. if they don't have any access, the prison population will rise and those people will be in prison. thank you. president fong: thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you. president fong, members of the commission, my name is david meckel. i'm the director of research and planning at california college of the arts where i founded san francisco's first professional architectural program 27 years ago. my expertise is in city planning, urban design,

then i can go out with the city's commitment to 2500 jobs in the city agencies. city agencies like our public utilities commission is going to take kids into the sewer, into the water mains, and learn what it is to keep our infrastructure going. right? we have rec and park in charge of the most beautiful parks in the world and our neighborhood parks, our golden gate park. we are going to have youth working with them all summer. our public libraries. the libraries that are not closing. they are opening as we speak. more neighborhood libraries open. they have an exciting program for our youth. even our juvenile probation department. yes, they have jobs for our youth this summer. they're going to be part of a challenge of all of our departments working together with youth works, with our department of children youth, with our families, our school district, to 4 hour 2500 jobs. so i want to thank all of the department heads for being here today. you are really finding out how hard it is to do more with less, but you are working with me to make this bonafide commitmen

i also want to say that the city should not expect us to pay for this is a city problem and the city needs to fix it. supervisor chu: next speaker. the other microphone. >> i'm susan word, a masters- prepared a registered nurse at san francisco general. i have been paying taxes and since the mid 70's, and i have never come to a meeting like this. i am very impressed with the level of democracy we have here. we have the psychiatric unit of san francisco general since the mid '80s. i have had my hair pulled, i am at risk every time i draw blood from an agitated or aggravated patient. if a friend of yours has a psychiatric emergency, i am the nurse that you wanted take care of. i think i have become a bad fit. my point in being here is to let you know that a p as aer diem, my -- as a per diem, the extra money goes to the irs. i could work every day. when i work -- when they want to cancel me, they can. the same insurance that i get now and i would get for free. it is much more beneficial to the department to have a non- benefit a person because i maintain all of my health care. what i w

today, it is the significant symbol of our city. today, you have not only the millions of riders that were mentioned, but i guess you have at least 700,000 a day on this system. it is incredible. it is special. it needs care, concern, funding, fixing, and that is really what all of this is about. for all of you that are here today to say happy birthday, but also we want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem, i want to thank you. what makes city's great are people who care. never forget that. so in this room, you have a heritage, and you have a legacy, and that is, i think, the finest and most unusual public transportation system in the united states of america. let's keep it going, strong, fixed, and funded, for the next 100 years. thank you for letting me be part of it. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, senator, for being here. if you and the mayor would come over please, we would like you to unveil the logo here. this is the muni centennial logo, which will brand our yearlong celebrat

tell me what you say tell me what you say don't you love this city as you are walking out your city hall door like you did 10,000 times ♪ -- i have graphics. ♪ before ♪ boy, is this an old door knocker. and it is the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake again almost. here is a piece of the melted metal from the graphics. ♪ i feel the earth move under my city feet i feel the sky tumbling down i feel my heart starts to assemble in when the city burns it is in back then 0, city, when i want you say it is always like the month of may won't you make it that way i feel the city to earth move under my feet i feel the sky burning it down ♪ >> supervisors, when the board had considered a resolution criticizing the israeli raid on the gossip flotilla two years ago, supervisor elsbernd voiced his opposition, saying he did not believe his constituents elected him to be weighing in on a blockade in the middle of the mediterranean -- supervisor chiu: if you could please address your comments to all the members of the board, it would be appreciated. those are our board rules. >> mr. elsbernd st

muni service built this city over the last century. today, the investment we made in the t line is revitalizing neighborhoods. these historic street cars on the f line which have already helped transform the northern embarcadero, enabling the star attractions, will help mayor lee in his initiative to revitalize mid market. streetcars are a colorful connection between the mid- market neighborhood and vibrant communities elsewhere along the route. with some creative promotions, they can bring more people to bid market, which i call the heart of market, and helped drive the artist and technology communities now getting established there. our nonprofit pledges of our help to you in helping put the existing service to work to help you meet your mid-market goals. we also look forward to the permanent implementation of additional streetcar service along the whole wing of the embarcadero, the e line that mayor brown foresaw as being a powerful tool to help develop the unmatched waterfronts of the poor. finally, we look forward to expanding on

welcome to city hall. i immediately want to thank all the people here that are sharing our stage, from commissioner ch ang to our guest from at&t, our tax collector assessor, phil king, counsel general gao, david chiu, carmen chu, eric mar, and other board members who will join us. scott weiner, malia cohen who just came from china lot -- not long ago from a trip. thank you for being here. to our family associations, our department heads, our other commissioners and friends, happy new year, and welcome to our official celebration here at city hall of our wonderful chinese lunar new year. we just came from the official lighting of our new lantern. i hope you will stay tonight long enough to view all of its beauty and the lightness of it. there are a lead the lights on there. there are recycle cd's on the dragon boat. it is 76 feet long. it is, of course, my entry into the america's cup. anyway, i want to thank everyone for being here, for helping us celebrate. as we have been saying, this is one of the most

that is what makes an investment-friendly city and also reflects the values the city has. thank you for coming out. i appreciate your time and your effort. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i am going to take two minutes to introduce the men and women to my left and right. as the mayor said, a unit next to as the leadership of many of our city agencies that help to manage the close to $7 billion and the over 50 debarment we have in the city. starting on my right, mayor lee introduced supervisor carmen chu, who heads of our budget committee. thank you for being here. next to her is kate howard, our city's budget director. next to her is luis herrera, our city librarian who manages the san francisco public library. our housing and 30 is run by director henry alvarez -- housing authority is run by director henry l. burress. our human services agency, derek chu. now relations between any of thechu's tonight, by the way. the head of our department of children, youth, and families, maria. the head of the department of public health, barbara garcia. from our neighborhood, a mem

indeed mentor at city build academy helping me and my city build brothers and sisters, making dreams come true. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, jason. next, i would like to bring up a member from local 261. as jason manchin, this city build academy is with our great pressure but local 261 -- as jason it mentions. we appreciate our working relationship with local 261 and dave. dave. >> thank you. first and foremost, i want to thank mayor lee for his leadership room and his commitment to providing opportunities to san francisco residence. i want to thank the heads of departments. naomi kelly, mohammed nuru, supervisor avalos, for the ordinance that is in place now. that will provide the conduit for the job opportunities. i also want to acknowledge the students from city build i also want to congratulate my brother pat mulligan on his new appointment. with regards to the students of city build, i often go out there and speak before the class. i tell them what it takes to make it in this very competitive industry. you just heard from one of the students. you know, it is not just a jo

in fact, the units that are in front of city san francisco, in front of city hall, are actually those units. the second partnership by wanted to mention is one i will be talking more about tomorrow. it is with sun power. this is a really need a partnership. not only can you drive 100% on electricity with our focus electric, but for a reasonable amount of money, you can actually put solar on your roof that has been sized for that big goal and can provide you with essentially frequent electricity for the next 25 years. essentially that is the warranty on the system. we're happy with the partnership. we think that the blend of sun power and solar and focus electorate can be a powerful combination. we have also partnered with other companies as well. and these companies are not just companies. their electric utilities, municipalities, and they are ngo's as well, including cities like san francisco. i wanted to personally take this moment to applaud the city of san francisco for leading the way in electrification under mayor lee's leadership. and really, the last example i want to share is

city government. the idea is to expose the more -- expose them to more departments and hope that the best and brightest will choose to work within cities. this is modeled after a program in new york city. the founder had gone to that program. commissioner wu would know something about it, but it is here in san francisco, and it is interesting because these fellows get paid, and most of the departments are enterprise departments because they have the flexibility. several had degrees in urban planning or urban studies or architecture, and it would be great to figure out a way to get one of these people on staff at some point in the future. these fellowships run based on the san francisco fiscal cycle. we did a study looking at eastern neighborhoods, and they went for generally the planning department code and talk a little bit about eastern neighborhoods and took a project study and had a developer talk a little bit about the give and take. it was interesting. i felt like i learned a lot as well looking

i have always loved this city. i think that san francisco is -- it represents the best of what this country has to offer. it is a place that welcomes people from all over the world, from all over the country, and is a place that not only tolerates, but actually increases diversity. it is a place that is forward thinking in terms of how it looks at issues, and it has always felt like home. as a gay latino man, i felt this was a place where i could be happy. >> why did you get involved? supervisor campos: i think a lot of the past to do with my being an immigrant. i am very grateful for all the opportunities this country has given me. only in this country could someone like me have an opportunity to go from having nothing to go to stanford, harvard law school, and to be an attorney. it really is a way of giving back. i really believe that when you are blessed with the opportunities that this country gives you, that you have an obligation to give back. i really believe in public service. i could be in the private sect