sister cities i am absolutely delighted that we are sister cities. and particularly since we are not blood relations, as it were, seems the pleasure gained from having children, one another and is really what gives a relationship weight. what i find particularly pleasing is that in this relationship that we have chosen to enter into, the distance between us is having a positive effect. if there is a sense of competition, then it is one that is driving business. what i also find particularly attractive is that those who have chosen one another demand proof of love, as it were. and there is more family networks stretching over it that makes the relationship a matter of course. instead, we reflect one another's common grounds, we assure one another and we strengthen each other by consistently renewing our relationship. providing proof of love is easily done in san francisco. i like courting and to be courted, and more importantly this is something that helps us make progress. we are here to work on behave of our cities to establish with you a network of

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

and i think that is huge, if you have someone coming from another city and another state to city our program, that means that we set a standard by far. >> when we say to someone interested in city build. i would say, if you are serious about changing your life in the best way possible, i would stay and try the city build academy. i think that it would be great. i would like now to thank some people involved in this. i would like to say thanks and then i'm very honored and humbled to be the student representative for city built academy cycle 16. for me to be standing here as a great privilege and i will like to thank all of you for that. thank you very much. i also would like to say thank you to mission hire hall and all of their distinguished staff for all of the hard work that they have done for us, all of us. i also would like [ applause ] >> i also would like to thank our city build liaisons for all of their dedication and hard work and determination. [ applause ] >> and lastly, i would like to thank the mayor's office. because what the mayor's office they make everything possible

it is a dense city, not as much as city of new york. that gives you a chance to have a life experience 24/7, not just during your business day. >> other questions? >> a specific problem -- i'm wondering [inaudible] are there specific problems that you are looking -- is it a problem? [inaudible] >> we have so many problems to solve. just the other day, for example, we were trying to figure out how do we get even a better preparation in our neighborhoods for the expected earthquake disaster we are having in the city and along comes a whole bevy of coming in this economy that affects the management and the host company that is start ing in san francisco that want to plan with us and not wait for a disaster to hit and then find out that we could have accessed many people. that is helpful for the mayor to search for more partners and get ready and be more excited about recovery. when you look at what happened in new orleans and all the victims of tornados. they always tell you they could have been more ready for this had they engaged people

we've met in every district of the city. we've worked with our elected city family. we listened to hundreds of community leaders and providers who help us deliver services to the people of san francisco. and it's because of this consensus approach that i'm proud to propose a responsible and balanced two-year budget that reflects the core values that we share in san francisco, values of fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, and investing in our city's future. when we began this year's budget, we began like many years before, trying to reduce significant budget deficits. but because we have pursued policies to control costs, grow our economy, create jobs and stabilize our fiscal health, this year i'm proposing a budget that protects our social safety net, one that increases public safety, and one that invests in our city's infrastructure at unprecedented levels. and it is a budget that significantly grows our city's reserves. this budget is being delivered as san francisco's economy is recovering, going, and moving in the right direction. and san franciscans ar

us some analytics on how people move around cities and how vehicles drive around cities. so, currently we have 16 neighborhoods -- 18 neighborhoods covered in san francisco, and we get real-time data back that shows exactly how many people go by some of the busiest areas in san francisco. so, you can see here san francisco, on average total, i think we had 150 people cross our sensors on average for every sensor. in case you want to go into time density. so, we end up getting these really, really great visualizations of the busiest times and the least busiest times of people moving around san francisco. you want to go down into union square? you can see the data changes dramatically when we change the neighborhood. and just illustrates how different every neighborhood in san francisco really is. we're announcing today that we're providing some of this data to the city as a kind of public service to help the citizens here figure out how many people walk around their neighborhood. but mostly it's to help public service, like the fire department, the police department, the m

and city employees. so, we would also like to get clarity on who is responsible for overseeing compliance because right now, the code knows that the human rights commission are supposed to approve a list of trainers. we don't find it a sufficient solution to the capacity needs of the city departments because there is not training program that is going to meet all of the needs of city departments. there needs to be a centralized process. and dedicated support for the city departments to make this happen. >> is that within each department? or one over sees every department is part of it? >> we recommend that each department has individual needs but that their needs to be a centralized compliance effort and so maybe having like an rsp process for the whole city, but then, having individualized training programs per department or if there is an rfp process for each department that would be a little bit more but i think what we would like to focus on is making sure that someone is named for checking the compl

and dignitaries and hosts, thank you for your time which shows how important city build is to the city of san francisco. and you know, it is really energized to be a ceremony like this where it is the end of one journey and allows you to take that next step and what you just completed is a really practical program that you can have truly a significant impact in your life and i know that because i'm familiar with the path that you are about to start. as i too started my journey in the trades and i have been lured to the benefits that you get from construction and you know that you try to plan and you figure out what you are going to do in the morning and then in the afternoon there is real physical results and the pride from your work and the web corp builders we are proud to have many of the graduates working on our projects. and once you are in the field, the opportunities only continue. you know, it is not uncommon for people to expand their horizon and their abilities going to estimating and business development and union representatives, and becoming inspectors for the city and goi

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

obligation to share that with the city so that we can mine that to the rest of the city, that's advance of opportunities for everybody. i know at the heart of sharing this data, there is going to be a lot more jobs created, a lot more people out therein venting new ways to establish small businesses that will improve the way we live and work and play in the city. and we look forward to great events like a super bowl host or something like that, we're going to be able to give people a really rich amount of programs that they could access from here to santa clara to san jose. we can act regionally with our data and we can join and continue to be in the great city of san francisco. so, i want to thank all of the people, all of the different starting up companies here and those that are inventing with us, thank them for celebrating innovation month in such a exemplary way. and i think we're going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. thank you very much. (applause) >> now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board presid

they are smart enough to do that, but they want to get going at city college. >> do you see the city in this budget cycle actually carving out a dollar amount? >> here is what we're doing, because i don't think it is always to be measured by the amount of money you give for bailouts. i have been paying personal attention to their accreditation program. i have had interim chancellor scott in my office and i had the state chancellor, who is in charge of accreditation in my office, on the phone, on a monthly basis. i have worked directly with our controller, and a team of people from our controller's office, to pour over the economics. because part of the challenge was that their accreditation had to do with two broad areas: their economic stability, but also the way they governed themselves over many, many years and when you read the accreditation report, it didn't happen overnight. it happened over many, many years of decisions that didn't pay attention to a number of factors. and so recovering from that takes more than just financial investment. it takes a concerted partnership, with

one thing the city of san francisco or big cities or federal, right, the other smaller cities, smaller cities have smaller budgets. having a structure to support all this open data takes a lot of money. so, when these small cities are thinking about this, they should think about a way of somehow equalizing because they are putting into having these open data team, right? so, what does make sense? this is kind of an open question to get your point of view. >> do you want to take that, shannon? >> i think that there is actually quite ah few examples. we can probably talk to this more with smaller cities that are making open data efforts. but what i would say is that it's proven more than the value of the investment. the return that we've gotten just by opening up the data has actually given back more. so, that would be my short answer to it, but i think you probably have more experience working directly with some of the cities. >> so, i grew up in a small city so i care about small cities a lot, 15,000 people, southern illinois. i'm a card nastionv fan. -- cardinals fan. i should say tha

we now have over 40 cities that have joined us. in 2011 we partnered with gray area foundation on a series of hack-a-thons, 10,000 attendees, and created nearly 30 applications all being powered by open data. now in 2012 we have our legislation that you heard about. as you heard, we announced the chief data officer. we have a network of open data coordinators within each agency. and these coordinators, their primary responsibility is to provide insight, is to provide transparency into the data sets that they manage. and that's really important. we want to make sure that you guys have a clear understanding in our community about the data that we manage so you can tell us where we should be going next in terms of opening up our data sets. we also are doing some structural changes so that open data is really the default position for our city. we're making sure that data belongs to our city, not the vendor. and second, we're making sure that any software that we buy or build hatx a public api or some equivalent. we don't want to be hel

of this great city. the mayor said he wants to support ourcy city and respect them and pay a great deal of attention. and the mayor has come through of what he's done. may i present mayor ed lee >> i know charlotte is incredibly overjoyed with this wherever we have to greet and visit our cities and others mayors we immediately within minutes can appreciate the change and there's so much going on with this city. the commissioner looked at two relaxed during the invest. and barring also known as comments us. i want to thank you for your visit here. although he's been here before this is his first official visit. his commencemee emt our staff c together and challenge great information about technology. health care, transportation are changing industrial areas like we've done in mission bay. literally we're looking at how we have progressed and at the same time paying great respect to our roles as environmental leaders in the world. i know san francisco and barring also known as are joining many other intern

it is bearing down on the city of oklahoma city. moving east ward and joining us right now on the phone from oklahoma city is nbc's jay gray. jay, what is the situation there? >>. >> reporter: i don't know if you can lear it, by sirens are going off and they have been every two minutes here. it turned pitch black? the downtown area. a huge wall cloud with circulation we can see now is hovering just outside the city and the worst of it is still moving in as you heard and everyone has been talking about here. streets virtually empty. emergency vehicles out there. we have seen people running into the convention center to get to anunder irground shelter there. a lot of the buildings evacuated here. that started earlier under the afternoon when the forecast looked promising for severe storms. a lot of businesses let their employees leave early to get home to their families to make sure they are safe. the wind is picking up. it is beginning to pull done here. >> is it too dark to be able to make out or is the tornado too far for you to ma

doing the kind of things to make our city better. i don't see a better preparation for being a city supervisor. the non profit world is a challenging community because of the need for the great programs. i want to advocate to work with city departments. the list goes on and on. so over the years i've made some important partnerships who have made me be the leader i am. all that entails really helped me as my roll in supervisor. well, the district 5 was an especially event. >> what did you learn? >> i learned we have an incredible district of people who can see what's genuine and who has a heart for the community. regardless of are personalities or whatever people know when you really care and i think that came across in any captain. i learned to respect the voters and how they feel about the candidates i want to make sure their given the options. and that once the election is over we move on. >> where you do you place yourself on the political spectrum. that's a challenging question throughout the caption that divides our city. clear

we believe that both enhancement would support the city's -- what should be the city's goal that everyone wants a job should be provided with the support and opportunity to obtain one. thank you supervisors. >> honorable supervisors i am alex with the geneva house and the power house is 113 year old building in the city. for 13 years we have been turning it into a community center. it's now owned by the recreation and parks department and we have been defunded and we're asking that funding be restored. with the car barn we are able to do multitude of things for families and nonprofits in excessor which are needy which are leaving. a lot of families are leaving. families are leaving. i don't want them to go. i want my family to stay. if the car barn is an entity that can help them. it can offer resources -- for three and a half years we have been offering resources to youth. right now we have two college programs in the journalism department at city college and one at lake high school. i can tell you the need. we have so many applicants because excessior has the second most amount of youth

capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we can't do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. when did capital city clean up start? it was launched in 2005 as a pilot program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a huge success that they expanded the program in 2006 to include a residential component for litter pick-up. we now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each h

the northeast edge of the city, into a model city of the future. formerly the king's hunting ground, the city purchased the area in the 19th century and converted it to an industrial port with oil- and gas-handling facilities. today, empty buildings are reminders of the past industrial revolution. but by 2020, developers plan to turn this 583-acre area into a mixed-use eco-city, an attractive place to live and work. >> my name is staffan lorentz. i am head of development for the stockholm royal seaport project. we are planning in transforming an old industrial import area into new areas for living for 10,000 new apartments and 30,000 new work spaces. the projects in this phase actually started in 2010. it was--we made a program together with a port company to find out, what ways should we use the area for in the future? the port company needed to have more space to develop on, and also the city is rapidly growing. we need to have more spaces for houses and work spaces, so we needed to go together and find out, what things should we have inside of s

this is not an obligation of the city -- from city funds. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i'm asking to draft legislation around our [speaker not understood] air and transportation ordinance, actually amend that ordinance. [speaker not understood] was passed in 2010 and the goal of hactor was to implement the city's transit first policy for city departments, reduce the size of the city's vehicle fleet and promote the purchase of low emission and zero emission vehicles. since its passage it has led to reducing the city fleet by 99 vehicles. however, this year's budget has raised some issues with [speaker not understood] we need to address. one is the requirement to remove vehicles from service once they are 12 years old. there is a process for waiving the majority of the city's fleet from the required reductions. the ordinance calls for removing from service vehicles that were more than 12 years old by july 1st, 2015. the mayor's budget proposal purchasing 91 new vehicles fo

you pay taxes and this is how the city receives funds, the funds the city uses to operate. about 33 percent are from for property taxes. 13 percent for business-related taxes. importantly about 20 percent, one out of every five dollars that we get, comes from the state or federal government. what that means is that when the state or federal government makes a change or makes us a policy choice or a funding decision they have a direct effect here in san francisco. this is really trying to show you - we've done a lot of work over the last few years trying to do a better job planning. in predicting how much money we think we are likely to take in and how much money it will cost to operate city government. what this slide is showing, in the black bar, the darker one, it shows you how much revenue we projected taken over the next five years and essentially it is showing the revenues growing we are predicting by 13 percent over the next five years at healthy revenue growth, we are seeing the economic recovery play out here. we are projecting 25 percent growth to keep pace with in

when it got over oklahoma city, south of oklahoma city, it kind of split up. there's like three storms going through right now different parts of the metro. i'm afraid oklahoma city's probably been hit pretty hard. >> obviously the situation on the highway in oklahoma city as we have been talking about, there's this women's softball world series taking place all week. there were supposed to be two games tonight. we know players and fans right now are seeking safety underneath the stadium. obviously games have been canceled but there's a lot of concern about -- there you see a tweet that was sent out a short time ago by someone from the university of washington softball team. you get a sense of how crowded that underground shelter is. mayor, how big is the shelter where you are right now, how many folks do you have in there? >> just a couple of us. a couple dogs. what we just heard the hockey game, they took about 8,000 people out of that game, went over to the chesapeake arena where they could get underground. we know that's just happened in oklahoma city. >>

ever services here in city call hall and i want to welcome great a i think this thure we programmed over ten institutions in the city of san francisco including the air film festival the arab culture and committee center but also with the tamp pais public library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of san francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. (applause). . thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very importan

play in the city. and we look forward to great events like a super bowl host or something like that, we're going to be able to give people a really rich amount of programs that they could access from here to santa clara to san jose. we can act regionally with our data and we can join and continue to be in the great city of san francisco. so, i want to thank all of the people, all of the different starting up companies here and those that are inventing with us, thank them for celebrating innovation month in such a exemplary way. and i think we're going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. thank you very much. (applause) >> now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. come on up, david. (applause) >> good morning. i am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. first of all, the hatchery is one of my favorite places

but what about every other city body? when i go to the library commission, and i fill out a card could they redact it or just pass it out? >> if i come here could you redact it or pass it out? >> i mean, the very, if you listened to your own arguments and your own discussions, that is the real question. what is right? what does the law require and what does it prohibt. >> you are willing to take these very vague things about we think that we know what was redacted and we are told what the city attorney said and we don't have anything in writing to actually say that. we have a memo that refers to the constitution. but, is there any legal statement as to what part of the constitution and what specifically had addresses? and as a result, you may, and in this case, you may decide that it is as far as this particular matter and this particular arts commission, they were okay. and if there are five other ones out there and they are given out the information and could i file a sunshine complaint and file it for giving it out and

and just raked across the oklahoma city area and suburban oklahoma city. some of them went just to the south and east of the city. and at one point moving about 20 miles an hour. later at about 35 miles an hour. the latest word on casualties comes to us at fox news from the oklahoma highu(v patrol. that of a mother and daughter blown off a highway and killed in the path of this storm. with that said, i can tell you that the cbs television affiliate kwtv in oklahoma city our network news service affiliate there is reporting on its phone five fatalities in the oklahoma tornadoes today though fox news does not have the information and cannot confirm it. noaa is now reporting 11 tornadoes confirmed today in missouri, oklahoma, illinois and iowa. we are waiting for more damage reports to come in from the oklahoma city area. from what we are able to bring together so far, no areas of widespread destruction. 1it(áhpáhut know, no major facilities no, malls, no hospitals, no nursing homes, nothing that holds a lot of people. no apartment complexes. we did get rep

most of it isn't focused on the city government so we have at the moment what the city is spend money on. we have active a simple version of the database which allows you to see what the city is paying vendors. so the economic bar roommate. we have some race gender information. and we really want to improve that going forward >> we have a small amount of information that's geographyly there. we think it's interesting information. we hope to have more in the year ahead >> so it's sf open book. >> sf open book @.org. and you can pull it down and launch in the different modules we're trying to billed >> okay. i'll take a look at. and we welcome feedback as we are building to serve public needs. and lastly a significant light and effort obviously by us and other departments in integrating the success of the financial family. it's taken a significant amount of time. we've integrated them into the city's financial system and for the bank account balances and transferred those to the treasurer. and in the year ahead working on a whole host of other issues including debt management. so our of

in the city. especially we're in the boom time right now. we're seeing a lot of economic activity. we're seeing a lot of wealth that's generated as well as being shared and get into places where it's needed most. i think this report can give us a baseline sense of how we can actually make decisions about resources that can provide that greater opportunity. i would like to see if it's possible we can actually as a committee agree to give direction to the budget analyst to provide, you know, somewhat of a framework for all departments they're doing work with to look at some of these indicators and use them as a way to -- as a lens to look at the budget and how they could -- we might be able to improve upon the work that the departments are doing in terms of the service delivery. i want to pose that question to you, colleagues. >> supervisor breed? >> i'm okay -- i'm definitely open to that, but i also had a couple of other comments. i was going to wait until you finished up. but there's a lot to be

our dispensaries are city permitted and city zoned. i'm sure if there was a mistake in zoning, our zoning department is more than responsible. we also want to acknowledge there are now 21 states, eight out of 10 americans and 78% of all the world's positions are in our corner. i don't know if this request is controversial. i think it's timely and i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hello, board of supervisors. my name is john martinelli. i'm a medical cannabis patient and i also want to call attention to what melinda haig is doing to our community and causing not just the closing of of dispensaries that are vital, but there is the collateral damage of the -- all of the people that are losing their jobs being employed in these places and their health care benefits, not to mention that they're not contributing into the tax roll as such. it's just not right that a place that's a sanctuary city like san francisco should be attacked by the feds if for something that is state and city sanctioned and everything

so we're tracking retail vacancies all around the city. if you go storefrontsf.com, i was able to pop up the site. for each listing we have contact info, we have photos and we have more information. this is a brand-new program. we're really excited about it. we have gotten a lot of positive feedback from brokers, from small business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking for space. and so again, that is part of baseline services. we're trying to is deploy that in all 25 invest in neighborhoods corridors. we have a mini grant program, making small grants to neighborhood-based groups to implement neighborhood improvement projects. we have new loan products and we have community capacity-building projects. with training and workshops for neighborhood advocates, a merchant association leader who really wants to make a change in their neighborhood. i could give you an hour just on this one slide, but i'm not going to. i'm going to keep moving. that is "baseline services." so we're trying to get those is deployed to all of these 25 neighborhoo

i want the residents and visitors in this city to feel that they have a safe city to invest in and i want a city that is reflective our successes. a sound, a safe and successful city. these are the principles that i would like the budget to reflect. and that we have very successful sectors of our economy that are helping us perform this. i want to keep investing in those things. i think the big number, the big word this year is less about deficit, although we will make those gaps reach balance, but it's also where we really invest to make this city more safe and successful while we're making it economically sound? that is what is going to guide me and i hope that the public will understand and appreciate that because in the end it's their quality of life i would like to pay attention to. >> i would like to introduce your budget spouse as you described him, supervisor mark farrell who is also the chair of the supervisor's budget committee. supervisor farrell you were really the person who is going to be spearheading this lengthy, rigorous, difficult process through the board of superv

we are using that as the city wide effort to keep our city beautiful. sparkling and clean and educating youth and provide the scholarships and support for them and using culture -- about the cleanliness of our neighborhoods and respecting our neighborhoods all throughout our city. we are also engaging the bright technological mindsen joining us in s f city and join the chambers in creating jobs and training for those last year, last summer, over 5,005,000 and eight jobs were created for summer for our youth, paying jobs every single one of them and this year we expect to exceed it with your help and the help of other companies here and we need to create hope in every aspect for our youth as mayor khan said they are going to inherit the city and the successes that we are pawk talking about today, they are going to also inherit failure and is we want to have less failures with their invest and investment in them and in companies like sales force zooma and at which timer are all leading the evident with the 1800 other technology companies to help us create