city college is a staple of education within the city. we don't only want to see city college saved. we want to see city college improved. we want to see city college addressing some of the historic issues of racial inequity, the achievement gap for students of color, especially african-american students, the amount of time that it takes students to graduate when they get into city college. so, we were really would like to see you take leadership in bringing the community together to build more support around saving city college, while most definitely including the fact we need to strive to improve the situations at city college that aren't working for students to make them successful. there's a lot of pressure to have a narrative that doesn't include equity and i want to most definitely make sure that as we continue to speak about this that we talk about equity. we put students at the center of the conversation and really make sure that it's guided by what's going to make sure students get the most out of their education at city college.

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

city college of san francisco. as a student i've been part of this city college for two years. i just recently finished all my studies last semester. but, you know, like a lot of things are happening here, you know, there are a lot of problems in city college like we have bathrooms that haven't been fixed. we have -- [speaker not understood]. we also have a lot of resistance in terms like a couple years ago we had our resource center being requested by undocumented students and, you know, it was really sad to walk in the halls and see people that weren't smiling at me really hurt, a lot of hypocracy. because at that point at that moment, those people were the ones that were accessing the [speaker not understood] resource center and now they are like here trying -- because they're losing their jobs, saying that you know, they're advocating for students of color when at that point they weren't advocating for it. the second point is at that moment to [speaker not understood] we were fighting for entrance for low-incom

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

your ideas, your engagement with us, you're aligning where we want to go to make the city a greater city is really the essence of managing a city. and i've learned that in many, many years of being a public serve ant, being an advocate to make sure the city represented its own diversity, of using that diversity as our strength, and going forward each of you are being asked to serve on extremely important commissions and bodies that i fully, fully respect. from fire, to transportation, to people handling billions of dollars in retirement, to our arts, to our health, to just getting permits out so that we can help people be success in this city. all of you are part of that. i just happened to address several hundred people this morning at a breakfast to talk about the health of our city. and part of that discussion was not just the health care programs that the country is heading into. it's also health means are we doing everything right for people? are we building strong communities? are we building neighborhoods? are we giving people the foundation in which they can invest to create a fa

>> it will turn around the city of detroit. >> the motor city. this is will we do. john: what's up with detroit? can this happen to your town? that's our show tonight. ♪ >> and now john stossel. ♪ john: detroit was once the richest city in america. i was three years old and. that was the 1950's. now it's the biggest u.s. city ever to declare bankruptcy. so what happened? our guests tonight have some clues. first, fox news reporter works in detroit and just wrote, detroit, an american autopsy. an autopsy, one examines the dead body and tries to find out what killed him. detroit isn't that exactly. what killed the trust? >> would kill the charge, racial conflict of detroit. slav kill detroit. corruption children. it seems like that is what has become the american way because detroit is not alone. what is baltimore going to do, atlanta, l.a. john: detroit is and worse shape. worse politicians, more unions. the automaker collapsed. it was in the politicians' fault. it was just the big three crashed. >> it was all of them. one industry town. we were rich. we thought

and i thank you for your assistance and the city's for supporting city college. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm hydra mendoza, mayor lee's education [speaker not understood] advisor. thank you for having me in the committee. i was asked to give you an update on the involvement of the mayor and what we've been doing in support of city college. so, there absolutely no question the value of city college and many of us attended and many of us continue to support the work that they're doing. the mayor has not been asked -- in regards to his involvement, a lot of the work that we've been doing has been part much behind the scenes, offering up services that come from staff mostly. ~ absent and making sure that they have what's available in terms of our resources. and, so, we've been really focused on making sure that our students and our families continue to go to a high-quality educational institution that will not only bring them to higher education, but work force development. so, the mayor has provided several key staff membe

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

city again. john: why not to before? >> we tried. keep in mind, this did happen overnight. thirty your 45 years in the making. the current uncil, the mayor under our watch we try some things. we cannot go any further. we have a legacy costs declining population the plot -- declining revenues. john: you have declining polation and revenue because you guys spend so much that there were lousy city services. >> well, you're correct. over the years we did not allow ourselves to keep pace with the declining population. the city continues to spend, and we came into office and cut the budget every year. nothing had been done like we have seen. we did as much as we could this point, but we a having people move into this right. therere a thriving businesses, people moving in, famies moving in. revitalization taking place but at the same time the expenses need to get on an even keel in order to have financing for city services so that people can have a quality of life. john: if somebody wants to sell, you o

and welcome to san francisco city hall. on this momentus occasion, we are going to have and celebrate the unveiling of the adolf trotro bust. and so we will begin with the present mayor of san francisco, mayor ed lee, talking about one of the former mayors of san francisco adolf trotro. >> all right. thank you, ellen. >> you are very welcome. president lee. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to city hall. and thanks for as a various departments that are here, i understand that we have three representatives from our counsel general offices, certainly our counsel general from germany, from israel and russia. thank you very much for being here. former supervisor clint is here, i can see him in the crowd thank you for being here as well. our chiefs from the fire and police department are here. members of our commissions are here as well and thank you very much. my good buddy, leonid, mucupkin has been an advisor to me for many, many years previous to my being mayor of san francisco. and he is always been giving me great advi

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

>> it will turn around the city of detroit. >> the motor city. this is will we do. john: what's up with detroit? can this happen to your town? that's our show tonight. ♪ >> and now john stossel. ♪ john: detroit w once the richest city in america. i was three years old and. that was the 1950's. now it's the biggest u.s. city ever to declare bankruptcy. so what happened? our guests tonight have some clues. first, fox news reporter works in detroit and just wrote, detroit, an american autopsy. an autopsy, one examines the dead body and tries to find out what killed him. detroit isn't that exactly. what killed the trust? >> would kill the charge, racial conflict of detro. slav kill detroit. corruption chiren. it seems like that is what has become the american way because detroit is notlone. what is baltimore going to do, atlanta, l.a. john: detroit is and worse shape. worse politicians, more unions. the automaker collapsed. it was in the politicians' ult. was just the big three crashed. >> it was all o them. one industry town. we were rich. we thought it would never

the charter creates a legal obligation for the city to provide health benefits to city employees and retirees and provide access to health, maybe i don't understand your question. i'm getting a look from supervisor farrell that i don't understand your question. >> it's possible that this could get to the full board and that i have been told that we need 9 members to approve and with the kaiser rates, some of us might not want to approve. what if the board does not approve, what happens to the existing insurance plans that employees have? >> you will have a problem. i have a presentation. do you want to wait for that. the city has an obligation to provide the care. >> i think we are starting to parse questions from there. why don't we've her run through the implications for that. >> i will answer your question in my presentation. >> great. thank you. >> okay. just to continue, the financial obviously we would have to update the budget and the liability for potentially increased rate in blue shield and city plan are higher than the kaiser rate and we would have to reschedule meetings f

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're a city of immigrants as well. so, your commissions also have to have a viewpoint that we are a world class city and we are a city that everybody, the whole world looks at to establish what are good economics, what is fairness and equity, and what is excitingly ip ~ innovative as a world class city. thank you for stepping up. if you would now stand up, i will provide you with the oath of office. and if you'll please say each of your names individually as i begin. and then at the end, you will jointly say that the bodies that you are about to be appointed to. please repeat after me. i... >>> i... [speaker not understood] >> do solemnly affirm >> do solemnly affirm >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california >> and the constitution of the state of california >> against all enemies foreign and domestic >> against all enemies foreign and domestic >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states >> to the co

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

how it affected the planning and the land use of the development of the city in its early days, and how in the last 40 years or so we see the swing in the changing of the face of the city, the changes in technology that have affected maritime industry and the traditional uses that created the port that gave rise to planning and new development and policy objectives that were born of the city to start looking at the waterfront differently as a place for people, so the staff report -- i'm not going to go into great detail. i think you can read it, but it's basically how the city up land has changed and how its relationship with the waterfront has changed and with the take down of the embarcadero freeway and the creation of the whole embarcadero transportation projects and the promenade and the light rail system we had a new palet on our hands that gave rise to the development water use plan and the commissioner was here to watch and witness in its early days and the community based work that went into creating the waterfront land use plan. it is the master plan for the port of san fra

maybe it's the city's role to do some price finding here and send to all the taxpayers in the city and offer to enter into a city managed registry, property owners who potentially be interested in locating [speaker not understood] comcast or the city itself. let's find out what the true cost is of putting this on private property. that is a key tenant of this memo drafted and signed in 2005. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, ms. aiello. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you so much for having this conversation, supervisor wiener. i think it's going to take a long time but it's way overdue. i'd like to say my name is andrea aiello [speaker not understood] and we've been working with dpw for over a year now in trying to consolidate those newspaper racks. there are so many empty newspaper racks in the castro/upper market district and we've been working very closely with the city. we did get one removed and i can't tell you how many likes on our facebook page when we got when it was taken out and personal thank yous. so, i think people in the neighborhood really underst

city may have. i do want to point out that in our audit opinion for 2012, we had two additional paragraphs to emphasize certain matters. the first one related to the solution of the redevelopment agencies as effective february 1st 2012. and the city had selected to become the successor agency for the development agency which is responsible for overseeing [speaker not understood] ~ of the activities. the second item of emphasis related to the [speaker not understood] that related also to the deliberation process, the state controller's office as well as the department of finance are responsible for reviewing the dissolution process and the distribution of any remaining assets to the city's [speaker not understood]. and because the process is still ongoing at the time of the issuance of the city's c-a-f-r, we wanted to point out that the results were unknown at the time. the second report that i want to go over is the report to the gao. this report included all the required communications that [speake

in other cities we filled requests. this is an example of the media and i didn't put the local journalism. they're national and international media sources. this is a short list of the cities that have started parklets of their own and you can see international cities like cape town where i was born. that is a photo of a cape town parklet. these are international cities and we get calls from others to start a program. >> actually supervisor wiener and i saw one in mexico and it's amazing one. >> we will add it to the list. there is a lot of curiosity within academia and journalism and the design profession about this program. i would say a few times a month we get a call from a grad student or city official that wants to start a program and to research the spaces. in san francisco where other cities have pilots up and running and even new york and l.a. and up for a while and there are 40 on the ground in san francisco. we have 15 or so that are pretty close and we are moving another 35 or so parklets forward. some won't

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

conference of mar and talk proudly of our diversity in this city, and how it helps me run this city. * mayors and now for lesbian, gay, and transgender individuals to take up the responsibilities and have the responsibility of other people's lives that they are responsible for in their official capacities, this would make mayor moscone and supervisor milk very proud of us. and in the week, perhaps less than a week, we have another historic opportunity for this country as we take up this opportunity of hopefully, we join together to see that marriage equality becomes the law of this land. [cheering and applauding] >> we have that opportunity to do so. and i think everybody who holds office or holds an appointed position in the city is proud to see this diversity. this is what we have worked so hard, so many struggles. and we still remind ourselves of the night of the assassination and what had occurred and how this city was so divided. i believe now that there is such a great unity. when we talk about diversity in the city, how that unity transforms itself. it really is part of our dn

this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and th

we have six centers in the city. three are them are in richmond and sunset area and we serve in total close to 300 children [speaker not understood] in the city. in richmond and sunset we have close to 120 kids. so, we have been serving the community to serve these families. we have head start program, by the way. when we have nationwide connection they work the head start program. i want to share one thing. we feel very, very gratitude to be in san francisco. because every time when we connect with those people nationwide, statewide, we couldn't believe how much resource we have in san francisco, how much we invest in early childhood education. so, that's a gratitude i really want to share with you, with all -- with the mayor, with supervisors, and all the departments. thank you for the support to our children and families in this community. [speaker not understood], i would like to share some comments, how do we do better here. i would like to see the community that we can continue invest in early childhood educati

the city attorney made a determination and i am not lying. you know, duty bound to up hole the law and it is correct. but, could there still be not enough of a... >> i guess... >> a major follow in order for there to be another violation. >> i see what you are saying, commissioner and i have different views as to whether the city attorney has the last so-called last word here. and i think and i am certainly willing to be persuaded that we are called to make an independent assessment here about what the right answer is. and to me, in this case, it does not matter because i agree with what the city attorney said in my mind. and i think that issue comes more to a head if we disagree with what a city attorney said. well, i was going on commission renne when he was saying that we could educate the commission. in that part of the education would be, it is not required but it is strongly recommended that you would get a written opinion from the city attorney to provide to the requestor of the information? i don't know if it means anything and, i don

i love the soul of the city and what makes any city great is diversity. all different classes of people and races coming together in some great magical blend. that is that i think is threatened by the fact we have the city too expensive to live in. >> you said ... in fact, wrote wrote a piece in the san francisco magazine back in october saying a lot of the young digital elite come here, get these jobs, they are paid astronomical amounts of money. it almost feels like here comes the bubble again, and yet they are able to put down money on a house where maybe a couple, you cited a teacher an a library yap wanted to buy a house but they couldn't find it. they were out bid. and this squeezes out the middle class, the teachers, the firemen, the police, the hairdressers, the nurses, all the people squeezed out of their homes. >> that's right. the city becomes more one dimensional. now the threat is that san francisco will become the bedroom community. the suburbia for silicon valley. you see the huge google buses and aming buses coming through the city and sti

and thanks to our city librarian, we will be extending library hours throughout our city. (applause) >> we are going to make san francisco an even safer city. we developed a six-year police staff and fire staffing plan to train san francisco's first responders. over the next two years ~ san francisco will hire 300 new sworn police officers with six new academy classes. and we will add 120 firefighters with three new fire academy classes. with with 35 construction cranes across our skyline, you can see public and private construction jobs being created every day. in fact, an estimated 223,000 jobs will be created over the next 10 years from city projects alone. for our part, we're making a sound investment of $25.1 billion in capital projects over the next 10 years through our city's ten-year capital plan. this proposed budget includes unprecedented levels of general fund sub poderth for these smart capital investments. ~ support $72 million in year one and $105 million in year two. thank you, president david chiu, for your collaboration on our city's 10 year capital plan t

we continue to be a great city. we're very proud of our partnerships and our solar companies and our service providers, out of their work. we're not stopping here with these milestones. we're going to heed the call of our governor. we're going to get to goals yet to be imagined, and i thank you for being here in our world class city to kickoff this inter-solar 2013. thank you for being here in san francisco. (applause) ... >> thank you very much. thank you everyone for those presentations in the beginning. we really appreciate you guys time and taking the time to come to the council. welcome back everyone. let's get started on the second half of our meeting. so next up we have action team number 7 of discussion and possible action item adopt in a resolution regarding guiding principles for the construction and affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities. and presenting is chip. oh, denise. denise and then chip. >> thank you chair. welcome. the mayor's disability council throughout the month has some

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

city attorney -- >> deputy city attorney job gibner. so you could -- i believe everybody within that hearing could be discussed at part part of the budget when the department comes back. >> okay colleagues let's file this and continue to talk about these items when ms. sue comes before us again. >> that's fine. >> motion to file number one without obsigz. so moved. items two and three are the budget so can i have a motion to continue to monday the 24. we do so without opposition. so moved. items number four and five regarding treasure island development authority and the office of community investment infrastructure and continue those to wednesday the 26. so moved. okay. >> mr. chairman i believe those are not on the agenda for wednesday. i believe those -- >> thursday. my apologize. motion to rescind the vote. okay. so we're going to do it for thursday. >> continue to thursday. >> okay. continue to next thursday. do that without opposition. so moved. item number six and seven have to do with the botanical garden so first i know supervi

we continue to be a great city. we're very proud of our partnerships and our solar companies and our service providers, out of their work. we're not stopping here with these milestones. we're going to heed the call of our governor. we're going to get to goals yet to be imagined, and i thank you for being here in our world class city to kickoff this inter-solar 2013. thank you for being here in san francisco. (applause) ... >> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your ho

our mayor and former mayor and city attorney and the people in the city attorney's office office and then the leadership in this city on the board of supervisors level per we're going to hear from 3 of our members of the board of supervisors we need to thank them for making san francisco this amazing place to live. ground zero in which so much energy comes and for them to obviously tell us congratulate on this city and statewide and a country you wide vicious. please welcome president chiu (clapping) >> what is great day. (clapping) i am honored to help represent the board of supervisors that included a man who was looking upon us today. at the top of those stairs is a statute a bust of a man named harvey milks (clapping) and harvey milk told us we had to have hope and that hope lives on today. (clapping) i want to take a moment just to - if everyone could look at the beauty of this crowd. everyone in this room came in here because san francisco has been a beacon of hope. i sat on the board when the law was made and a today, our supreme court has struck that allowing law down (clappi

city. one of the first things i did when i took office in 2011 was to request our city economist to do an impact study on nightlife and shows how it contributes $2.4 billion to our economy. and we at city hall making policy to treat nightlife as a nuisance to be managed and the purpose of that study among other thing was to make clear this is an important economic benefit and for jobs and for so many other economic purposes and something that should not bow -- be treated at all as a nuisance but something to key and address. it's not just an economic and strong driver in our city, it's really part of the cultural part of our city. and i will be honest that i have some concerns about where we are going in terms of our approach towards nightlife and what it means for the cultural essence of this city. we are seeing nightlife more and more under pressure for a variety of reasons and city hall in my view and my city government still takes an over reactive view towards nightlife instead of a mor

of refuge and a city of sanctuary for our city. the leadership from the bottom up from the grass roots organization has been really significant and i'm very proud to have been a part of this as well. you carry on that tradition as we fight to empower immigrants with comprehensive but humane and just immigration reform. thank you for always standing for principles and for having such a strong voice within our immigrant rights community here but also on a national level, thank you. [ applause ] just to close it off, supervisor avalos. >> one last statement, thank you for making us accountable. >> i would like to ask those from the immigrant defense committee to please stand up. [ applause ] thank you so much supervisor, avalos for this recognition and all of you for your courage and taking the leadership from immigrant communities and as you mentioned the san francisco defense committee came together at a critical time in our city where undocument youth were being turned over without having a day in court and without being able to in

we will be taking into account the whole city and city and county's financial well being, and it keeps this house in order, and it also will keep our bond ratings higher, so i would urge you to look at that one piece and make an amendment so there are safety factor there that will protect the city, the employees and the retirees. thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors. i am tom o'conner president of the local firefighters and i am here to support this effort for the unfunded liability and the firefighters we support this measure as we have done with other city measures to make sure we're responsibly paying for the benefits that we receive. the firefighters have worked with the city and we are not asking for additional funds from city workers who are giving more during the difficulties that arose in 2008. this measure will significantly address our rising unfunded retiree liability and it will save our city and tax payers money in the future and to us and to me this is a monsense measure that deserves wide support from this committee, the full board of supervisors and from s